The Cake & Bake Show, the UK’s biggest baking show is coming to Manchester, Event City from November the 12th-15th and I cannot wait. The show organisers have just announced that, for the first time, a Great British Bake Off Live Stage will be at this year’s shows, where visitors will be able to see…
This time last year, bread week was the end on my Bake Off adventure. I got the sugar and the salt mixed up. This year, I made two types of bread. I have always loved corn bread so I made a different version with oatmeal rather than corn and it was lovely. The recipe for…
It is official. I hate biscuit week. Cakes, tarts, even pies and bread on the Great British Bake Off can excite me. For some reason, biscuits do not. I like eating them. This is not some complete biscuit aversion, I just don’t enjoy baking them. So with little enthusiasm and almost no motivation or ideas,…
So Bake Off is back and the beady eyed amongst you may have noticed a difference in the tent this series. No Paul hasn’t gone greyer and I am not referring to Mary’s amazing jackets. I’m talking equipment. Gone are the previous mixers. The Great British Bake Off 2015 is all about the kMix and…
So it’s back. The Great British Bake Off has begun and, in Episode One, the contestants made a madeira cake, a frosted walnut cake and a Black Forest gateau. I therefore decided to play along myself again this year and, my first offering is a Black Forest Gateau Cake. Ingredients 8 oz self raising flour…
It’s only 15 weeks until Christmas, Sorry to scare you. For most of us, that’s only four, maybe five pay days. How do you fancy winning £750 worth of vouchers for the likes of Boots, Toys R Us, Amazon and Early Learning Centre? Your Christmas shopping would be sorted. Well, thanks to Betta Living, you…
This is one of my favourite ever desserts. I say dessert, some may describe it as more of a pudding but hey ho, it is… I make variations of this all year round. Even adding mincemeat at Christmas to give it a lovely festive feel. I hate sticking to recipes so, if you fancy adding…
So for this week’s Great British Bake Off, it’s bread. Now I don;t make bread-products very often. My ‘full of effort yet little success’ really comes into its own here. I don’t have a bread maker so it’s good, old-fashioned kneading for me. I decided to make something that the whole family enjoys. I used…
I can’t believe a week has passed. Here we are on episode two of the Great British Bake Off and this week’s episode is all about biscuits. The humble biscuit really is a British institution and it is personal taste as to whether they contain cream, jam, nuts, fruit or just plain. I asked people…
As everyone’s favourite baking show, the Great British Bake Off begins again, I thought I would share my own favourite cake recipe. You will need: 8oz wholemeal flour 8oz caster sugar 8oz butter (I used St Helen’s Farm Goat’s Butter) 4 eggs 1 Lemon For Filling Lemon curd 10 oz Icing sugar 5oz butter Lemon…
