Melting middle chocolate pots

Super easy and impressive looking dessert… Ingredients: 100g dark chocolate 100g unsalted butter150g light brown soft sugar3 eggs50g plain flour1/2 tsp vanilla essence Method Melt chocolate and butter and leave to cool for 15 minsGrease 4 / 5 pudding dishes (depending on size)Add sugar into chocolate mixture and mix well until combinedAdd eggs one at …

Mini egg Krispie slices

If you don’t LOVE sweet things, stop reading now! Not strictly baking, but a quick and easy sweet treat with an Easter twist! I recently started following @janespatisserie on Instagram, and this is one of her recipes which I decided to make for some pre Easter sweet treats at work. Super easy to make, and …

Spinach and cheese muffins

I don’t bake lots of savoury goods - tending to favour their sweet counterparts but one savoury snack I do love are these cheese and spinach muffins - a recipe I found in the Hummingbird Bakery cookbook. Easy to make, and they freeze really well so I typically have them in the freezer during the …

Cake for a cyclist

For the month of February there is only one birthday in the office and that is of our CEO and cycling enthusiast. Also with a couple of gluten intolerant colleagues I made a gluten free sponge and decorated with white chocolate piped bikes! To be honest, not a fan of gluten free flour - it …

Sprinkles make everything look good

I love sprinkles, I actually think I have a problem, but the reason I love them so much is that they make even a simple cake look exciting. Sprinkles are everywhere, but my fave at the moment come from the Shire Bakery as they have a great range AND they offer a subscription where you …

Pineapple cake

Another treat from 'Bake Australia Great' and one of my first attempts at shaped cakes... was actually easier than I thought! Recipe and method can be found on this link - I used buttercream rather than swiss merengue but worked out pretty well! https://www.delicious.com.au/recipes/katherine-sabbath-cake-recipe-pineapple-cake/kerhjpi8

Slice of Choco-mint heaven

For Christmas I received the wonderful 'Bake Australia Great' by Kat Sabbath, and this chocolately delight was no doubt the first of many cakes I'll be baking from this book - the decorations a little harder to come by as they are Australian sweets, but lovely nonetheless! IngredientsCake320 g self-raising flour385 g caster sugar85 g …

My first piñata cake

My colleague requested a cake for her daughters birthday, so I decided to do my first piñata cake… So much fun, and loved by the recipient! Also loving my americolor gel colourings - so vibrant!

Chocolate brownies

Having watched all the bakers on this years GBBO spectacularly failed the signature challenge to make chocolate brownies, I thought I’d share my recipe which always seems to work (although never been timed to do it!) Ingredients 185g unsalted butter185g dark high cocoa solids chocolate50g white chocolate50g milk chocolate85g self raising flour40g cocoa powder3 large …

Another 40th birthday…

Another 40th birthday calls for another 40th birthday cake, and an opportunity to learn a new icing technique. This time, I went for stripes, and actually so long as you have the equipment and the right conditions not as tricky as you might expect! Here is the finished result! I learnt how do this technique …