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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I made a delicious quiche

When I turned 30, I went to Devon on a week-long patisserie course at the Ashburton Cookery School.

It was a lovely way to spend a week; there were 8 of us in total and the tutor was really friendly. We were based in a beautiful kitchen and the tutor demonstrated various things, which we would then make. The small class size meant that the tutor was always around to help, which was so valuable – as a trained chef, his techniques and tips were great. Continue reading “I made a delicious quiche”

A very lovely chocolate fudge cake

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!

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Chocolate covered gingerbread for World Chocolate Day!

Now it’s World Chocolate Day on July 7th, so I thought it would only be right to crack open a Cadbury cook book to celebrate.

This is actually my mum’s cookbook, and I remember always loving the look of the biscuits on the front cover. I’m not sure why it’s taken me until age 33 to make them, but never mind.

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I made a Guinness cake because I’ve got an iron deficiency

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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Pear butterfly cupcakes

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.

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Sweet toothers unite: Hummingbird bakery caramel cupcakes

I’ve been feeling a bit up and down recently due to lockdown, but after speaking to several people I think that’s pretty normal at the moment.

The other night when I couldn’t concentrate on reading a book or watching a movie (and that’s saying something because I’ve just got Disney+ and it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to me), I decided to make some cupcakes.

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Lockdown doughnut decorating!

Well this is a weird time for everyone isn’t it. I, like many people, have been socially distancing/self isolating for quite a while now, and now in the UK we are in lockdown.

I’ve been working from home since the 17th of March. It’s safe to say the novelty has worn off now and I’m running out of things to do in the evenings. There is only so much Netflix one person can watch – although everyone’s talking about Tiger King, so that’s one I might start watching.

As well all know, everyone bought all the food, because they were worried about all this. I’ve been wanting to do some baking, but I couldn’t because until a couple of days ago I couldn’t get hold of any eggs.  
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