The Great British Bake Off is back, and as usual I am instantly addicted to it. Mary Berry is now a distant memory, and Prue is perfect in the role. As much as I loved the double act of Mel and Sue I have forgotten them, but Noel’s new hairdo is a little bit alarming. […]
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GBBO week 2 – chocolate hazelnut (Nutella) viennese whirls
For the second week running my newborn son (well, he’s over a month old now – where has that time gone?!) has allowed me to 1) watch the Bake Off, 2) bake my week’s challenge, and 3) blog about the challenge. Now if only he’d allow me to have more than a 3 hour stretch […]
GBBO challenge week 2 – Biscuits: oat shortbread Welsh dragon box with cat-shaped bourbon biscuits
I do love biscuits. My favourites, in no particular order, are chocolate coated malted milk biscuits, chocolate coated digestives, hob nobs, and boaster cookies. If we’re talking homemade then I love custard creams and shortbread (I don’t like shop-bought versions of these unless the shortbread is the proper buttery stuff), my nutella-stuffed chocolate chip cookies […]
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Foodie penpals – July 2015
Hey, hey, hey – foodie penpals is back! I am a little late with this month’s reveal, but that hasn’t stopped me eating my way through my delicious parcel. This month I was again paired with Selina from BigHomeBird (we were previously paired up in March 2014 and as you can read from that post, […]
GBBO 2014 challenge week 2 – savoury biscuits: oatcakes
I had high hopes for this week’s GBBO challenge – but I had a few kitchen disasters, so what I eventually ended up making was not what I had planned. But first the show – I was glad to see the return of the historical segment this week: this time about why ice cream cones […]
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Homemade chocolate digestives
One word: amazing. You MUST make these, and you will never buy a packet from the supermarket again. They are well worth the (not very much) effort. As you might expect from my many recent posts about the state of my kitchen, I actually made these a few weeks ago. I saw the recipe on […]
Christmas cookie exchange
Okay, I am finally letting go of Christmas (and all the treats – it’s so hard to going back to eating normally instead of twiglets for breakfast and Christmas cake before bed, but I am doing my best!), but before my seasonal posts end I just want to do one final one on the Christmas […]
You can’t beat a homemade custard cream
A couple of years ago, I had a bright idea to liven up everyone’s Fridays at work with “elevenses” – each team member would take turns to bake or buy a little treat for everyone else to have at 11am every Friday. I thought it would be a good chance to take 20 minutes out […]