Baking

I’m officially in full on Christmas baking mode. I’ve been listening to ‘A Very She & Him Christmas’ on repeat and piping, frosting and painting lots of treats day and night. One of my favourite items on the Afternoon Crumbs menu this year has to be this guy, the ‘Festive Drip Cake’. It’s pretty classic in taste, nothing weird and seasonal just a good ole Victoria Sponge that’s then covered in festive cheer. It’s topped with …

Even though it’s not December yet it’s definitely time to start taking care of some very important Christmas admin. Not only have I started making shopping lists and festive party plans but it’s the weekend for making Christmas puddings.

Yesterday Whitworths invited myself and lots of other food bloggers along to celebrate ‘Stir Up Sunday’, as today is the day many of us will be mixing and steaming our Christmas puddings in preparation for the big day. Using Whitworths products, Edd Kimber’s dreamed up a Christmas Sticky Toffee Pudding which he taught us how to make yesterday. The recipe was delicious using lots of …

I’m still putting together my Halloween outfit for this year. I’ve spent a long time in a Google search spiral for Day of the Dead make up tutorials, flower crowns and face gems (stay tuned to see how that turns out. Ha!). This year I’m mega excited for Halloween, I’m definitely ready for a night of fancy dress and spooky cocktails. I’ve been baking a few treats in preparation for this weekend, like this …

You can say you’re a pretty cool company to work for when you organise a trip to The London Dungeon and order cupcakes to match. Found were definitely winning at being an awesome company for their quarterly review and getting in to the spooky spirit too. I don’t really do scary very well but I went to The London Dungeon once a long time ago. It was prior to their revamp but it was still creepy and I went round with sweaty palms and slightly hiding behind people. Think it was the unknown, I reckon I’d be ok second time round. Maybe. For the decorations I remembered …