Emerald's blog for documenting making, doing and finding things interesting...
With Christmas approaching, smashing a bunch of super strong mints into a dust to make peppermint ‘snow’ seemed like a pretty festive thing to do. Crushing an entire packet on mints in a pestle...
Not *quite* like the real deal, but still. The cookbook is a pre-birthday present and a fab one at that
If you have a surplus of over-enthusiastically bought clementines that aren’t quite as juicy as they once were, here’s an idea for a zesty, caramelised treat; Light the oven and set to gas mark...
Yayy… lots of cakes made and eaten yesterday and a bit of Phd research in the corner all equalled to a lovely afternoon and lots of cash… Add to that the £145 donated online,...
Tomorrow is the Macmillan Cancer Charity’s World’s Biggest Coffee Morning event. I’m holding one at ours in the afternoon and cakes have been planned.. gingerbread ‘shapes’; cos I love gingerbread chilli choc fudge cake;...
Happy Easter! I am a bit of a heathen so these Hot Cross Buns were baked today – oops… Anyhow, I’m super pleased with them; they are light as a feather and nice and...
So; Leap Year, St David’s Day and then Mother’s Day – a jam packed weekend that was! and it involved a lot of baking… The Welsh cakes for Offline were a success (after I...
Craft club was all about baking bread this month – we spent a sunny afternoon kneading and squidging dough – adding pumpkin seeds, walnuts, cranberries, caraway seeds, sundried tomatoes, onion and olives to our...
Baked these last night as last minute Christmas Cookies… they’re v tasty but a bit of a nightmare to make… super buttery so a very melty, sticky dough and you have to watch them...
Ok, I cheated somewhat as my actual birthday isn’t til tuesday but… Sundays are good for birthday teas… It was going to be in picnic form but what with the drought rain, it was...
