Seasonal

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 …

As it was the weekend before Halloween, Alexia and I decided to go to our local farm to carefully select a few pumpkins, frolic in the fields and of course take a few photos along the way. The pumpkin patch was already packed with families and kids being plonked on pumpkins for cute photo opportunities (I would totally do the same). After a delightful lesson from Alexia about how pumpkins actually grow we explored the area trying to pick our favourites. Having poured with the rain the day before it was super muddy so we …