Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful festive break and thoroughly stuffed yourself with mince pies, ham, cold turkey and cheese – I know I did! Oh wait … I forgot one thing, delicious gingerbread cake of course. Three layers of deliciously moist gingerbread cake smothered with salted caramel buttercream, topped with […]
Christmas
Luxury all butter mince pies

This weekend we had a extra special, early Christmas Day at our friends Jess and Ross’ house. We had the works; roast, crackers, games, chocolates, homemade mince pies and the compulsory Christmas day mini argument ( Tim fell asleep during games time, I wasn’t happy!). Jess had never made all butter mince pies before so […]
3D Gingerbread Christmas tree

I have seen a few lovely 3D Christmas trees on twitter and social media this year and wanted to give it a go. So when I was contacted by Renshaw to take part in their Christmas campaign I jumped at the chance and thought a gingerbread Christmas tree would be the perfect bake. I bought […]
Christmas pavlova wreath

Ok, before anyone says anything, its November so we are now officially allowed to talk about CHRISTMAS!! It really is the most wonderful time of year and this year I was contacted by Wren Kitchens to get involved with ‘Wren’s Christmas Kitchen’ campaign. Of course I said yes, any excuse to start getting festive. I […]