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Chocolate Bread With Salted Caramel (#GBBOBloggers2016 Week 3)


Bread week. I hate bread week because I have an apparent inability to successfully prove bread. Every time I have ever made bread in the past the 'wait until it has doubled in size' thing has just never worked. It's either exactly the same as when I made it, or marginally bigger with no sign… Continue reading Chocolate Bread With Salted Caramel (#GBBOBloggers2016 Week 3)

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Vodka & Coke Drizzle Cake (#GBBOBloggers2016 Week 1)


Week 1 of GBBO and I bake a Vodka & Coke Drizzle Cake. Read on for the recipe:

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Great Bloggers Bake Off 2015 – Patisserie Week


It was a tough choice deciding what to make this week - cream horns and eclairs are both favourites of mine. In the end though, I decided to chicken out of making puff pastry in favour of taking on an old enemy - choux pastry. If you were following this blog for previous Bake Offs… Continue reading Great Bloggers Bake Off 2015 – Patisserie Week

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Great Bloggers Bake Off 2015 – Pastry Week


Pastry week fils me with fear. I've not often made any pastry myself and when I have it has more often than not been a failure. I've never made frangipane either, so clearly frangipane tart was the way to go! My Mum and Dad have been plying me with fruit from their garden so I… Continue reading Great Bloggers Bake Off 2015 – Pastry Week

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Hazelnut & Daim Biscotti #GBBOBloggers2015 – Biscuit Week


Biscuit week on Great British Bake Off is one of those ones that I always enjoy but often have disasters on - biscuits are very unforgiving. They either work brilliantly or fail completely. There doesn't seem to be any middle ground. The three bakes this week were biscotti, Arlettes and show stopper biscuit boxes filled… Continue reading Hazelnut & Daim Biscotti #GBBOBloggers2015 – Biscuit Week