Why can’t I make red velvet cakes?!

Red velvet cakesAfter many years in the wilderness, trying and failing to make red velvet anything, I thought I had succeeded thanks to a bake at home kit from Crumbs and Doilies!

I’m not kidding when I say I’ve tried to make various red velvet bakes about 100 times. Well, ok, 5 times. And every time, EVERY TIME, the bakes aren’t red. No matter which method I use, which recipe I use, which food colouring I use, I just get brown red velvet cakes. And brown red velvet cakes are a problem because they’re not red, and ergo can’t possibly count as red velvet cakes.

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Picture post: things I’ve made on courses

Pastries picture postWhen browsing through my phone the other day, I found a load of pictures of things I’ve made when I’ve been on baking courses.

This led me to reminisce about going to other places, which we obviously can’t do at the moment. So I thought I would put some of my favourite pictures into a blog post.

Where I can remember what they are, I’ve added that. But there’s quite a few that I have no idea as these courses were at least three years ago.

Anyway, I hope you like these pictures. Next year I’m going to make an effort to do more things like this. I feel a bit cooped up at the moment, I don’t know about you! But it is what it is and it’s not changing at the moment.

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Adventures in gingerbread – part two

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!

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Christmas cupcakes!

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.

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I made Easter cakes!

Hello! I’ve been away for so long I forgot how to log on. But here we are, back again.

I’ve been away for a bit because I just couldn’t really deal with doing any baking to be honest – I think it was all anxiety related.

BUT, I made some cakes last week, for a cake sale that we did at work to raise money for Asthma UK.

Here is what I made…

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