Tag: Baking

These days, if it's sweet treats you're after, it's all too easy to pop into a supermarket or your local Greggs and pick up an average donut, cronut, or whatsitsnut for less than a quid and fulfil your daily calorie allowance in one fell...

This month has been a tiny bit sporadic on the blog. After a busy few months trying to squeeze blogging into my new self-employed life, I decided the world wouldn't stop turning if I didn't post for a week and it might do me some good. Indeed it...

Years ago Mr M bought me a breadmaker. All shiny and new and guaranteed to provide us with an endless supply of freshly-baked bread with the minimum of effort from yours truly. I think I made three loaves then it was relegated to the back of a...

My mum's mincemeat slice has been a childhood fave of mine for years. When I was younger, we would always make mince pies and sausage rolls before Christmas. And then after the festive season, the mincemeat slice would appear. An oaty, crumbly,...

So, after the last work Bake Off didn't go too terribly for me, I decided that I should keep working on my baking skills and join in the next one. The theme of the charity event this time  - muffins. Now, as we know I'm no baking expert, and...

I used to bake. Back in my early twenties, when I convinced myself I'd never find anyone who would want to marry me unless I oozed a combination of Carrie Bradshaw and Nigella Lawson, with a bit of someone athletic like Jessica Ennis thrown in. And...

It's been a long time since I cooked a dessert. I swore off baking, or in fact making any form of desserts, after a series of embarrassing dinner party disasters. First there was the cheesecake that didn't set. I substituted full fat ingredients...

Mrs Manning senior (ie Mr Manning’s mother) is a domestic goddess. There’s nothing that comes out of her kitchen that isn’t splendid (except once when she forgot to put the water in the saucepan she was cooking cauliflower for cauliflower...