Another chocolately offering for you all. Who doesn’t like salted caramel? Who doesn’t like rich, squidgy chocolate brownies? Well, if you don’t I personally think you’re a bit strange!! These are fantastic – you definitely get a proper chocolate hit with these. Just be careful not to eat the whole lot at once! Continue reading
The busiest time for birthdays for my family is from September running all the way through to February (with a few more birthdays scattered throughout the rest of the year). This has its pros and cons. It means that I need to be really inspired, present-wise, to make sure I have something to give everyone for both Christmas and birthday, but on the plus side it means I generally get to eat and sometimes make lots of cake. Continue reading
My sister asked me to make my nephew’s Christening Cake a few months ago which I was slightly nervous about but very excited to do. I spent ages trawling through loads of recipes and ideas of what I could make and came across a delicious looking chocolate wedding cake recipe which sounded perfect. I then had to decide how to decorate it. Continue reading
If you want a really moist, light and tasty chocolately sponge (and you love Oreos), this is cake to pick. It was very much a hit and lasted really well, despite our best efforts to demolish it quickly! My husband loved it. Continue reading
Happy Halloween everyone. Here’s a relatively straightforward, yet impressive, very tasty and very chocolately spider web muffin recipe to put you in a spooky mood. Continue reading
These naughty treats are not linked to any particular country – I just thought they were delicious when I tried them in a lovely London café (Bea’s of Bloomsbury) and was very excited when I found they’d shared the recipe on their website Continue reading
I love Jamaican Ginger Cake. We used to have it loads growing up – the dark, sticky, squidgy McVities version – innocent looking in it’s plastic wrapping, but always tasting delicious Continue reading
This post is for my lovely friend Jen, who I don’t see enough of. We caught up last week and I mentioned that I was doing this blog and she told me I had to make this cake, so I looked it up, thought it sounded absolutely delicious and made it!! Thank you Jen! Continue reading
What a lovely day. We’ve been at my parents house for a fantastic massive family Boxing Day lunch – with 20 or so family members, so pretty busy. I volunteered to bake a cake and decided to make a massive one Continue reading
My sister and I took our Mother to Vienna for a birthday treat five years ago. It was her 60th and we wanted to celebrate in style with her. It was early December when we went and it was ridiculously cold. Continue reading
