Tag Archives: Mary Berry
Last Minute Mince Pies
This year is our fourth Christmas in the states. Our fourth Christmas without Mince Pies which, as any British person will know, are an essential part of the general festive overeating. (You can buy them some places, but they are even worse than those cheap supermarket own brand ones, everyone knows homemade are best!) I […]
Great British Bake Off Technical Challenge Week 1: Mary’s Angel Food Cake
It’s the return of the Great British Bake Off! Hurrah! This means it’s time to get inspired to bake some things, bake some new things, and generally eat even more baked goods than usual! I bought the book the other week, and had a flick through the technical challenges to see if there were any […]
The Great British Bake Off Technical Challenge: Final – Mary Berry’s Fondant Fancies
This weekend I went to work, had some lovely food at Hart’s Bakery, then went to a friend’s birthday BBQ with the theme of “Beardfest”. I took the crochet moustache off my neckwarmer and used double sided sticky tape to stick it to my face. It was quite the spiffy look. Today, we went for […]
The Great British Bake Off Technical Challenge: Week 3 – Mary Berry’s Treacle Tart
So this week’s technical challenge is going to be a Treacle Tart. I know I’m a day early, but I’ve got to go to work tomorrow, then my friend is coming a-visiting to pick up the sugar flowers, so I thought I would bake today. Plus it gave me an excuse to prance about the […]
Bank Holiday Monday…
My only day off this weekend, and it is… Raining. Sheesh. Typical English weather. The only thing we can rely on is that it is unreliable, unpredictable, but…. what else would we talk about with random strangers as small talk otherwise? “Some horrible weather we’re having” “Oh yes, raining cats and dogs out there” So… […]
Baking, Making, and Crafting 