A few months back I started with the task of baking through a cookbook that my Grandma gave me belonging to her Grandma. The first recipe I made from it was some buns, which I used to announce my pregnancy. As I’m still waiting for the baby to appear- and getting a bit bored, I […]
Over the last few years Steve and I have enjoyed going on holiday with my Mum using her timeshare. We went to Tenerife a couple of years ago, and Gran Canaria before that. We were working our way through the Canary Islands when Mum decided that the increasing costs of the scheme weren’t worth continuing. […]
One thing I really enjoy about being a stepmum is the opportunity to make birthday cakes for the kids. When I was growing up, me and my brother would always have a homemade birthday cake, so it’s something that I take for granted as part of family life. Having said that, my brother always had- […]
I know I haven’t posted for a while, but I promise my life hasn’t ground to a halt! I just need to get back into the habit of blogging a bit more regularly. So I thought to ease myself back into it that I would do a nice easy post about some of the baking […]
A few weeks ago, at the end of August, I wrote a post about making a birthday cake for the younger two of the children. I had meant to follow it up the next week with the post about the final cake, but it got a bit busy so I never got round to it. […]
I’m aware I haven’t blogged for a while, and I’m really sorry. It’s not that nothing has happened, just nothing that seemed particularly blog-able. Plus, once I got out of the habit it was quite hard to get back in again. So I thought I’d ease back in again by putting in some baking. It’s […]
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