A Hungry Caterpillar First Birthday

Jun 18th, 2012 by Gemma | 0

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 [...]

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Chocolate Pecan Fudge

Apr 25th, 2011 by Gemma | 0

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 [...]

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Vegan Cupcakes – Ponyo Themed

Apr 6th, 2011 by Gemma | 0

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 [...]

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Halloween Pumpkin Cake

Nov 1st, 2010 by Gemma | 0

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 [...]

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Blackberry Fruit Leathers

Aug 23rd, 2010 by Gemma | 0

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 [...]

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Hokey Pokey Ice Cream

Jul 19th, 2010 by Gemma | 0

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 [...]

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Mind Control Cookies (aka Ribbon Cookies)

Mar 8th, 2010 by Gemma | 1

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 [...]

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