SANTA CLAUSE IS COMING TO TOWN!! It’s December, Christmas is round the corner and it’s bloody cold outside. What can be better than snuggling up in your jim jams with a steaming cup of hot cocoa (the answer is nothing). The following recipe is for a large batch of hot chocolate for the family or […]
Who doesn’t love a bun? Iced buns, chelsea buns, buns of steel… So we decided to make some christmas ones because everything should be a better, christmassy version at this time of year.These are a festive take on the traditional chelsea bun, we’ve swapped the currants for dried cranberries and added some more spices and […]
Now that it’s getting into the holidays and Christmas is round the corner, it’s time to decorate your already baked and fed Christmas cake. If you’ve not made one yet, there’s still time, you just won’t have as long to feed and mature it. This post has the recipes for all the basic components of christmas […]
We love pizza and we love mac & cheese… so why not combine the two? So here’s the logic… pizza has cheese on it, and mac & cheese has cheese in it therefore it can go on top of pizza…. because cheese and cheese. It goes without saying that this recipe isn’t exactly diet friendly… […]
So, WE LOVE CHEESE. And we find no cheese board is complete without bread and some good chutneys. Today we have decided to make a batch of onion chutney with a bit of a kick ready for all the Christmas activities (and cheese eating). Rather than your everyday red onion chutney we have decided to […]
So halloween is coming up, and there are pumpkins everywhere! We love to carve them but hate how wasteful it is to just through away all the pumpkin you scoop out, so this year we used our pumpkin to make some soup. And you can’t have soup without bread. So after meticulously scouring the internet […]
So its been 2 weeks, we know, you’re all over the bake off finishing… but we aren’t okay?!? So we made mille feuille this week as an attempt at sweet, sweet nostalgia for our favourite program. Mille Feuille is french for ‘a thousand leaves’ or something like that, but all we really care about is that […]
So the great british bake off is over, and nobody really knows what to do on a Wednesday night, or with their lives for that matter… And therefore it’s unfortunately the end of our GBBO weekly inspired bakes, however we’ve decided to do all the bakes from the final because we can’t let go. This […]
It’s happened, its all over for another year, the winner has been crowned and massive amounts of cake baked and eaten. This week was the final of the Great British Bake Off, which for us means lots of excitement and dreams of yummy showstoppers. (if you have been living under a rock since 8pm on […]
So it’s quarter final week in the bake off tent and things are getting tense. So we decided to set ourselves the challenge of the technical bake, Mokatines. Let’s just start by saying we thought this challenge would be a lot more easy than it was, when the show aired we realised it would be a […]
Towards the beginning of our blog, we made Earl Grey & Lemon Shortbread & the flavour combination was great, so for our Tea Party extravaganza we have converted the shortbread into a cake. Rather than doing a standard cupcake we have gone for mini sandwiches, as we felt there would be too much icing with a […]
So it was Victorian week on the bake off (otherwise known as gelatine week) and although we were very tempted by an attempt at a Charlotte Russe, we couldn’t resist making some little mini pies. This week Tamal, our baby boy, got star baker which we feel has been a long time coming but finally […]
Here’s another of our Tea Party bakes! A tasty tomato and feta focaccia that is perfect for cutting into thin strips and sharing out. This meant it worked perfectly on the tea party table as a tasty savoury treat to be eaten on its own or with dips, chutneys or cured meat. Focaccia is a […]
Naomi, the guest or honour at our tea party, is a huge fan of chocolate and peanut butter both on their own and together (and when I say huge, I mean huuuuge). So we thought what better cupcakes to make than peanut butter and chocolate combination! These are similar to our Kinder Bueno cupcakes as they […]
Week six on the bake off was pastry week! It started off with the signature dish, a frangipane tart, packed with delicious flavour combinations and a few soggy bottoms… Followed by a cypriot ‘flaouna’ for the technical challenge, a cheese & raisin filled pastry covered in sesame seeds, interesting? The recipe calls for mahlepi and […]
This recipe is a vegetarian twist on a sausage roll. After our Breakfast Sausage Rolls were such a huge huge hit with our family & friends, for Naomi’s Tea Party we thought we would create a vegetarian version of a sausage roll to go along side the meat lover’s version. The falafel is a traditional […]
We find it hard to say no to ice cream, so when this weeks showstopper challenge involved exactly that we knew what we’d be making for this weeks GBBO post. The dairy-free element proposed a challenge but we used coconut milk, which is dairy free and still has the same creamy taste you will get from […]
Week 4 of The Great British Bake Off already and it is DESSERT WEEK. Oh the joy, who doesn’t love a good pudding. This weeks technical challenge was an Austrian classic.. the Spanische Windtorte, haven’t heard of it? Neither had we.. But I guess that’s why its called a challenge. We also decided not to do […]
We needed a quick recipe for a birthday cake. Rather than do something too basic like just chocolate or a victoria sponge, we did a twist with some orange extract – A chocolate orange cake if you will, a classic combination. This is a very quick & easy bake, great to satisfy a chocolate craving when […]
So it’s week 3 of the bake off already and we’ve discovered our favourites (and our not-so-favourites…). In honour of bread week, we’ve taken up the challenge of the signature and are making a quick bread, going for a fairly traditional cheddar, garlic and rosemary soda bread. We knew we’d be in for a treat with bread […]
So it’s week 2 of the bake off and we’re still getting over excited by all the baked goods and innuendos. This week for our bake off themed bake we decided to attempt the technical challenge, Arlettes. Arlettes are a type of french biscuit made from puff pastry, rolled up with sugar and cinnamon. Once […]
Following on from the first episode of Great British Bake Off, we have been inspired to do a bake each week from one of the three rounds – Signature, Technical Challenge or a Show Stopper. Week 1 – Cake week, Today we have chosen to do a classic Madeira cake, because who doesn’t love madeira cake? Moist, buttery […]
Who doesn’t bloody-well-love a kinder bueno?! We certainly do, so we figured making our favourite chocolate bar into a cupcake was a foolproof idea. We took the 3 key components of a bueno (chocolate, the filling and wafer) and translated them into a chocolate cup cake with hazelnut frosting and wafer as decoration (to make […]
We are both HUGE fans of peanut butter – sit there eating it out the tub with spoon kind of love. Could live on peanut butter, could live for peanut butter etc etc. Well today we are using hazelnuts to make homemade hazelnut butter and seeing just how good homemade butters are, so here goes… […]