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Hanging out and learning about baking

December 2, 2012 By Ellen

Hot new baking tips I gathered this week:  If you want strongly coloured icing, spend money on the best colours you can find.  To make an iced cake easier. Freeze a Madeira sponge and ice it while half defrosted.  If your cake won’t rise, maybe the baking power isn’t fresh.  Too much baking powder can […]

Filed Under: advice, baking, cheating, Google +, Google Plus, hangout, tips, whitworths

Pudsey in a cake tin – Whitbread

November 16, 2012 By Ellen

Children in Need again and this time Boy One decided he’d turn his culinary skills to charitable use this year. Months ago he bought a Pudsey cake mould from Lakeland with this very moment in mind.  “I’m too busy to help this week,” I said, and I was. This week seems to have been more […]

Filed Under: baking, Children in Need, icing, proud mum., sponsored post, whitworths

Shortbreading the news – Whitworths

November 10, 2012 By Ellen

Yes it really was as messy as this! As, ahem, a baking ambassador for Whitbread it is clear that some baking is required. Normally the baking in our house is done by Boy One who is currently fixated on all matters culinary. However, he was elsewhere when the domestic muse came upon us. Boy Two and Three […]

Filed Under: baking, bakingsos, children, cooking, mess, recipe, shortbread, whitworths

A surprise in my pyjamas – Whitworths

October 31, 2012 By Ellen

  There was I on Saturday morning considering making honeycomb crunch. Now this is reasonably unlikely behaviour for me, to be honest. I love to cook but I’m far more likely to be considering making a bacon and avocado wrap or wondering what else will benefit from the addition of melted cheese. But two things […]

Filed Under: baking, bakingsos, cooking, pyjamas, sugar, whitworths

Anchor Cooking Challange – a moo-ving experience

September 27, 2012 By Ellen

  Baking has become quite a big thing in our house. Boy One has taken up the hobby of baking with huge enthusiasm. The kind of enthusiasm only an Aspie can muster.  However, it also transpires that, in the main, he’s pretty good at it. So when I was offered the chance to help promote […]

Filed Under: Anchor butter, Anchor rewards club., Asperger, Aspie, baking, cow, cup cakes, sponsored post

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