A SLICE OF CAKE

  My sister in law recently asked me to recommend a recipe for a carrot cake, saying she found many of them too moist and oily.  I had to c...

  For the October Loire Valley CCC meeting Nick chose this recipe from the BBC Good Food website.  The theme of the meeting was “a taste ...

For our most recent meeting of Loire Valley Clandestine Cake Club the theme was “the taste of autumn”.  For me that means reluctantly leav...

We have now moved house in France and are settling in, which means getting to grips with an old house and all its little surprises, not to m...

Right in the middle of our house hunting adventures in France we had to dash back to the UK to take delivery of our beautiful new hob and o...

I made this cake using some of those gorgeous little yellow plums called mirabelles that are so common in France but seen so rarely in the ...

  Whilst briefly back in the UK in between French house-hunting adventures a local Clandestine Cake Club meeting cropped up.  After my limi...