Classic crepes get added pizzazz as pancakes with fudge sauce and chopped hazelnuts. This post was originally commissioned by Morrison’s Supermarket as part of a series of pancake recipes. Serving Pancakes with Fudge Sauce for Mardi Gras It’s the beginning of Lent and you’ll want to make pancakes. But instead of boring lemon and sugar […]
Postcard from… Walthamstow Village
The eagle-eyed amongst you may have spotted that I omitted my Saturday Postcard last weekend. Since I was up until 3am working on the Arsenal birthday cake and baby shower cupcakes, I am posting this retrospectively at the same time as the Saturday Postcard for February 6th. The above shot was taken in Orford Road, […]
Charity Cupcake Sale for Bliss Premature Babies
I’m taking part in this year’s Kiss for Bliss campaign, “Cake A Difference” which will be raising money for premature and special care babies between 8-14 February. This is a cause close to my heart as you may have read in my HELLP syndrome story. After chatting to organisers of Ted’s toddler groups I have […]
Nanaimo Bars – Bitesize Version for UK Readers
The end of January marks my first outing with the Daring Bakers. I am proud to have added the Daring Kitchen badge to my side bar today and hope it this month’s challenge will be the first of very many. The January 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Lauren of Celiac Teen. Lauren chose […]
Blueberry Cinnamon Tarts
In the novel “Blackberry Wine”, Joanne Harris’ follow up to Chocolat, the protagonist inherits some bottles of fruit in alcohol that have been steeping for around forty years. Each time he drinks one of them, he has hallucinations and then needs to drink another bottle to see what happens next. Or at least that’s Joanne […]
Postcard from Walthamstow Marshes
Postcard from… is my series of Saturday mini-posts. Today’s postcard is from a bird hide in Tottenham Marshes, part of the Lee Valley Park which borders the 2012 London Olympics site. Selfridges food hall, the Designer’s Guild Warehouse Sale, St Tropez; there are many places I’d rather be than sat in a bird hide and […]
Chocolate Custard Puddings
What to do, what to do with a heap of egg yolks from my various macaron making disasters? (See what happened with the mince pie macarons if you haven’t experienced these yet). Having recently done a vanilla custard for mince pie ice cream I opted this month for some flavoured custards. First up is chocolate custard pudding. […]
Royal China Club with a toddler in baby reins
Writing about restaurants is not something I really do, mainly because with a two year old, I rarely venture anywhere more imaginative than various branches of Gourmet Burger Kitchen and Pizza Express with their child friendly packs of crayons and high chairs. The envelope was being pushed last Sunday with a trip to the plush […]
Cake A Difference for Bliss
Gel food colouring has infinitely improved my confidence making icing. After the problems I’d had getting the right colours when making the Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake, I decided to invest in some gel food colouring. Mine are little pots of Wilton gel food colouring which come in a box of eight colours. They cost […]
Postcard from… Ghent Belgium
This weekend’s Saturday Postcard comes from Ghent in Belgium, one of the larger towns in the Flemish part of the country. On a weekend trip on the Eurostar we were visiting one of my former college friends who at the time was living in Waterloo, some 30 minutes south of Brussels. My first trip to Belgium […]
Very Hungry Caterpillar Cake with 24 Cute Cupcakes Body
This Very Hungry Caterpillar cake was my first creation for a stranger. Someone emailed a picture making a very hungry caterpillar cake showing a large cake for the caterpillar’s head and a trail of cupcakes. They asked if I could do something similar. I had more icing sugar than I would need but I know […]
Leek Goats Cheese Tart
I am fond of the word “quiche” as my Grandma Kitty used to remind me of an occasion when I embarassed her in Nuneaton’s Attleborough Co-op in around 1985:
Grandma at deli counter: “I’ll have some of that quit-chee please”
My 11 year old self: “Grandma! It’s keeeesch!”
