Having fun baking and decorating cakes- come along for the ride.
Every now and again I come across a kids cook book that is really excellent.‘Cook It Step by Step – Learn to cook 100 easy recipes’ by Dorling Kindersley is that kind of a book. It’s got lots of fabulous meal ideas, uses ‘grown up’ flavours and original ideas – not the usual cheesy jacket potatoes and …
How cool is this? I got sent the press release for this fab washing up bowl yesterday and I had to share it with you all right away. Now, I know I shouldn’t get excited about a washing up bowl, but as it’s a JosephJoseph one it means it’s a “why didn’t someone think of …
Have you seen these Dr Oetker gel food colours on the supermarket shelves yet? They’re available in these really handy squeezy tubes. Nice and neat and easy to use and what’s more they don’t make your icing go all runny. Each 10g tube of gel can be used to colour enough icing to cover 24 …
Hands up who wants to make festive cake pops this Christmas? Once you take a look at the cute designs in this book you’re certainly going to want to. Bakerella is an American blogger (aka the lovely Angie Dudley). She’s the original cake pop developer. She’s written books including Cake Pops and Cake Pops: …
Have you ever tried to measure really small amounts of liquid, sugar, almond essence or alcohol before? It can be tricky can’t it? Measuring jugs nearly always start at 50ml or 100ml. What if you need 30ml of brandy? Or you have tripled a recipe and need 6 teaspoons of vanilla essence? I know you can just …
Have you ever been to Jerusalem? It’s an amazing city full of diversity and amazing sights, scenes, sounds and smells. Being Jewish I’ve been a few times and even though it’s the original ‘old city’ it always seems different each time I go. I have really, really fond memories of Jerusalem from when I went …
