| I enjoy baking
cakes, cookies, and other goodies for friends and work colleagues. This has
developed into a nice little business, especially around the holidays.
Nowadays, I usually have three or four orders a month, which suits me fine. My
recipes originate from various sources, including New York's Magnolia Bakery,
England's Delia Smith and Nigella Lawson, and even my grandmother's recipe
file. I always say, "If you can read, you can cook," but buying good
quality ingredients and enjoying the process helps too. |
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![]() Tiffany's gift box |
![]() Lemon sponge cake, soaked in limoncello syrup, topped with white chocolate and limoncello truffles and marzipan roses |
![]() A tropical lemon cake |
![]() A tower of pink |
Bob the Builder cake |
![]() The same boy's cake, a year later |
![]() A delicious, triple layer chocolate buttermilk cake with a ten pin bowling theme. |
![]() An 80s-themed chocolate cake with Madonna, Adam Ant, and Boy George rendered in sugar |
![]() Beaker, from The Muppets, made for a chemist |
![]() A little girl's chocolate disco cake |
![]() Rainbow themed cake |
![]() Heat shaped cookies to go with the rainbow cake |
![]() A mini-cake for a (female) Wicked fan. It features Elphaba and ruby slippers gingerbread cookies. |
![]() A lemon butterfly cake |
![]() A recent birthday cake. |
![]() A deliciously moist carrot cake with cream cheese icing served as a 75th birthday treat |
![]() Chocolate mud cake topped with homemade truffles |
![]() Lemon sponge soaked in limoncello and layered with lemon curd |
![]() This is one of my favourite cakes. The original Pooh Bear. |
![]() For a football fan |
![]() My first time to make marzipan roses. The cake is a fruitcake that has been maturing for weeks. |
![]() This was my own German chocolate birthday cake, made like my grandmother used to make it. |
A butterfly themed cake
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![]() Just to prove they're not all girly looking |
A lemon cake with
sugar paste daisies |
![]() Chocolate truffles cake with crystalized rose petals |
![]() Bart in delicious chocolate buttercream |
![]() A rich fruitcake for a rather dishy 40 year old |
![]() For a badminton enthusiast |
![]() I made this cake for a young girl who likes dance |
![]() Another fruitcake with marzipan roses, this time with royal icing |
![]() My biggest cake so far, packed with lemony goodness. The truffles on top are white chocolate and limoncello. |
![]() A mermaid cake, decorated with sea creature cookies. |
![]() The cookies |
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![]() My latest cake - a black and white wedding cake. |
![]() Flower detail from the cake |
![]() My most ambitious cake to date |
![]() Butterfly detail from the wedding cake |
![]() Our own wedding cake. Click HERE to see our celebrations in Paris! |
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![]() A simnel cake, heavy on the marzipan |
![]() I made this Easter egg using Green & Black's organic chocolate. It's filled with small homemade peanut butter and chocolate Easter eggs. |
![]() 2007's Easter egg |
![]() A mini simnel cake just for us |
Painstakingly made
Easter cookies flavoured with real vanilla seeds, lemon or orange peel, or
chocolate. |
![]() I based these lemon flavoured teddy bear cookies on the brightly coloured Gap briefs I bought Nick as an Easter gift. The underwear is unworn in this photo... A bear from behind |
![]() A bear in his underwear |
![]() Bear behind |
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![]() 2007 Valentine's Day cookies |
![]() Cookies for a christening |
A hen night cake
inspired by The Full Monty. |
![]() Some festive cupcakes |
![]() Underwear cookies |
![]() Catwalk cookies |
![]() My own version of Magnolia Bakery's famous cupcakes |
![]() Our bronze anniversary cake |
![]() This blackberry pie was made on holiday in France. We picked the berries ourselves by the roadside. |
![]() This gift package is actually full of chocolate chip cookies. |
![]() ...and inside this package are peanut butter cookies. |
![]() Homemade donuts, including the raspberry jam filling |
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![]() Sadly, this is not me, but I might sell more cupcakes with him on the brochure! Click HERE for more cute chefs. |
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![]() I made dozens of jolly Halloween cookies to sell. |
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![]() I make gingerbread bears for the folks I work with. |
![]() A yule log |
![]() 2006's mini Christmas cakes |
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![]() One of many Christmas fruit cakes ordered each year |
![]() Mince pies |
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![]() I made the marzipan fruit on top of this Christmas cake. |
![]() Almond shortbread cookies |
![]() Our own Christmas cake always has a camp theme. |
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![]() We collected these porcini mushrooms near where we live. See photos of our hunt HERE. |
![]() A gorgonzola and fig salad in the garden |
Some of the ingredients bought in the
French market one summer |
![]() Homemade mini pizzas |
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