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Gangster’s Moll.
Woo Fancy Dress! The thought that always goes through my head whenever someone suggests themed Fancy Dress parties. We tend to go all out for them, and mostly make it, or some portion of it. When I was researching dresses in the 20s style, something twigged in the back of my mind, and I realised […]
Triple Ginger Caramel Cookies
I know………….. for weeks I post very sporadically with the stress of work and a busy life, then……………… I post 3 posts in one evening! To be fair, the post on Lemon Squares should have been posted a couple of weeks ago, sorry about that, I teased you with a picture of the little lovelies […]
Happy Happy House
I have had this pattern awaiting stitching for a little while, in fact, since I saw it in the April issue of CrossStitcher. To begin with it looks like a random collection of colourful shapes… I showed it to my cousins wife and she said “ooh lovely… it’s very… abstract… Are they trees?” Once it’s […]
Lemon Squares
They say “Never judge a book by it’s cover”. I did. We have The Book People at work, they come in from time to time and leave us books to peruse and buy. I saw this book…. and to be honest, I thought it looked a bit naff. A lot of the baking books available […]
Simple Apricot and White Chocolate Tarts
I go to an exercise class every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday morning. 07:30. Before work. I know. Some might say I’m crazy, but for me, it fits in really well to my routine: I get up, throw on some clothes, scurry to the train station, catch the train across to Clifton (or sometimes I manage […]
Rough Puff Pastry: Cheese Twists and Palmiers
This week’s Great British Bake Off wasn’t particularly inspiring, but I had a whole load of other baking to do anyway. This week is the Above and Beyond Bake Off week, and we had decided to have ours today. Which meant lots of baking. I thought I would give puff pastry another go, and also […]
Dinoknits.
My friend bought this book, Knitted Dinosaurs by Tina Barrett. And well… they were all just so darn cute! Not really scary at all. I needed it in my life. But I guess knitting a dinosaur for myself was kind of silly. I need children to justify these things. But I do have totally adorable […]
The Great British Bake Off Technical Challenge: Week 5 – Paul Hollywood’s Hand-raised Pies
I must confess. These pies would fail the technical challenge. Pretty much instantly. Being that I didn’t follow the recipe in the slightest and all. I varied the recipe as I didn’t see the point in making meat pies, being a vegetarian I couldn’t eat them, although I am sure Mr M would have eaten […]
Fondant Flowers: Simple flowers for a Wedding Cake
This as a little overdue post, I had promised it just over a week ago, but I wanted to wait until after the wedding in question (no spoilers here), and hopefully have a picture of the end result! A few months ago my friend’s sister saw a cake online that she wanted for her wedding, […]
The Great British Bake Off: Banana Tarte Tatin
Ugh. This week has been basically, hell. Work has been stressful and busy, and unfortunately probably isn’t going to get any better anytime soon. So let’s embrace the baking! This week of the Bake Off, week 4, the technical challenge was Creme Caramel, the signature and showstoppers were tortes and layered meringues… They didn’t much […]
