Gooseberry Streusel recipe is a delicious alternative to crumble and is an excellent way to help use up a bumper crop. To me, it is a true taste of early summer. The recipe is easy to bake and simply delicious. Serve it warm as a pudding with ice cream or cream or enjoy a small slice […]
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Tips for using Royal Icing for Lettering and Run Outs
Royal icing is not a sugar medium I work with every day, but it is a form of icing that I have always loved using on my cakes. Royal icing is incredibly versatile and an excellent medium for adding decorative elements to cakes and decorated cookies, whether these be piped pearls, decorative scrolls or piped […]
Recipe for Moist and Delicious Blackcurrant Flapjack Squares
I must admit that of all the summer fruit that grow in my garden, blackcurrants are probably my least favourite. I guess this is because I find them rather too sour to eat straight off my blackcurrant bushes, so unlike raspberries and redcurrants, there is no instant reward for picking them! Blackcurrants are abundant and plentiful right now and I […]
Fresh Plum & Almond Crumble Slice Teatime Treat Recipe!
I found this delicious recipe on the BBC Good Food website one evening whilst browsing looking for some inspiration! It reminds me of a Bakewell Tart style cake, but a lot more moist. It’s lovely on it’s own, or you could serve as a pudding with custard or cream. Mmmmm! You will need : 250g […]
Inspiring Sugar Flowers: Lindy’s Flower Paste Recipe
Flowers are nature’s crafted perfection – the way the petals form and fall, their inherent sculpture and simple yet stunning beauty. Flowers symbolise feelings and emotions, and give us a unique way of being able to say just what we mean. Roses have been offered as a token of love, lilies to mean purity, marigolds […]
Lindy’s Chocolate and Red Wine Cake Recipe
Delicate to the touch, delicious to the taste, gorgeous to the eye … what more could we ask of a cake? When it comes to flavours, what could be more perfect than combining the most divine in food and drink – dark chocolate and red wine? I know, some things are just meant to be together, […]