For me, Christmas is not Christmas without a wrapped polygon shaped box appearing under the Christmas tree. This tradition goes back to my Father, who just loves Turkish Delight, every year my Mum would buy him a box for Christmas Day, she would always have to hide it as Dad…
Christmas Cake – Angela Nilsen Recipe
I haven’t made a Christmas cake for a few years now as I am the only person in the house that likes it, but I really miss the tradition of making it, the aroma wafting around the house conjuring up that first excitement of Christmas and I miss decorating the…
20 minute ‘blitz & blend’ Mincemeat
For those of you that thought my Delia mincemeat recipe was rather long winded, fiddly and basically you just do not have the time to faff around making homemade mincemeat, when you can just pop to the shops and buy a jar…. here is the simplest recipe ever, very quick,…
Stollen Ring
I have to admit that I have never tried Stollen, I have seen it in the shops but it never took my fancy. Then I saw this recipe, the picture looked so nice that it inspired me to give it a go and I am so pleased that I did,…
Pumpkin Pie
Every year my Mum grows a gorgeous patch of pumpkins and part of our Halloween excitement and ritual is going over and picking out the biggest one to carve. Every year I am taken a back to how beautiful they look growing in the field and just how huge they…
Homemade Mincemeat
Its hard to think about Christmas in early November but if you love to bake at Christmas I am afraid you have to be prepared. The Christmas cake needs baking and feeding with booze, mincemeat needs time to mature and develop flavour and sloe gin needs weeks to be perfect…
Pumpkin with Crispy Chorizo Soup
This is going to be a very short post as I wanted to get the recipe for this delicious pumpkin with crispy chorizo soup on as soon as possible, just incase some of you had some left over pumpkin or hadn’t yet got round to carving your pumpkins. Every year we…
I love all things baking related.
Everyone can bake, you only need a few basic pieces of equipment, but if you love baking and I mean really love baking it really takes over your life, I think about baking 24/7, I watch every programe I can, read every magazine, have a vast collection of cookery books…
Chocolate Sour Cream Fudge Frosting
Now here is the recipe for the chocolate sour cream fudge frosting for Luca’s Birthday cake, the recipe is also from ‘Baked in America’ and the frosting recommended in the book to compliment the cake. Of course you can use it on any cake you wish and it would be…
Coke Layers – Luca’s 10th Birthday Cake
As promised here is the recipe for the Coke Layers cake I made for Luca’s 10th Birthday, from the Outsider Tart’s fantastic book ‘Baked in America’. This is not the first recipe I have baked from this book, I have made their gorgeous Sugar Saucers, which are wonderful cookies the size…
