April 2015

Grandfather Clock Cake

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I think I unintentionally have a thing for making clock cakes. They are always a bit of a challenge, but in a good way. I was asked to make a Grandfather clock for our friend Becky’s Grandfather’s 90th Birthday. He has spent his life repairing clocks including Big Ben. There is a little article on him here. Becky sent me this image as a reference of how she wanted the clock to look. To start the grandfather clock I

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Banoffee Macarons

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I’ve been on a bit of a blogging hiatus and posting pretty randomly for the past few months. I’ve been working on lots of different things – some of which I’m super excited to share on here. Like these macarons, which might be my new fave flavour (I think I say that every time I make new ones). These were for my cousin’s birthday. She doesn’t really do cake so every year I make her some sort of macarons or macaron cake hybrid, as she can eat about a million of them. I went for banoffee as it’s such a classic combo and these were full of flavour. To make them I

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