Cake-Life Balance: Yes; Blog-Life Balance: No, Not Really

Most of a month has gone by without another blog, for which I must apologise. There are no real excuses, just the pressure of conflicting calls on my time. I did successfully complete the Prudential Ride London 100 and many thanks for the sponsorship and messages of encouragement. It has been so long since I…

Achieving a Cake-Life Balance

This post is by way of a begging bowl. In three Sundays’ time, 30 July 2017, I am planning to ride 100 miles in aid of Prostate Cancer UK. If you are able to donate anything, I would be very grateful: please follow the link posted at the bottom of this post. Why am I…

The End of a Chapter

It has been a little while since I last blogged. I didn’t appreciate how much time and effort blogging requires, so hats off to those of you who manage to blog regularly, let alone frequently. I have no real excuse, just life’s demands getting in the way. Anyway, on with the show. So when I…

Two Old Friends and One New

Three more cakes done from Chapter One of Mary Berry’s Baking Bible in my efforts to bake the book from A to Z (or Genesis to Revelations perhaps). The three bakes were Cappuccino Cake, Lemon Yoghurt Cake and the classic Battenburg Cake. First to the new friend, Cappuccino Cake or more perhaps more accurately in this…

Swiss Rolls – 3 Sweet & 1 Savoury

Technically, the savoury one was a roulade, but it was probably the best looking one so I’m going to keep it in. As you may or may not know, I decided to bake Mary Berry’s Baking Bible, cover to cover and I had reached the point where there are three Swiss roll recipes (more about…

A Brace of Sponge Cakes

You can’t have too much of a good thing, right? Apparently not correct; sponge cake may be good but coffee sponge cake gets the thumbs down from my family. Continuing my efforts to bake everything in Mary Berry’s Baking Bible, cover to cover, I moved on to cake no. 3, which is a coffee sponge.…

Easter baking

My quest to bake everything in Mary Berry’s Baking Bible continues apace with some Easter baking: Hot Cross Buns and Easter biscuits. I have baked hot cross buns before, although I’ve never bothered with the pastry crosses. To be honest, I don’t think I’ll bother with them again. They’re a bit of a faff at…

The Classic of Classics

Ok, so this is my second blog, in which I intend to share my baking adventures, including my self-imposed challenge to bake all the recipes, mostly in order, in Mary Berry’s Baking Bible. I should probably explain that the first chapter is Classic Cakes and consists of the author’s takes on go-to cake recipes. It…

First Blog: The How, What, Who & Why

This is my first blog, so how did I arrive at the momentous (or not) decision… I decided I needed a new baking challenge and it felt like a good opportunity to get better acquainted with the tinterweb thing. So,  first to the baking. I have been baking since I was a small girl, mostly…