Bristol is the home of Banksy and has some fantastic street art! Every summer the city celebrates this by holding Upfest, a festival with live exhibitions by graffiti artists from all over the world. I made this graffiti cake for Nacoa (The National Association for Children of Alcoholics), who were running a raffle at this year’s Upfest….
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Stack-of-books cake
For a colleague’s retirement, a friend and I made an epic cake shaped like a stack of books and covered with little icing animals. It’s the best cake I’ve ever made and I am so proud of it, I had to share it on here. Hopefully my tips will be useful if anyone wants to make…
Bundt cakes
Following on from National Bundt Day, which I have just discovered is on November 15th each year, it seems appropriate to write a post on bundt cakes. Lately I haven’t had much time to bake, but I have been experimenting with my new bundt tin, so here are a couple of the recipes I’ve tried. So…
Lunchbox granola bars
Just a quick update to say I’m still making my own granola cereal bars for work snackage. Since I found the basic recipe in my previous post, I’ve been making a batch of bars from whatever combo of dried fruit, nuts and seeds we have in the cupboard and these last a couple of weeks….
Homemade granola bars
Granola bars, cereal bars, breakfast bars, whatever you call them. They are an essential mid-morning snack for lots of us and I for one buy them a lot. There are endless flavours and varieties and they’re just so convenient – tasty little packets of energy so easy to just grab and go. And all those oats…
In search of the perfect recipe for ‘Ben’s Cookies’
Ben’s Cookies is a chain of cookie shops in England that bakes and sells the most amazing cookies! They use chocolate ‘chunks, not chips’ which results in deliciously melty, gooey cookies with a crisp, sugary crust. Every time I see one of these shops I can’t resist the urge to go in. Even if only to drool…
Pasta for dessert? Why not!
Recently a friend gave me a packet of Hotel Chocolat’s chocolate penne. There are surprisingly few recipes out there suggesting what to do with chocolate pasta. The packet recipe was for ‘Chocolate penne with smoked salmon and mascarpone’ – which I have tried once before with chocolate pasta and it was kind of disappointing… probably…
Mini pork, apricot and pistachio pies
Watching the Great British Bake Off has made me want to start baking things that are a little more challenging, to try and expand and improve my baking skills. I saw the recipe for these little pies in BBC Good Food magazine and thought they sounded delicious – perfect for a weekend picnic or a weekday…
Chinese pork potsticker dumplings
A friend of mine recently invited us round for dinner and cooked these delicious little dumplings, so I decided to have a go at making some myself. Although simple, making these is not a quick process and it’s definitely easier (and more fun!) with a helper or two. They are rather like Italian ravioli or…
Bread & butter pudding
When one has a glut of bread and a shortage of freezer space, what can one do with the stuff before it becomes stale/mouldy/uneatable? Bread & butter pudding is my answer, and this one turned out great! Most recipes for B&B pud seem to involve double cream, but I found this ‘low cal’ one which only…
briscuits 