So February is national bake for the family fun month, sounds great. Baking makes me happy and less stressed. During and since lockdown more people have been creative and have taken to baking which is amazing. Do you like baking with the family or creating your own new recipes?? It is fun getting the family […]
National Carrot Cake Day 2022
National Carrot Cake Day Do you like carrot cake?? There are so many recipes for carrot cake, you can even buy a packet one if you don’t have enough time and add ingredients to it. I add lots of ingredients to mine including coconut, obviously carrots, and walnuts Please see the recipe below Carrot Cake […]
Chocolate Cake Day
NATIONAL CHOCOLATE CAKE DAY YUM! I love chocolate cake, don’t you?? Chocolate cake is so popular you can have chocolate brownies, cupcakes, sponge cake, and the very popular chocolate drip cake to name a few. National Chocolate Cake Day is an unofficial holiday and is celebrated on the 27th January every year. The Americans have […]
Beer can appreciation day
So yesterday was National Pie Day, I love pie especially Apple Pie so tasty, especially if home made. Today is Beer Can Appreciation Day. There are so many beers in the world today, some are bitter and others are sweeter. I think it depends where you are in the world. I know that Cider from […]
New Cake Trends 2022
Just been reading about new cake trends this year. I am taking a look at last year and comparing it to this year. See below Over the last year 2021, we had bold and bright colours, hand-painted cakes, buttercream cakes, textured cakes, sprinkles, yes in different colours, and put on everything. Isomalt, dried flowers and […]
National Shortbread Day
National Shortbread Day Who doesn’t like shortbread? I love it? You can make all different types of shortbread? plain, chocolate, choc chips, raspberry, lemon, shortbread jammy sandwiches, shortbread hearts, and more. You can have one layer of shortbread or put a layer of buttercream on and have a sandwich or fresh cream in the middle […]
National Brownie Day
National Brownie Day Do you like Chocolate Brownies???? They come in all sorts of flavours today chocolate, double chocolate, white chocolate and raspberry, mint, milk and white chocolate, caramel just to name a few. Some people struggle to make brownies but it may be because they leave them in the oven too long and they […]
Christmas Handmade Chocolate Gifts
Christmas Handmade Chocolate Gifts I love Christmas, but it’s a busy time of year. I love making chocolate treats. My favourite is the chocolate houses filled with marshmallows or smarties. They look so pretty, I had a customer last year saying they didn’t open it until New year’s eve as it was so pretty decorated […]
National Pumpkin Day
National pumpkin day so many recipes to choose from. This is an easy soup, great for cold autumn nights. It can even be frozen I took this recipe again from http://www.bbcgoodfoodrecipes.com https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/spiced-pumpkin-soup-2 Spicy pumpkin soup I pumpkin about 1.5-2kg (save the seeds-toast them and serve with the soup 1 tbsp garam masala 2tsp ground […]
National Chocolate Cupcake Day
Today it’s National Chocolate Cupcake Day Do most people like chocolate cupcakes or plain vanilla ones? I like chocolate ones. How do you make chocolate cupcakes? How can you get them so chocolatey? Cupcakes are so popular now and can be decorated in lots of different ways Well here is my recipe Chocolate Cupcake Recipe […]