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
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
This week’s GBBO frightened me a little bit if I’m honest; I have a general fear of bread so upping the ante on that with non-wheat flour was way too scary to even consider, I don’t have a nice electric mixer to make meringues which put me off the technical challenge which left the showstopper…… Continue reading Great Blogger’s Bake Off, Week #8 – Purple Velvet Torte
Carole Finds Her Wings 