I was recently approached by the coffee shop in my husband’s office complex to trial a new carrot cake for them. Their current supplier is stopping the carrot cakes at the end of the year so they need a new supplier. I was given this recipe by my mother and with a name like this [...]

Finally… I must apologise for the delay in getting this recipe out. I have been rather slack in getting blogs done, but it’s been swirling around in my mind. This is a recipe I just have to share! This recipe is mostly easy. The only hard part is to actually put the stuffing in the [...]

Christmas is just around the corner and the ‘Who to buy gifts for’ lists are getting longer and longer. Let me take some of the stress away from you and supply you with yummy Pillow Biscuits packaged in 3 different size containers with a pretty Christmas ribbon to glam it up.

I like curry. I have a mouth like a baby, but I like the spice combinations, not the heat! Thankfully there are more and more recipes that are coming out that are flavourful without feeling the need to blow the roof of your mouth through your brain. My mother grew up with Indian style curries, [...]

A couple of weeks ago I was hosting two tables at a ladies breakfast. Along with the decorating and being there on the day to make sure that the ladies were comfortable and happy we also had to provide a plate of savoury and a plate of sweet eats. The sweet plate was easy. Some [...]

My first official wedding booking for a wedding cake and some other areas that I’m trying to help with where possible. This being the first official wedding cake or cakes (there might be 3 of them), I of course decided to do trial versions and also to practice some different versions of the icing/decorations. Firstly [...]

So the Silwood Icing Course part 2 is now over. Fingers crossed that we will soon be enjoying another part time class with Silwood centering around Christmas. We learnt how to make marzipan roses as well as chocolate moulded roses: These were incredibly fiddly and the chocolate roses were very sticky. All in all, I [...]