On Saturday I had my Mum & Dad over for the afternoon, Mum is diabetic now but absolutely loves my cakes, so I know I shouldn’t but I couldn’t resist baking for her, well it is Christmas! I found this lovely recipe for the Eccles Sponge Cake in the January…
Christmas Cake – Delia’s Recipe
Christmas rituals can offer great reassurance in a fast changing world, making the mincemeat and Christmas cake, choosing a theme for the family get together dinner, picking out and decorating the tree, all feed the air of anticipation and excitement leading up to the big day. Over the years, as…
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…
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…
Mini Beef Wellingtons
Hubby and I have a rather large family, 6 Children, 5 of my own and the lovely James, who we call our Son makes 6! Now the three eldest may of left home, but with regular visits from Stephen and Max my daughter Rosie’s boyfriend, the house always seems to…
Bayonne Ham Omelette
To say that Hubby and I are competitive, especially in the kitchen, would be a slight understatement. We do admit that we both bring different things to the table, or kitchen, so to speak, but touch on the others territory and there will be trouble and tears before bedtime! Hubby…
Red Velvet Cake
If you have brought Octobers edition of Good Food you are in for a treat as Edd Kimber has a fantastic section in there showcasing his heavenly cakes. You may remember Edd from last years Great British Bake Off, I was a total addict to the show last year and…
Sugar Saucers
Finding a good cookie recipe is not easy and I have tried many, but this one is just lovely, chewy on the outside, soft in the middle and full of flavour. Its the sort of recipe that you can play with and have a lot of fun with, depending on…
Caramel Croissant Pudding
My Son Stephen has come to stay for a couple of weeks, this is because he has started a new job and while he settles into it I thought it would be nice for him to be spoilt a little by his Mummy, yes I know he is 21, but…
