Valentine’s Day has rolled around, and once again I find myself single.
I haven’t given up hope though! Two smiley faces in one email is definite flirting isn’t it?
Sigh.
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Cooking from my Calendar – February
February’s recipe on the calendar is chocolate hazelnut cupcakes.
Now. I am a fan of chocolate, I am a fan of hazelnuts (well, Nutella which is what is in the icing) and I am a fan of cupcakes so there’s not really a lot that can go wrong here is there?
No! No there isn’t. These were great so this is basically just a lot of pictures of them.
Chocolate Orange madness!
So, before Christmas I went to Tesco. They had an offer on Terry’s Chocolate Oranges which was something ridiculous like ‘buy one get two free’. I saved £4!
I told the lady at the checkout that I liked her optimism when she pointed out that the best before date wasn’t until March.
The cake that almost never was
I made a cake for someone at work because he was leaving one department and going into another one. I wanted to make a drip cake with mini doughnuts on the top.
I had been so organised up to this point – the only thing left to do the night before the cake was due was the chocolate ganache for the drip and the mini doughnuts.
However, the drip part didn’t really work and I wasn’t happy with the cake. Maybe I’m too picky but I like things to look as good as possible! So anyway, here is what happened, via notes written on my phone throughout the experience, the evening before the cake was due and after chocolate ganache ruined my life…
Bakes Box: Fully Loaded Cookie Cups
I’m back! After a short hiatus, during which I lost the baking bug a little bit, I’m back and ready for 2018. Happy New Year to all (four – hi mum) of my readers!
I’m going to aim to post on here twice a month, but I have a few posts in draft from last year that are ready to go, so for the first couple of months of the year it might be a bit more than that.
Let’s kick off 2018 with one of those posts – I made these last year and they were the third of my Bakes Box kits. The second was a Smores kit that I didn’t end up posting on here, but I had a bit of a disaster with the marshmallow anyway. So, here we go – onwards and upwards into 2018…
I’ve found a brownie recipe that works!
I have tried numerous times to make brownies and all the recipes I have tried have been a failure. I’m talking raw-in-the-middle failure.
I know they are supposed to be squidgy, but not raw!
I even bought packet mix once (I know, I know) to see if that worked, and it didn’t. Still raw.
I had given up hope, until Mary Berry (who else?) saved the day.