The ultimate crowd pleaser and super quick recipe to make - Melting Moments made with a twist using Almond flavour rather than vanilla. I use 3 types of almond flavour in these biscuits/cookies which are brilliant if you are looking for ...
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Joint 40th Birthday Cake with Teddy Cake Topper #BakeoftheWeek
If you follow me on social media (or you are in fact Clair & Andrew), you may have already seen me sharing this cake. I made it a couple of weeks ago to celebrate our good friends' 40th birthdays. I wanted to make their joint 40th ...
Mincemeat & Marzipan Wreath
Please tell me its totally fine to start Christmas baking with a vengeance? I'm loving pottering around the kitchen at the moment. The days are so dark and cold here in Merseyside so my kitchen is a haven with lights & heating on full ...
Giant Battenburg
We've had a bit of a celebration in our house this week. One that even made me crack open the oven. Millie went to GB trials in Bristol the weekend before last and was offered a place on both the Junior and Senior GB Synchronised Swimming ...
How to Marzipan a Cake #CakeKnowHow
I've always said there's no point knowing something if you are not willing to pass that knowledge on. There are no huge secrets to cake decorating but sometimes its just difficult to know where to look for answers. This is the first in a ...
20 Minute Christmas Marzipan Mince Palmiers
The truth is, it will probably take longer to write up this recipe than it did to make it. I know you are probably looking at the photos, thinking how unpretty they are but they are emergency mince pies, remember. Its how they taste and ...
Christmas Tree Cupcakes
I've enjoyed having a play with some Christmas Cupcakes this week. I'd forgotten how time consuming they can be though - and how quickly they get demolished in our house. These are batch 2 - The first lot got eaten before having their ...
Walnut and Coffee Battenburg
I'm not for a minute going to suggest that this was an easy cake to assemble. I think that's blatantly obvious from the pictures (taken in the dark, trying to disguise the many lumps and bumps). What I can say about this Coffee & Walnut ...
Mini Marzipan Birds’ Nests Tutorial
Even I think these are cute! Tiny mouthfuls of marzipan with a mini egg all disguised as Birds' Nests. For people that are rather fond of grammar, I've had massive arguments with myself about where the apostrophe goes! I've was set the ...
Stollen Recipe
Stollen is a German fruitcake said to sometimes contain marzipan - Sometimes??? Every time in our house. I wasn't sure whether it was classed as a bread or a cake but my research has declared that it is most definitely CAKE. All other ...
