The perfect Saint Patrick’s Day recipe: Rachel Allen’s Beef, Guinness and Anchovy Pie Fourth installment of my series of five “Bake” by Rachel Allen recipes. Today I have made her Beef, Stout and Anchovy Pie with hot water pastry crust in honour of my fifth wedding anniversary. We’re not big Guinness drinkers so I foresee making this […]
Chocolate Vanilla Marble Cake
Chocolate Vanilla Marble Cake is essentially plain and chocolate sponge mixture swirled together. The cake should have been done in 40 minutes but needed another 15 minutes (covered in foil as the top was done). After further checks and 1 hour 10 minutes, the cake was done but had annoyingly worked it’s way into a […]
Emma Bridgewater factory shop
Five years ago I bemused my colleagues with news of a trip I’d taken to Stoke on Trent. I had spent a happy day with my husband viewing the bottle kiln at the Gladstone Pottery Museum (pictured above), with it’s cafe that serves tea and cake on Royal Winton Chintzware, several factory shops to salivate over […]
Oat Vanilla Shortbread Cookies
This month I’m baking five recipes from Rachel Allen’s “Bake” and my next offering is Oat and Vanilla Shortbread Cookies. I was very impressed with this recipe. Using the Magimix to make the cookie dough I left it in the fridge before taking my son to playgroup. When we got back they were just right for slicing […]
Sweet Potato Pecan Cake – Delicious Loaf Cake Recipe
Today I have baked sweet potato pecan cake. This month I’m baking five recipes from Rachel Allen “Bake”. I’m hugely fond of recipes using sweet potatoes so my first recipe baked from Rachel Allen’s “Bake” is Sweet Potato Pecan Cake. It’s called “bread” but is actually a cake in a loaf tin. It was a […]
Big Lunch Day Has Arrived
Today is the day when things finally came together. Although I had been up early helping make sure cars were removed from the street, moving my table onto the pavement and collecting a bulk order of sausages from the local butcher, it was not until 11.30 that it was time to put out my cupcakes. […]
The Big Lunch… 1 day to go, Making My Own Cake Stand
The Big Lunch is one day away Things are hotting up today. Having scattered various trays of cupcakes around the kitchen it is becoming obvious that I need a stand to put them on otherwise I will take over the table at tomorrow’s Big Lunch. I do not as yet own a cake stand so […]
Big Lunch Street Party Preparations
We all start somewhere – this was the first cupcake post on the site!
Kylie Minogue looks sexy in a pink tutu and stilettos
Ok so I might get in trouble for this. I don’t have copyright for this photograph obviously but I really want to share it as it inspired me to start making CAKE. Flicking through my regular copy of Elle magazine a glossy little insert for Spanish jewellery chain Tous fell out with “Kylie’s Party” on […]
