The family that ordered this cake have a knack for coming up with themes that get me so excited. A hungry caterpillar first birthday cake, why yes, yes indeed. I fondly recall loving that book, so very much! I may have used this cake as an excuse to buy a copy.. for research purposes of [...]

It didn’t take me long to get round to a second attempt at fudge did it? I decided to start my adventures with “proper” fudge with a favourite flavour, chocolate.. with a few pecans added for good measure. Fudge comes under the category of crystallised  candy, the sugar has to be cooled and then beaten [...]

These are the cupcakes that went with the Ponyo cake we showed you on Monday, vanilla with a vanilla frosting and sugarpaste figurines. Best of all – they’re completely vegan. I picked up the book Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World a while back, it looked interesting and they had a lot of good looking [...]

Our centrepiece cake this year was a pumpkin cake. Well, actually it was a butter cake, but it was shaped like a pumpkin.. that still counts as a pumpkin cake right? We were attempting not to be left with too much leftover cake so we just made it an 8 inch round cake, 3 layers [...]

I never realised just how simple and easy fruit leathers are to make. Of course the store bought ones are full of additives and preservatives, they’re also mostly full of either apple or pear with just enough of the “main” fruit to flavour it, since apples and pears are considerably cheaper. We had a punnet [...]

Or What To Do When Your Brown Butter Ice Cream Refuses To Taste Like Brown Butter. I was so looking forward to making the brown butter ice cream, it’s the one I had to have on the list when I was deciding what to make for this month. It’s light, delicate nutty flavour, smooth and [...]

When I moved to Texas Michael introduced me to a family recipe.. a very addictive family recipe. French Vanilla Ribbon Cookies. And boy do people go crazy for them. A simple sugar cookie dough, with a few secret additions, but there is something magical about them, even just the dough, that means that you can’t [...]