For my birthday I got not one, but TWO baking books in what may be an attempt to: 1. Make me cook more. 2. Make me weigh as much as a whale. Cliff’s grandmother got me The Great British Book of Baking, which got mixed reactions from my family. “A cookbook written by an English [...]
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Baking time is a good time
Last week I spent a morning baking thanks to Angela, who was kind enough to share some Hummingbird Bakery recipes with me. Here’s the recipe for carrot cake. I made it in cupcake form and they were amazing! Enjoy * 2 cups plain flour * 2 cups sugar * 2 teaspoons bicarbonate of soda [...]
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Heart shaped baking
Last Christmas I got a PINK heart shaped muffin tray and a heart shaped baking tray. I obviously had to use them as soon as I came back to England. The first thing we did with it was bake PINK cakes. We just used a basic muffin recipe, added some apples that didn’t have long [...]
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apple love
apple flickr favourites1. from apple day, 2. Apples and Peanut Butter, 3. Untitled, 4. Untitled, 5. bartlett, 6. becoming bigger on flickr A few weeks ago I made apple pie following this recipe Miss Caro posted (minus the rum and raisins). It is 100% recommended. It turned out amazing and everybody loved it. I [...]
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>THIS IS ART
>I feel the need to show that I am not the only great artist I know. Amanda decided that maybe I could be like Judy Garland but without the drugs and the gay icon status. Funny thing is my mother bought me The Wizard of Oz. Erica pictured me holding a poo-shaped cake. I was [...]
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>Halloween!
>Going on with my absolute lack of social life, here’s how I spent my Halloween. Heart-shaped spider brownie. Excuse the crappy photo. cupcakes! me: mum! You’re eating the paper!my mother: I know.(silence)my mother: I can’t get it out! What am I supposed to do?(silence)my mother: Even the paper tastes good! Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens [...]
