My sister is visiting for a week, from Canada, and picked up my mother for a trip to visit us in Wales, since I hadn't been able to go for a while due to flu and Rosie not really being up to the journey..

It was good to see them if only for a couple of days, and we had a good sunny day out to Angle beach, coming home via Freshwater West, then took ( Read more... )

I stumbled across one of these '18 mug cake' type articles, and thought: Mmmmm.  Cake.  But then I looked at the recipes, and some of them were a bit yuk, or demanded ingredients not easily available in this country etc etc, so I looked for others that might be easier to make.  These are what I ended up with.   I used to have a lot of mug cakes ( Read more... )

Bullet Points of Random Things!

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Philmophlegm requested cupcakes. I took this as an opportunity to cakesperiment.

( Beetroot cakes (with recipe), with, and without chocolate, lemon and spicecakes )

Since I'm living in a monarchy, I definitely want to enjoy the spectacle.   My abstract view of monarchy as a system is not uncritically approving, but I feel that switching to anything else at this stage would have many downsides.  And there's no question that our current incumbent is a tough old bird for an 86 year old. 
( A celebratory cake. )

It was philmophlegm's birthday yesterday.   I thought it would be nice to make him a birthday cake.  And then I thought, would it not be even nicer to make him a cake that was a GOLDEN FIRE DRAGON???
( Dragon photos beneath the cut )

Today I made a cinnamon and ginger cake with lemon icing ( Read more... )

On philmophlegm's birthday, we made a lot of tiny cakes.  Then we decorated them in an exciting manner.  My approach to the tiny cakes was to  include an interesting range of flavours, colours and textures : lemon, orange, cinnamon, nuts, chocolate...  Philmophlegm's approach to tiny cakes was to render them in the manner of Traveller Roleplaying ( Read more... )

I've not made these yet, but a reliable source tells me they are well worth a try, particularly as I have a tin of custard powder that I am unlikely to use in any other way:

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