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Happy Halloween! Zombie Coconut Truffles
Happy Halloween! Halloween is now the second biggest party night after New Years Eve, with Tesco expecting to sell over three million pumpkins for us to creatively carve into amazing designs we've seen...
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Bonfire Baking: Apple, Toffee and Hazelnut Loaf Cake
Hurrah it's Bonfire Night!Or, if you live in a community similar to ours, Bonfire Week, as we've been hearing fireworks pretty much every night for the last seven days. Good to get some practice in I...
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Happy Christmas!
A rather belated but very merry Christmas! I'm not entirely sure when etiquette experts recommend switching from wishing a Happy Christmas to a Happy New Year but as Father Christmas didn't deliver a...
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Baking Trends 2017
Happy New Year!It's a brand spanking New Year and that only means one thing! Well, two things. Firstly the hurried, panicked consumption of left over Mince Pies and chocolates from Christmas (8 pies...
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Orange, Pistachio and Rose Cake
Isn't this just the sunniest cake you've seen? A little antidote to the January blues, the dark evenings and the freezing cold mornings. A cake to comfort now that Len has left Strictly and the Bake...
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Chocolate and Orange Welsh Cakes
A mixture of the more traditional Welsh Cake and the indulgent Chocolate Orange versionHappy St David's Day!The Welsh patron saint was known for extreme austerity (yes, he was the forefather of the...
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Hello!This is just a little note to the tumbleweed clogging up this blog. How are you? Dusty and neglected?Well, quite. You see, over the last couple of years I've only sporadically been baking and...
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The ten steps involved in baking with children
After seven months knee deep in nappies with two children under two it was high time for me to dip my toes back into the world of baking and blogging. And what better a rainy Sunday afternoon activity...
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Halloween Pumpkin Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
With the darker evenings and cooler days, Autumn has well and truly got it's feet tucked firmly under the dining room table. Heartier bakes are on the menu and with Halloween just round the corner...
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Autumn Blackberry and Lemon Victoria Sponge Cake
It's beginning to look a lot like... oh no, wait, its only the 11th November.But the supermarkets are already piled with mince pies and those in the know booked their festive online delivery slots...
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Marbled Coffee Loaf Cake
Coffee.BFF of exhausted, sleep deprived parents, giver of (some) motivation every Monday morning and a rather delicious flavour for a loaf cake. Coffee cake is the homely staple of the village hall...
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A Baker's Christmas Wish-List
The perfect presents, from £1 to £100, for the baker in your life...The Christmas ChroniclesNo wish-list is complete without a festive recipe book and Nigel's Slater's brand spanking new Christmas...
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Christmas Dinner with Hello Fresh
I am quite convinced that there are two types of people who cook Christmas dinner:Type 1:- You'll have been one of the first to book your supermarket Christmas home delivery slot back in September- You...
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Christmas Spiced Chocolate Cake
My enormous apologies for the terrible photo; rather a lot of prosecco was consumed before any photos were taken!There are just a million opportunities for satisfying a sweet tooth this time of...
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Rudolph Cupcakes
This is the first year that the toddler has really 'got' Christmas. At 2.5 years, mainly through the medium of Peppa Pig's 'Christmas' book, Christmas is more than just eating lots of brightly coloured...
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Happy New Year: Baking Trends 2018!
Happy New Year!With a brand new, shiny and sparkling 365 days ahead, it's high time to publish my traditional-trawl-through-the-interweb-for-vaguely-new baking trends! The fourth mealAccording to...
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The What Kate Baked...and Baby Guide to Returning to Work after Maternity...
The dream: a glorious morning latte and read of the papers on the way to work. The reality: 'Gagh-we're-late-no-where-to-park-outside-nursery-have-I-remembered-everything-be-nice-to-your-brother' on...
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Homemade 'Nakd' Bar Bakewell Tart
Ah January, you sanctimonious, tedious, thirty one days you.Dragging along slower than the Brexit negotiations with it's cold, dull grey skies and worst of all, having joined the January healthy eating...
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Pregnancy baking: The best bakes to make in early labour
Don't get me wrong, giving birth to approximately seven and half bags of sugar in one fell push is not exactly a walk in the park. However, in those early stages, when you spend half the time manically...
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Cocoa and Coconut Energy Balls
As I read yet another article on the benefits of a good nights sleep, I can't help but think how the chances of me achieving a glorious eight hours of peaceful shut-eye are as likely as the train...
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