• chocolate+cupcakes
    Baking

    Chocolate Cupcake Suprises

    A recipe for 12 light and fluffy chocolate cupcakes with creamy chocolate buttercream, white chocolate decoration and a hidden suprise! I have always wanted to try out some chocolate work so with my latest cupcakes I thought I would attempt some white chocolate decoration. Well, it was certainly not as straight forward as it looks! First of all the chocolate went everywhere, so I had to master the art of either moving fast of squeezing the piping tube gently (preferably both). Then after a while, the chocolate obviously started to set. The latter wasn’t as much of a problem because, honestly, it was easier to work with then. After all…

  • scones
    Baking

    Grandma’s Fruit Scones

    As a child, I loved my Grandma’s baking, from making delicious fruit cake to those classic fairy cakes. She is definitely my baking inspiration. My Grandma wrote a lot of her recipes in a little note book, some dating back to the 1960s. When my mum passed this onto me, I instantly wanted to dive straight in and start to recreate some her infamous bakes. I’m starting with one of my favourites, the classic fruit scone. I’ve converted all the measurements into metric as I found this easier to work with but add a comment below if you’d like me to pop in the original imperial measurements. Hope you enjoy…