A hint of mint

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.

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Adventures in gingerbread – part one

Welcome to another mini-series on the blog. My previous track record with this kind of thing isn’t great – I didn’t ever finish ‘cooking from my calendar’ and I think I might have lost the actual calendar now, whoops.

Hopefully I can cope with a two-part series though. At the time of writing, it might be a three-part series, I haven’t decided yet.

And if you hadn’t guessed, it’s all about gingerbread! Woo woo woo woo woo!

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