Chocolate orange cakes with Duerr’s Apricot Jam

by Jenny // November 30, 2013 // No Comments

Recently Duerr’s, the country’s oldest family jam company sent me some products which they used in a series of baking video’s called baking for boys. This week I’m featuring their recipe for Chocolate Orange Cake which has both chocolate sauce... Continue reading →

Bloodied glass halloween cupcakes

by Jenny // November 1, 2013 // 9 Comments

Today marks the launch of my very own linky, Celebration Cakes & Bakes. The obvious celebration at the moment is Halloween, and I’ve been busy making lots of themed bakes over the last few weeks including a dairy free pumpkin... Continue reading →

Chocolate orange cupcakes

by Jenny // October 14, 2013 // 8 Comments

To celebrate their Great Chocolate Bake competition Dr Oetker kindly sent us a lovely parcel of goodies to bake with. I used some of the chocolate chunks to make some yummy chocolate chunk cookies with the kids but wanted to... Continue reading →

Spooktacular Halloween Ideas: Monster Cupcakes

by Jenny // October 7, 2013 // 18 Comments

A few days ago I wrote a post about making Room on the broom inspired cupcakes for Halloween. At the same time I also made a selection of more traditional monster cupcakes that you could easily do for a kiddy... Continue reading →

Spooktacular Halloween Ideas: Room on the broom

by Jenny // October 4, 2013 // 24 Comments

I love Halloween, I love the lanterns and the spookiness and the excuse to eat lots of things that are bad for you. I’ve been looking for ideas on Pintrest and wanted to do a tutorial on some simple but... Continue reading →

Honey and lemon microwave cake in a cup

by Jenny // September 20, 2013 // 12 Comments

Whittard of Chelsea have set bloggers like myself a challenge. Come up with a recipe for a cake that you can make in a cup and cook in a microwave. The idea is to show that it’s possible to have... Continue reading →

Thomas the Tank Engine Cupcakes

by Jenny // September 19, 2013 // 8 Comments

It’s national cupcake week this week and I couldn’t let it go by without making some sort of cupcakes. We decided to stay home today because let’s be honest it’s miserable outside and also I have a cold. This meant... Continue reading →

Alice in Wonderland Cakes: Down the rabbit hole

by Jenny // August 7, 2013 // 8 Comments

This weekend the Mad Hatter had a tea party in Chester. It was a charity event to raise money for a 2 year old little girl called Anya who desperately needs treatment in America for and aggressive form of cancer... Continue reading →

Christening cupcakes

by Jenny // June 28, 2013 // No Comments

I recently offered to make some cupcakes for the Christening of my friend’s baby. Actually I originally offered to make a cake or cookies but ran out of time so have resorted to cupcakes and an apology. The cakes are... Continue reading →

Après Tennis chocolate crispy treats

by Jenny // June 27, 2013 // 7 Comments

My son has been going to tennis lessons for about a year now and although he started out enthusiastically we went through a very tough phase where “I don’t like tennis”, which pretty much meant: it’s hard and I can’t... Continue reading →