Daring Bakers - Lets go Nuts for Donuts
The October 2010 Daring Bakers challenge was hosted by Lori of Butter Me Up. Lori chose to challenge DBers to make doughnuts. She used several sources for he...
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Soup-er!
We’ve started getting an organic fruit and veg box delivered weekly from East Coast Organics, as we were getting sick of the rubbish choice and quality at ou...
Adding a Scottish Twist - Cheese and Haggis Scones!
Watching the “Great British Bake Off” on TV recently got me thinking about scones - and whether I could do better than some of the contestants, or just wheth...
Daring Bakers - Sugar Cookies
The September 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Mandy of “What the Fruitcake?!” Mandy challenged everyone to make Decorated Sugar Cookies based on ...
One handed blogging and baby winding!
So baby Martha is here and has turned our world upside down - but in a beautiful, cuddly, wonderful sort of way (admittedly with frequent bouts of crying, si...
Jono’s Great Butterbeer Experiment - Part 1
Hey folks, here’s a post written by my culinarily more imaginative other half… enjoy!The great Butterbeer experiment started when Ruth and I watched Harry Po...
I’m back!
So… it has been a shockingly long time since I posted anything. Since November. Which is over 4 months ago. And coincided with the time I started to really s...
Darink Bakers November Challenge - Cannoli
So, I’m getting off to a bad start for this month’s Daring Bakers challenge - I’ve just realised this was supposed to be posted yesterday - oops! Better late...
Vampire Fairy Cakes
It’s Halloween today - how do I know this? Because at the centre where I was teaching my music classes this morning there were kids in fancy dress - vampires...
The Daring Bakers Challenge - French Macaroons
Sadly I find myself having to write this post about a baking failure. And not a one off - a repeated failure! October was my first month participating in the...