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festive bakes
It's that time of year again... when I become so disorganised that I lump all of my festive baking into one blog post on Christmas Eve. YAY!Personally, I find it just isn't Christmas without...
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self saucing lemon pudding
I had 30 minutes to organise a pudding before World's Strongest Man came on tv this evening. I glanced at what was in the fruit bowl, flicked through my ever reliable Mary Berry Baking Bible and...
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2015 round up
Here we are again, at the end of December, somehow?! 2015 has been a difficult year for me personally, but it has ended much more positively than it started so things are generally on the...
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Happy new year! And a birthday cake.
Happy new year, folks! I have finally come back to life to write my first post of 2016. My eldest nephew's birthday falls in the first week of January so he's usually my first bake of the year. This...
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pastel freak brachiosaurus
My first finished make of 2016: a knitted dinosaur. As you do.My brother gave me a "Knit your own Dinosaur" book for my birthday last year which has got to rank as one of my coolest presents. It's like...
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orange and passion fruit loaf
Finally, I've baked something. It's been a while. One of my friends mentioned that she had baked an orange and passion fruit cake last week and the flavour combination stuck in my mind. I then...
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ethnically diverse dropped scones
My Granny used to make the best dropped scones (or scotch pancakes, whichever name you prefer.) She cooked them on a gridle on her old Raeburn cooker and kept them warm under a teatowel on the cooling...
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pink dungaree shorts of dreams
I've always been a pink person. There was a brief period where I had a quarter life crisis tried to edit pink out of my wardrobe thinking it was time to dress in more "grown up" colours but it slowly...
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orange, almond and yoghurt loaf
Baking late at night is a bad idea, but sometimes you really want to have a cake ready for the next day (or for midnight munchies) so you go ahead regardless of tiredness. I was about to spoon the...
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Burnt sugar (caramel) cake
This was all that was left from my Mum's birthday cake at the weekend by the time I got the camera out. I thought I'd better include the recipe photograph for reference since the last few slices of the...
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groovy duvet rag pot holder
Perhaps not worth an entire blog post of its own, but I was pretty pleased with how my crochet rag (tea)pot holder turned out and thought it was a fun way of using up fabric scraps.As a last minute...
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sour cream coffee cake
A deceptive title as this cake contains no coffee whatsoever. It should actually be called "best ever cinnamon and pecan cake." Seriously, this is one of my favourite cakes I've baked in a long time....
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outer space star wars cake
It was middle nephew's birthday last week and he put in an order for a Star Wars theme cake involving a death star. Considering Mum and I still haven't seen any of the films (yeah, sorry, we prefer...
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salted caramel cake
I've finally jumped on the salted caramel bandwagon. How many years late am I?One of my brothers gave me the new Primrose Bakery book for Christmas (probably with some not so casual hints from my Mum,...
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nostalgic bakes: buns (fairy cakes)
I had grand plans for baking this Easter. Various recipes had been picked out to try, the baking cupboard was well stocked with chocolate mini eggs.... but when it came to the weekend I just couldn't...
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fit, sew, scream, repeat
Not only is this the current state of my bedroom floor, but also a fairly accurate reflection of my poor brain.Yet again I have fallen down the dark pit of bodice fitting doom. The bodice in question...
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chocolate and smartie cookies - take 1 & 2
I've been on a cookie kick this week and have used the same recipe twice with completely different results. The first batch didn't really spread out whilst baking, probably because I had added extra...
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knitted: pink cardigan
Ta-dah! I finished knitting my second cardigan last month. It's another cute Andi Satterlund pattern called the "sunshower cardigan" and like many of Andi's patterns it's constructed from the top down...
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birthday baking bonanza
Four birthdays in my family fall between the end of April and middle of May so a lot of cakes have been baked and consumed around here recently. My sugar intake became so severe at one point that I...
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knitted: steggy Steve
I've been so excited about sharing this project but had to wait until I handed it over as it was a birthday present. My brother turned the grand, grown up age of 30 this month and I thought he would...
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