Another chocolate cake, really !!! But can you have too many ??? I don’t think so, especially when your Husband and one of your Best Friends, (you know who you are), love chocolate cake and sometimes it is nice to try other recipes, even though my Fudge Cake is still…
Custard Cream Bars
Now I am not sure how to describe these Custard Cream Bars, they were not what I expected, but you know me, I just love scouring the internet for new recipes, I love something a little different, but I must admit that the downside of finding recipes on Pinterest is…
Chocolate and Strawberry Cake
The sun is shining and my thoughts turn to Afternoon Tea in the garden and of course scrumptious cake ! Recently Olly and I popped into The Cake Shed in Tunbridge Wells and are now totally addicted, the sandwiches and range of tea choices are amazing, but what is really…
Old Fashioned Cherry Cake
It was my birthday on the 8th January and I had such a wonderful day and was spoilt rotten. Hubby and I have been together coming up for 9 years this year and he has always taken the day off for my birthday so that we can spend the day…
Chocolate Layer Cake
I wasn’t going to add this recipe, it is a great chocolate cake, but I do have so many cakes already on here. I did think it would be fine to just keep it in the magazine and fish it out when I needed it, but I have baked it…
Happy 3rd Birthday Gelsomina’s Cucina
Three years ago today I sat in my kitchen and wrote my very first blog post! The idea at the time, was to bring together all our families favourite recipes in one easy to access place. Simon had left home and would often ring me for cooking advice and recipes,…
A nice surprise in the post
I received a nice surprise in the post the other day, at first I thought what a strange thing to send to someone who bakes all the time, never buys shop cakes and would be highly critical of a cake that came in a tin! Well you will be pleased…
Devil’s Food Cake
Well yesterday was my Birthday and Hubby promised me a whole weekend off and promised to spoil me like a Princess. He kept to his word and I didn’t have to lift a finger all weekend, he did the washing, the school ironing, the meals, it was fantastic. On the…
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…
Apple Crumble – Happy 21st Birthday Stephen
25th April 2011 was my gorgeous Son Stephen’s 21st Birthday, I was determined to celebrate as a family but also realised at that age you do need to let them do their own thing, so the weekend of his birthday he celebrated with his friends and now finally this week…
