… and I’m going to show you how! This cake is a proper birthday cake: layers of Victoria sponge with buttercream and raspberry jam. And all totally gluten-free. I use Doves Farm gluten-free flour because to my mind nothing beats it. What you end up with is a real cake: perfectly light sponge with […]

Ohh, I loved making this cake waaay back when it was warm and we had a sort of summer… [Shivers as sits typing in clothes still damp from the school run] Warm colours… spiced chocolate orange cake… [Harp music] Too early to eat a mince pie? So, it was summer time and I had a […]

This week I had a fantastic time with the Rainbow Trust at the Woodside Children’s Centre in Bristol. They kindly asked me to go along and bake with them to raise funds for their Big Hour initiative. We decided it would be a good idea to make a rainbow fruit cake that families could take […]

I loved everything about this wedding. Bride, Melani, has a very good eye, as these beautiful photographs by Ria Mishaal show.  One of my favourite colour themes is green and white and the gorgeous weather and beautiful venue, Barnsley House, set it off perfectly. For the cake, Melani was clear that she wanted a simple design […]