A SLICE OF CAKE

During the doldrums between Christmas and New Year I found myself near to Tesco when there were hardly any customers.  I made a quick dash i...

We have been enjoying Mary Berry's new TV series called "Simple Comforts".  With so much uncertainty about the coming months I...

It has been a strange summer.  While in France we have had to endure not one, but three heatwaves.  They only ever last for a few days whe...

  You may wonder why anyone should bother to post about something as everyday as sticky toffee pudding, especially when the only pictur...

  There are a couple of posts I want to do before our return to France which is imminent.  To say we're looking forward to it would...

The first fruit cake I made in 2018 was for my dad’s 90th birthday last November.   He wanted a small family party and when I asked him what...

I am a fan of coconut in cakes and for our July Cake Club meeting where the theme was “flowers” I decided to make a coconut and rose cake....

Nick made this cake for the last CCC meeting.  I had made it myself (and blogged about it) a while ago and when I looked it up it turns out ...

This cake was made by Nick for our Clandestine Cake Club meeting last February.  The theme was loosely based on St. Valentine’s Day and he ...

I spotted some lovely looking strawberries in the supermarket recently – sadly we don’t grow any of our own, one day perhaps.  Wondering wh...