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Well today we’ve opened up the old Cadbury’s cookbook again. Last time I did that was for World Chocolate Day and I made the chocolate covered gingerbread from the front cover of the book.
Today I have delved further I to the book, into the cake section, and I’m making a chocolate fudge cake!
Now I made it in a ring tin because that’s what the book says, but halved the recipe because my tin was smaller than the one the book specifies. I just did the all in one method too for minimal washing up!
Yes, you read that correctly.
For the third time in my life I’ve been put on iron tablets, and I basically did nothing for the first two weeks of June because I was so tired. Obviously I am not eating enough spinach.
Anyway, there’s been a rumour flying around for years that Guinness is full of iron… I think it’s been disproved now to be honest.
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One of my very dear friends gave me a cupcake book about 10 years ago, and I’m ashamed to say I haven’t made anything from it.
I’ve read it a lot and the pictures are beautiful, but I’ve never given anything a go. It’s an overlooked book in my collection.
Of course this needs to be put right so I picked the prettiest cakes and made them. They are pear butterfly cakes.
Ho ho ho and Happy Easter. I hope everyone managed to have a nice long weekend despite the strange situation we currently find ourselves in.
I decided to cheer myself up and make Easter Bunny cupcakes! I had seen these when googling ‘Easter cakes’, and I thought they looked adorable.
It was Christmas Eve babe, in the drunk tank kitchen…
And I made snowman cupcakes!
Yes I was baking away on Christmas Eve, because why not?
I’ve been at home for Christmas, eating too much and doing some baking, and it’s been very nice.
And just like that, we’ve made it to part two of the gingerbread series – a day I’m sure many of us thought would never come.
I’m still deciding whether or not this will be a three-part series. If you haven’t read part one, please do pop over here and have a read about my gingerbread stars.
This blog is all about gingerbread cupcakes! Which I am making because I have some adorable gingerbread man sprinkles!
It’s more cupcakes on the blog this week! This week we’re baking from the Hummingbird Bakery’s ‘Cake Days’, and the recipe for these cupcakes comes from the Christmas section.
This is one of this recipes where a lot happened. There were ups, there were downs, there was a peppermint essence infused headache. Also I’m not a huge fan of candy canes to be honest, but they seem to be synonymous with Christmas.
**Bonus Christmas content alert that isn’t really Christmas content but there is a Santa emoji on the main picture so it still counts!**
On a whim one day, when looking through my Hummingbird Bakery Cake Days book (which has been, and will be, featured a lot during my Christmas content), I stumbled across a recipe for apple streusel cake.
I think this was one of those days where I wanted to make a cake to take to work, but I wanted something quite straightforward that wouldn’t take hours and didn’t need decorating.
I liked it because it looked a bit like apple crumble, and I don’t think you can go wrong with apple crumble.
Ho ho ho and here we go; it’s November so it’s nearly Christmas!
I flipping LOVE Christmas. It’s my favourite time of the year, and from October I’m ready and waiting to get Halloween out of the way so I can get excited about the build up to Christmas.
Apparently it’s not acceptable to be excited until Halloween is out of the way, which frankly is a shambles. I say when the shops start putting their Christmas stuff out, it’s fair game. I made these in October, because I don’t follow the rules.
*I’ve literally just realised this was in my drafts and hasn’t been published. It’s now October 2019… so this blog is about 18 months old. Whoops. Enjoy!*
I made a Pokeball cake last summer for my nephews.
If you’re a fan of lots of pictures in blog posts then this one probably isn’t for you.
I haven’t detailed the bits like crumb coating mainly because I forgot to take pictures… and there are only so many pictures you can take of a Pokeball anyway!
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