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31/08/2015
Inspired by last weeks GBBO, this weekend I made a no-bake lemon cheese cake! Very simple but Y-U-M-M-Y!!
01/08/2015
Where is the year going?! August already! I made a lovely traditional cake in late July for pudding after one of our roasts'. It was a whole orange cake, yes, WHOLE orange cake: skin, pith, pips, the lot! And it was beautiful!! The icing was icing sugar mixed with freshly squeezed orange juice!
12/07/2015
We had some friends over today for a BBQ, so for dessert, i decided to make few alternative puddings so to suit everyone. So here are the results. From left to right: Sheep Cupcakes, Custard and Blackberry Tart and Individual chocolate mousse's with chocolate spoons!
14/06/2015
Every sunday, my husband and I have a traditional Roast Dinner, it is also the only day of the week we have a pudding, made from scratch by myself. This was the pudding today, Tarte du Citron (aka Lemon Tart), served with hand picked blackberries and single cream. Scrummy! Not a soggy bottom in sight!
21/4/2015
Well, as a surprise for my father-in-law, my husband and I made him a very 'special' cake for his birthday this year. A hot tub cake! Rich chocolate cake with a white chocolate butter cream filling, kitkats and hand sculptured women by yours truely! I know it's not perfect, and there are many things I would do differently if I was feeling better, but here are a couple of photos'! My apologies if you find this a little rude.
25/03/2015
With Easter just around the corner I wanted to make something I have not made before. I know that you can buy them very cheaply in supermarkets but due to my huge ove for baking, I thought I would give them a go! So here we are my home-made Hot Cross Buns! I must add that these weren't the best of the bunch, those were eaten quite quickly whilst stil warm! These were a bit too big, so next time I will make smaller ones. These were glazed with warm honey! Mmmmm!
18/03/2015
There are so many birthdays and events coming up in the early part of the year. My first cake creation this year was for my sister-in-law. My husband and I agreed that a minion cake for her would be perfect as she has a thing about Minions! As far as cake decorating goes, it was one of the easiest cakes I've made! However, I am a stickler for proportions! Being a copy of a well known character, the proportions have to be right. Some cakes that can be found on the internet are a little obscure in their proportions - you know what it is meant to be, but it's not quite right. As I said it is my first and I will definitely change things the next time I make one. As a cake baker there are ALWAYS things I would change about every cake!
15/02/2015
Well this year I thought I would treat my husband to a special valentines meal, after all it was our first Valentines as man and wife! So I went to the local butcher and bought 2 cuts of beef fillet and made individual beef Wellingtons. I do not like mushrooms so instead of using these in the Wellingtons, I used bacon and spinach between the beef and puff pastry. Very tasty, will definitely be making these again! For pudding, I wanted to make something inspired by our honeymoon in Europe and the patisseries! So I set raspberry jelly and made some custard from scratch and set this too. Then I took heart cutters and raspberries and made a very unique dessert.
14/09/2014
Muffins using the blackberries my husband and I picked this year! Hopefully next year we willbe able to use blackberries from our own shrub in the garden!
15/08/2015
Here is a little something I rustled up for a pudding this week, upside down plum cake using the Victoria Plums from the tree in our garden!
14/06/2014
Just a simple blackberry cake, still slightly warm when eaten! It didn't last long!
21/5/2014
This week I decided to bake some bread. By 10am four loaves of bread were proving. Here are two of the four I made! A batch of white sesame seed rolls and an onion loaf! The onion loaf was delicious, still warm with a bit of butter! Yum!
19/03/2014
Lunch, Busty Baker Style!
15/3/2014
Home-made pizza, including the dough! Yum!
09/02/2014
Home-made cheesy bread!
18/01/2014
Poppy seed cottage loaf!
