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Amaretto gingerbread A square of light, sticky, gooey amaretto gingerbread. Dusted with icing sugar and to be eaten alongside a mug of coffee, preferably whilst relaxing on the sofa. That’s the dream. I absolutely love gingerbread – the cake kind,…
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Where do you stand on the whole ‘growing up’ thing? I - as regular readers will know - am firmly against it, apart from situations where it’s strictly necessary. I find how children see the world fascinating. There’s all the…
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Winter is coming - as they say. Or rather, I think we can agree that winter is here. We are most of the way through November, so my thoughts have moved to soups and wooly jumpers (in fact I’m wearing one…
Continue readingWith the sun finally beginning to shine and summer making a rare appearance dinner can sometimes be a bit of a hassle. You want dinner - obviously - but at the same time you want to be outside enjoying the…
Continue readingLike a fair amount of places, our office has a tradition that people bring in some form of baked goods or treats on their birthday. Since my birthday (a week or two ago now, just a little behind in writing)…
Continue readingI had one of those moments the other day - those moments when you just want some cake. Well, there’s only one thing I like to do in those moments, and that is to go make some sort of sponge.
Continue readingIt’s World Gin Day! How exciting is that? How can you celebrate? Well, for starters by pouring yourself a gin and tonic, but you can also get on the baking bandwagon with and make a gin loaf cake - be…
Continue readingThe weekend was very productive. On Saturday I finished unpacking all my boxes (where did all that crap go in my old house? I could swear I haven’t seen half of it before), found the bottles of wine which were…
Continue readingIf it wasn’t already apparent from the recipe categories along the top of the blog and those down the side I quite like cake. In fact, I’ve always liked loved cake. One of the best times for cake is, of…
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