Hello and welcome to ‘Mad Meringue Week’, every day for the next seven days I will be bringing you a different recipe and flavour of meringue, why you may ask, my reply, ‘why not’! It is Summer after all and even though meringues are perfect any time of the year,…
Milanese Di Pollo – Flattened Chicken Breast
I haven’t posted for a while, its not that I have forgotten you, its just that I am working on some very special summer recipes so that I can bring you some fun themed weeks. I am currently working on meringue and ice cream recipes and even though it is…
Limoncello and Strawberry Balsamic Sponge Cake
Only a few weeks ago my beloved Blog turned three years old, like I said in my birthday post, a lot has happened in three years, I have learnt so much, my baking has progressed and my Blog has become extremely popular. Over the years I have loved using Blogger…
Toscakaka – caramel almond-topped sponge
I was very excited about this new cookery book ‘Scandalicious Baking’ arriving in the post, because since ordering ‘Love Bake Nourish’ all the other new cookery books that I have brought just have not lived up to the gorgeous recipes in Amber Rose’s fabulous book. Its been very disappointing indeed….
Wildflower Honey & Edible Flower Cake
Bank holiday weekend and we have had some glorious sunny days, for me this signals a need to go out into the countryside to walk and to forage, then to bake, this weekend was no exception. Hubby and I seem to of fallen into a pattern of, while he watches…
Violet and Sultana Scones
Another new cookery book has arrived in the post, this one is Brighton Bakes by Jessica Haggerty, a lovely vibrant book, gorgeous photography and comes with that Brighton buzz and eccentricity. I love Brighton, I love how it openly invites everyone into its fold, how ever odd, however normal, who…
Blackberry and Rose Geranium Cake
Where has our beautiful weather gone??? I suppose we should know better, we are British after all, but we all long for the hot barmy summer days to come. The woods are full of bluebells and everywhere is looking green, lush and alive. I have just potted up and planted…
Spiced Fairy Cakes – with spelt flour
Its Saturday, its raining, Hubby is watching the F1, so where am I, of course, in the kitchen, where else would I be on a day like today! I decided I needed to bake a little treat to have with a cup of tea when we finally congregate as a…
Spelt Flour Victoria Sponge
I love cookery books, but I have to confess to being a bit of a cookery book snob. Book after book appear, but many are so boring and so repetitive. To make it onto my bookshelves a cookery book has to offer me something new, something exciting and something a…
Cannoli Cream Puffs
Yesterday for the first time, I had my first go at making choux pastry! If you regularly read my blog you will know that pastry of any kind is my weak area of baking and I promise on many occasions to beat it. Well now I have made a start…
