Over here lately the weather has been hot. Really hot some days, simply quite hot on others. The kind of weather that makes you want to sit in the garden and chill in shade. Definitely not the kind of weather for spending indoors baking cake. The trouble is though, I quite like a nice cake… Continue reading 15 Minute Summer Berry Cake
Do you know that feeling of finding a place you really like, be it a shop, cafe, theatre or garden, and hoping it will never ever change? That’s the feeling I have about one of my favourite places to visit when I am home in Ireland – The Brown Hound Cafe in Bryanstown, Drogheda. I… Continue reading Revisiting The Brown Hound Cafe, Drogheda
Recently, and for the first time in my life, I encountered a rotten egg. I hadn’t noticed that one of the eggs we’d brought in from the hens was slightly cracked. A week or so later I cracked it in on top of another egg to beat for baking with and saw immediately that something… Continue reading Extra Moist & Fudgey Brownies
I love a proper cake like a Victoria sponge or a Black Forest Gateau. They need a bit of care and attention in the making though. When I’m in a rush and have more than a handful of people coming round, a tray bake is my go-to cake. This weekend I came up with a… Continue reading Raspberries & Cream Tray Bake
As a child I was oblivious to the fact that a lot of families don’t bake. I assumed that everyone knew how to make scones, pastry, brown bread, crumble, quiche and buns. My mother, grandmother and aunts all did. By the time I was ten, even I could make them – no scales, cookbook or… Continue reading Christmas Basics: Making Mince Pies
When I was a child I had a cookbook – the Usbourne first cookbook or something along those lines. I can’t remember much of what was in it, but I do remember there was a flapjack recipe and I loved it. My mother had a red square-shaped baking tin and that was the one we… Continue reading Addictive Flapjack Bars
You know how sometimes you do something slightly different to the usual way you do it and it turns out to be way better? You find yourself wondering “Why did I not think of this before? Why is this not THE way to do this?”. Well, we have discovered a new thing and it is… Continue reading The Middle-Of-The-Day Birthday Party
I’ve said before that I am not a cupcake kinda girl. I think they look pretty, but the extreme sweetness really puts me off. Living in a household of boys, as I do, there is not much call for pretty when it comes to cake. Taste is what they are after. I do like prettiness… Continue reading Easy Berry & Cream Cupcakes
