tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2581443453131852762024-02-07T03:56:19.878+00:00Tallulah's BakeryAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14261474454806119524noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258144345313185276.post-39459654723256259522014-07-10T18:12:00.001+01:002014-07-10T18:12:28.129+01:00So... What Have I Missed?<br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Remember me? I seem to have been on a lengthy blogging hiatus due cake deadlines and really a little bit of a writer's block when it comes to my blog.</span></div>
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I am definitely not sorry for the amount of time I have spent making cakes - it must mean I am doing something right and it's so lovely that people would like to trust me with their cakes!<br />
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I have not been completely buried in cakes: during my absence I have also re-realised my love of cocktails and gin, and gin cocktails. I spent a lovely evening with friends in a gin bar in Newcastle called Pleased To Meet You and it was wonderful. We need to make plans to get there again. More on the doorstep, I enjoyed a couple of cocktails in Middlesbrough, one being a coffee one that promise a sexual taste and definitely delivered!<br />
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The Boyfriend and I survived the most recent series of Game of Thrones. (The ending took a bit longer to sink in to my brain than those explosive endings of the last couple of series.) We are currently ploughing our way through Breaking Bad; it's been a hard slog but I am starting to realise it's worth it!<br />
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In other news, my Mum and I have started (and since first writing this post, lapsed) a bit of a fitness kick; late nights doing cakes means late night snacking,, and being tried the next day means desperate sugar kicks. We love our treats anyway but the late nights and stress don't help! We're trying very hard to get up at 7am (because when else would we go?) to go jogging. We started off quite positive but it has fallen by the wayside recently. Let's blame the rain. We also went to Aquafit; there wasn't an old lady in sight and man, was it hard!</div>
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So that is a little bit of what I have been up to. I have over the past couple of months realised that I have missed writing for this blog so hopefully I will make more effort to fit more posts in from now on!<br />
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What's everyone else been up to?<br />Vicky</div>
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2 posts in a week, yes I must be in a cake baking lull!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Today I have for you a pretty little 40th birthday cake I made for Laura, who had two birthday cakes from me as she was also the recipient of the Frozen cake I made for Better. I honestly, do not know where they put all this cake...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Although I have been enjoying having the chance to create original cakes for the team at Better, it is quite nice when someone sends you an image and tells you exactly what they want. Laura wanted something like <i><a href="http://designercakesbyapril.blogspot.co.uk/2009/11/colorful-40th-birthday-cake.html" target="_blank">this</a> </i>from Designer Cakes by April<i> </i>but in only 2 tiers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Chloe bought this cake for her step-dad's birthday and gave it to him a few days before his birthday because he was going to be away. He, however, didn't want to cut it and left without doing so. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The birthday gentleman was my Mum's cousin so we were able to watch on Facebook as various family members and friends wound him up about how they had really enjoyed their piece of his birthday cake and watching him go mad that they'd cut it. I'm not sure how big they thought this cake was but I think the entire North East had a slice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">As it turns out that this was only half a joke; Chloe had been working her way through the cake while he was away and it had all gone by the time he'd got back. I don't think she was sorry.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">People! Cut your cakes! What is the point in having a cake other than to enjoy eating it! if you want a piece of art then I'll make you a fake cake out of play-dough and you can keep it forever. Tuck in! I like to think I put as much effort in to making the cake taste nice as I do making it look nice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Anyhoo the design for this cake is not my own and is one of many fabulous designs</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> from </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/Houseoftherisingcake.ca" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">The House of the Rising Cake</span></a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">, who have very kindly gave me permission to share this cake. Big thank you to them - it was great fun to do!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Obviously, along with the rest of the nation, I am loving the sunshine and blue skies this week. There's still a chill in the air but who cares when birds are tweeting and the spring flowers are popping up all over the shop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My favourite moment of my walks this week happened on Monday when I was walking past a house where a little girl was helping her grandma in the garden, and asked her: "Grandma, what was your dream?" I didn't get to hear the answer but I love how the sun just makes everyone feel dreamy and wistful. Or she was just being nosey!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14261474454806119524noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258144345313185276.post-2874625918820878232014-02-27T17:59:00.000+00:002014-02-27T17:59:03.658+00:00Things I Love Thursday: Jam Packed<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">There have been a few blips but I am very grateful for people getting me back on track; the boyfriend helped me stupendously yesterday afternoon after I was having a meltdown as I was convinced I had ruined the wedding and lives of the couple I am doing a wedding cake for - some encouragement to breathe and emergency kittens solved that. I am also truly grateful to my Mum for sticking with me and the</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">se darned cakes even though I was a proper horror this morning; I am sure she thought her days with living with a hormonal teenager were over...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But despite all that it has been a good week. I delivered a cake on Tuesday that I cannot wait to share! I think it may be my favourite cake I have ever done; I didn't want it to go away! Now I just need to power through with the rest of this week's challenges and look forward to some down time and maybe a few gins at some point...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i>Things I Love</i></span>: Encouraging boyfriends and Mums with the patience of Job, rocking out to the classic rock that is Meat Loaf and singing along to Disney, coffee cake with coffee buttercream, Emergency Kittens on <a href="https://twitter.com/EmrgencyKittens" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXy6JElmgHU" target="_blank">this</a> new advert for Three, Charmed, rekindling my love for searching Pintrest, Disney Villain shoes!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14261474454806119524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258144345313185276.post-76945717832483280012014-02-22T17:32:00.000+00:002014-02-22T17:32:29.183+00:00Star Wars Themed 5th Birthday Cake<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Every time I think about this cake I get the Indiana Jones theme in my head. I think Harrison Ford makes Star Wars, and when I think Harrison, I think Indie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I didn't grow up on Star Wars; it's only recently my boyfriend introduced me to it (original, not those new things.) I enjoyed it but it didn't make me want to run off to outer space to save the galaxy in the same way Indiana Jones makes me want to buy a Fedora, run from boulders, destroy Nazis and save all the treasures.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">What do I love most about this cake? Well, obviously that the young chap who asked for it was called...wait for it....</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14261474454806119524noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258144345313185276.post-42470678584503462382014-02-20T18:26:00.000+00:002014-02-20T18:26:47.602+00:00Things I Love Thursday: Cake!<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So I have been riding the happy waves in to the week with only a minor blip last night when I realised how much I've taken on for next week but we'll survive and it'll get done, as it always does :)</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14261474454806119524noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258144345313185276.post-59586513312301419252014-01-24T10:30:00.000+00:002014-01-24T10:30:00.796+00:00Cake Time - Pink Cake Box's Two Peas in a Pod Christening Cake<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Sarah is a very good friend of one of my auntie's who moved to New Zealand many moons ago now and has just recently started a brand new chapter of her life over there by the arrival of twin boys: Sebastian & Noah. Too cute!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">While on holiday with the babies she decided to have them christened and asked us to do the cake!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The picture she sent over was super adorable and I was excited to put it together.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The original design of this cake is by <a href="https://www.blogger.com/%3Ca%20href='http://blog.pinkcakebox.com/search/peaS'%3E%3Cimg%20src='http://images.pinkcakebox.com/cake1269.jpg'%20alt='Pink%20Cake%20Box%20Cake'%3E%3C/a%3E" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">Pink Cake Box</span></a>, who have kindly allowed me to share my version of the cake. But I must stress that this cute design is all their work and none of mine! And do check out their <a href="http://blog.pinkcakebox.com/gallery" target="_blank"><span style="color: red;">galleries</span></a> - their work is the kind of stuff I only dream of being able to do!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I kind of feel I have been a bit slow about starting my year this year; my head is full of ideas and plans but at the beginning of the month I just didn't seem to have the motivation to even get started with any of them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Last week I went on a course for work and I think that was the reason I was unable to progress with the new year. I was going to have to be away from home for 4 days, do things that got me out of my comfort zone and socialise which strangers, something I don't do easily. As a result I had been dreading it for about 6 weeks to the point where I just wanted to hide under my covers. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As it turns out the course was fun, interesting and useful. And my fellow course-goers were interesting, lovely, and, being also from the heritage sector, very easy to get along with. (2 of the attendees were from Sydmonton Court Estate, country retreat of Andrew Lloyd Webber, dontcha know!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So, after a weekend of trying to catch up with sleep between work and making cakes, and a lovely day lunching and spa-ing (the massage kind, not the fighting kind) with my lovely friend, I am now feeling ready to start my year...ish. I still have that tax return to do...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So what do I want from 2014? Well, I just want more!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In summary, I just generally want to be more creative this year in all areas: coming up with cake ideas, business ideas, flavours, crafting, little projects, big projects, everything!<br /><br />I do intend to set more specific goals within these so I can see what I am achieving. </span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14261474454806119524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258144345313185276.post-49664854578674329872013-12-08T10:30:00.000+00:002013-12-08T10:30:00.172+00:00Cake Time: Every Little Helps - Tesco Van<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">She asked for a Tesco van! The reason being he works at Tesco...and <span style="color: #cc0000;">hates</span> it! We though it was cruel and she thought it was hilarious. And it turns out it had been a family decision so the whole family also found it hilarious! So we got in on the hilarity and quite enjoyed it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">But it got us thinking what would some one have to put on a cake that would really annoy us. For me, hands down, it would be a tin of baked bins. Oh man, how I hate beans!! :( </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14261474454806119524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258144345313185276.post-90972866145597829382013-12-05T10:00:00.000+00:002013-12-05T10:00:00.200+00:00Things I Love Thursday: Birthday Cocktails<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">One day, my Mum and I were in York, and over cocktails we decided that for her birthday we would have a dessert table/cocktail do (with a body shop party randomly thrown in there.) It was all very exciting and as we decided on this in October we really managed to convince ourselves that we would do some good planning and be super organised. Yeah, right...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So typically, things didn't look how I wanted them to, the outlook didn't look like it did in my head (there was no beautiful dessert table set up) and we had no time to take pictures of anything. Thankfully my cousins and their iPhones did some snapping for me, which I am grateful for! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But everyone enjoyed everything, there was a lot of laughter and love in the house, and my Mum had a lovely birthday, which, at the end of the day, is all that matters.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14261474454806119524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258144345313185276.post-85680968748432486762013-12-04T23:08:00.001+00:002013-12-04T23:08:25.800+00:00Dressember: Days 2, 3 & 4<div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">What could be better than something lacey and glimmery for a day of cleaning? Oh yes, I adorned a dress for scrubbing the kitchen floor, scouring the oven and working my way through a gigantic basket full of washing. It certainly made the jobs feel a bit nicer! I tied a bit of ribbon in my hair just to spruce up my pony tail and, paired with the pale blue dress, I spent the day feeling like Wendy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Wearing a summer dress in December. What craziness! It actually wasn't that cold so this worked well for wandering around the town getting out from the cold and in to the hot shops and back out again. Paired with a jumper and some woolly tights I felt practically snug!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I think this is one of my favourite dresses - pretty and practical I do wear it quite a lot. A little gem found at Tesco!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14261474454806119524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258144345313185276.post-3033489187175839482013-12-03T10:00:00.000+00:002013-12-03T10:00:01.750+00:00Cake Time: Ben 10<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Ben 10, Alien Force, Omniverse, Omnitrix, Ultimatrix, Nemetrix, Anodites, Osmosians... Stop me when you know what I'm talking about... Null Void, Techadon Robots, Ascalon... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It's actually pretty terrifying when you have to do a cake that spans multiple universes and has multiple seasons - how do you know what bits to put on on which characters should be included?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So for this Ben 10 cake, that needed Ben as the focus and his alien alter egos surrounding him on the cake, my mantra was - 'oldies but goodies'. I Googled a list of original characters and went with those. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">If these are the protectors of good, I would hate to see what the baddies look like!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14261474454806119524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258144345313185276.post-45694563547016545022013-12-01T22:47:00.000+00:002013-12-01T22:47:19.421+00:00Dressember: Day 1<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Dressember started in 2009 and challenged women (and men) to wear a dress everyday in December. You can read all about the history of Dressember <a href="http://www.dressember.net/#!history/c21kz" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">here</span></a> but what started as a bit of a personal challenge has now taken on new meaning and is aiming to put a stop to global human trafficking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am looking on Dressember as a personal style challenge and a chance to bring a little femininity into my icing sugar coated existence. Call me ridiculous but there is a huge difference between baking in your scruffs and baking in a pretty dress, and this is something I have neglected of late. Also moving in to 2014 I would love to have a fully formed brand established and I think this might be a good way of really getting in tune with my own style.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I am looking forward to seeing what I can dig out of the darkest depths of my wardrobe for the rest of the month. Hopefully by the end of the month I can pull off a better photo. And maybe brush my hair...</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14261474454806119524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258144345313185276.post-59248723994751665002013-11-28T18:26:00.000+00:002013-11-28T18:26:38.239+00:00Things I Love Thursday: Let's Give 'em The Remix<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Oh what a busy couple of weeks it has been and I have to say I have been loving it. Spending my days making cakes and creating is making my heart happy but it's hard work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But I had the most unexpected treat that gave me a night off on Monday night in the shape of (a very tiny) Bruno Mars.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">In exchange for playing Chauffeur to my Auntie and two cousins, I got myself a ticket to see Bruno in Newcastle. I wasn't so bothered about going and I had been asked by a friend when the tickets came out and I'd turned her down. Although his stuff is catchy, I didn't think I liked him enough to want a ticket.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Well let me tell you I am a convert! What an amazing show! He is such a good performer and his average pop songs seem to just come to life on stage. He is so slick at what he does and massively smooth - I even have to admit to swooning (just a bit though.) His band where incredible! They gelled together so well on stage and created the most fantastic '1930s New Orleans jammin' on the street corner vibe'. Loved it. My Auntie had been so excited about going for months and kept breaking out in to little squeals in the car but even she was silenced by him. And for someone whose alias is 'Loud Al' that is no mean feat!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">So what else have I been loving this week:</span> Rosie & Chloe - every time I see my younger cousins I think I adore them a little bit more </span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><img alt="<3" border="0" height="10" src="http://galadarling.com/images/heart.gif" style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: start;" title="doki-doki!" width="12" /></span><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> road trip picnics </span><img alt="<3" border="0" height="10" src="http://galadarling.com/images/heart.gif" style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Verdana, 'Lucida Grande', Tahoma, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 20.796875px; text-align: start;" title="doki-doki!" width="12" /><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"> Pringles (unfortunately) </span><img alt="<3" border="0" height="10" src="http://galadarling.com/images/heart.gif" style="background-color: white; 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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14261474454806119524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258144345313185276.post-68912718486462646022013-11-27T21:51:00.001+00:002013-11-27T21:51:08.007+00:00Warming Pudding: Treacle Roly Poly<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Many moons ago, for reasons I can't quite remember, my next door neighbour Oliver asked (using the word loosely here) if I could make him a treacle roly poly. I said I would and then got round to it about 3 months later. I have been rather busy but also I was putting it off because I'd never made one before and was slightly terrified at the prospect of it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Also, there are very few recipes out there for treacle roly poly; there are loads for jam ones and I wasn't sure whether I could substitute treacle for jam and just proceed in the same way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I decided I could and went with <i><a href="http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/13354/jam-rolypoly" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">this</span></a> </i>recipe from the trusty ol' BBC Good Food website. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">It turns out this was quite a good thing for me to practice: not only have I never made suet pastry but I have also never rolled or steamed anything so I was experiencing a few new things here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">The verdict? According to Oliver it needed a load more treacle. I thought I'd put in loads but maybe it had seeped out because I didn't get my roll right. I also thought that maybe treacle sinks into the pastry more than jam does so some of it may have been lost that way. I'll just go crazy next time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But other than that it went down well and tasted liked it should. But what wouldn't taste good fresh out of the oven and smothered in custard?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">As well as being a first for suet pudding, this post is going to be my first entry into Calendar Cakes as hosted by <a href="http://lauralovescakes.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Laura Loves Cake</span></a> & <a href="http://www.dollybakes.co.uk/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Dollybakes</span></a>. Hurrah! This month's challenge is 'Puddings' so I think this fits the brief nicely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Do head on over to Laura's <a href="http://lauralovescakes.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/calendar-cakes-november.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #cc0000;">blog</span></a> to see what other yummy puddings some talented bakers have been whipping up this month.</span>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">One day in September after work I met my family in the local pub where they had been having tea for my cousin’s birthday. No one thought to wait for me, by the way, or even order me a plate of chips. Or dessert. Rude.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Anyway, my Mum took along Rosie’s birthday cake and there it was sitting at the opposite end of the table minding its own business. Then there was a kerfuffle and the waitress who was clearing up, after much conspiring with my aunties, was making her way down to my end of the table. Apparently she was desperate for a cake and at this point any old cake baker would do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">She wanted a ruby anniversary cake for her parents at quite short notice and lucky for her I had just the thing!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14261474454806119524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258144345313185276.post-37626966097191609922013-11-04T20:17:00.000+00:002013-11-04T20:17:03.926+00:00Not a cake in sight: How I spent my Monday<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I could just make this post short by saying I spent it in bed but that makes me seem really lazy and I truely do have justifications for spending it in bed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Mount Grace Priory said good bye to the summer season yesterday, ending it on a beautifully crisp and bright autumn day. Although we don't close completely (we are still open on weekends) yesterday definitely had a 'last day of term' feel about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">It seems fitting that the weather today has shifted from being a bit chilly to rather cold and we actually had a frost on the ground this morning: winter is coming! I feel like I'm putting the summer to bed and embarking on a new season of winter projects and preparing for next season, which includes even more opening hours and the re-introduction of weddings on site! And if next summer is anything like this one, cakes will also be keeping me very busy. It's all so exciting but will be hard work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Which is why I took a day to have a completely self indulgent, lazy day in bed. It was amazing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I woke up (not late,) had some lemon water (because it's good for you,) did a bit of online window shopping, had breakfast, read Harry Potter (book 3,) read some more Harry Potter, finished Harry Potter, did some Pilates, had a shower, stuffed my face with Domino's pizza, felt sick and that is about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am not saying I won't have any more days off ever again but I felt like I had to get it out of my system early on as I intend to make full used of the next 5 months of enforced absence from work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">My plan is to use my time to make some serious headway with my business, and to work through all the ideas I've had, whether they are small and simple or the stupidly large and ambitious ones that were thrown around after one too many glasses of bubbles. I am going to dream big and explore them all. I want to work on my craft and come up with my own exciting ideas and creations. And most importantly work on my own self confidence when it comes to these things.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">But for now I think I will dig out The Goblet of Fire and get back in to bed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 18px;">I always dread a little bit being asked to make cake pops, mostly because my skills with them aren’t terribly reliable – sometimes they work great, other times not so much. I know a worklady shouldn’t blame her tools but I think the candy melts play a big part in whether the pops are going to be a success or not: sometimes they are beautifully smooth and perfect consistency, other times they are thick and lumpy. It varies from make to make and from colour to colour.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 18px;">So when they actually go right, like with this lot, I make sure I do a little happy dance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 18px;">These were for my cousin Oliver who loves the cake pops. He loves them so much that when my auntie asked if I would do him some I already had it in my diary because he’d already placed an order! His brother, Sam, also loves the cake pops but hates Halloween so he got some plain ones and everyone was happy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 18px;">These little Frankensteins are the most creative I have ever been with the cake pops and I was pleased with how they turned out. Could this be opening the door to cake pop adventure land? We’ll see…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 18px;">Again, I had more ideas in mind for these but time got the better of me. But I think Frankenstein and his bride turned out pretty well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 18px;">I got to do a Halloween cake…For my Nanna! Love it! Her country club put on a Halloween party so she wanted to have a cake to take to give to the committee to say thank you. Now that may sound very sweet but I was having nightmares about what she was going to say about this cake. My Nanna has entered that stage of life where she doesn’t care who she offends. (BTW I adore my Nanna she is the loveliest, most generous woman who just makes me giggle with her old lady sass!) So I was worried about the comments. The least terrible being: “yes,</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 18px;"> </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 18px;">Rosie</i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 18px;"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 18px;">it’s very nice.” The worst being “What on earth is that? It’s rubbish. I can’t give them that.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 18px;">When I Googled Halloween cakes this <a href="http://piccry.com/halloween-cake-decorating-ideas/" target="_blank">one</a> instantly caught my eye; I thought it was suitably grown up and just creepy enough. Mine is an amateur take on this one, which I just completely adore, but I think it turned out ok. My favourite bit is the black roses topper</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 18px;"> – makes me think of an eerie wedding cake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 18px;">Funny story – when I was trying to cover this, I accidentally hit myself in the chin with my silicon rolling pin. Those things are heavy. Given the noise that occurred I was lucky to escape a cracked tooth but I do have a bruise </span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 18px;">(thankfully)</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'; line-height: 18px;"> under my chin and my left ear just isn’t quite right. Baking is dangerous, kids.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14261474454806119524noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258144345313185276.post-84298740510308034242013-10-29T10:00:00.000+00:002013-10-29T10:00:01.223+00:00Cake Time: Candy Crush<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Hands up how many people are addicted to Candy Crush? I have to admit to owning it on my phone and I did get a little bit sucked in trying to get past some of the higher levels. I did draw the line when my app was making me play on Facebook - I spend enough time on there already stalking random strangers...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">I didn't quite get there with the correct Candy Crush font but I don't think I was too far off that you couldn't get the reference.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14261474454806119524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258144345313185276.post-10615014701216781792013-10-26T09:02:00.000+01:002013-10-26T09:02:06.416+01:00Cake Time: Gruesome Shark Attack Swimming Pool Cake!!<div class="ecxMsoNormal" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Yes, yes, I am one of those people who <i>love </i>Autumn. Any season that makes it ok for me to get out my hot water bottle and drink hot chocolate in bed is alright by me. And the Autumn colours, obviously! My place of work looks like this in Autumn:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">So as Autumn is slowly slipping away from us and the time for sloe gin and Christmas cake is nigh (actually, I don't like Christmas cake so I'll just have extra gin,) let's have a look at what I did with Autumn goodies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">Brambles, apples, plums & pumpkins. Three of those things I got for free right of the bush/tree! Amazing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The brambles came from my own back garden. We discovered the bush last year after we got very little gardening done due to the bad weather; this thing just started taking over the garden and then produce some lovely brambles. It turns out my Mum had taken a cutting from my auntie's garden years ago and forgot about it and had been cutting it back for a number of years, meaning we had no idea it was going to produce some delicious fruit until last year. This year we didn't dare cut it through fear of losing the berries. It is in the corner of the garden affectionately called 'the wild area'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">The plums came from work; we have a small orchard in the grounds that's made up of plum, apple and pear trees and bounty this year has been amazing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;">My apples didn't come from the Priory but from a castle! Nearby Richmond Castle was also enjoying a fruitful September and I sweet talked our gardeners into acquiring me some. (When I made a visit to Richmond the branches were far too high for me to get them myself!)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">After a successful</span><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> bash at making sloe gin last year, I knew I was going to make more liqueurs this year, and because we had such an abundance of fruit I was able to make a couple.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I used </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.drinksmixer.com/drink5945.html" target="_blank">this</a> </i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">recipe for the plum liqueur and </span><i style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><a href="http://theboysclub.net/ian/diy-blackberry-liqueur/" target="_blank">this</a> </i><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">one for the blackberry one. (Note: if you get minute have a look through The Boy's Club site - their cocktails are inspirational!) Nothing to report here as I just followed the recipes and both are still doing their thing! I did run out of vodka for the blackberry so topped it up with white rum. I'm sure it'll be fine...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">One word: crumble. In our house the fruit is a necessary evil. We would quite happily (and have been known to) eat a bowl of crumble with some custard. I used James Martin's recipe for the crumble (110g/4oz butter, softened - 110g/4oz demerera sugar - 180-200g/6-7oz plain flour just lightly rubbed together and baked on a baking sheet for 15 mins at 190/170/gas 5) and then I used this </span><a href="http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/778642/apple-and-blackberry-crumble" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;" target="_blank">BBC Good Food</a><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> recipe for the fruit. Delicious! I love warm brambles - they remind me of when my Nanna used to make bramble pie. Even the smell gives me that nostalgia. Yum! She should get on that again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Guess where I went for my soup recipes? Well done - BBC Good Food. The <a href="http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/7730/pumpkin-soup" target="_blank">first</a> one was a little but onion and cream heavy - maybe it only needed one onion but the onion taste is why my mum liked it so much so each to there own. The <a href="http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/775669/thai-pumpkin-soup" target="_blank">Thai</a> one had such an amazing fragrance - it just smelled of Thai It was little thinner than the first one but I think that's just the style of Thai soup but it certainly had a lot more flavour and a definite kick from the red curry paste but was maybe lacking in the taste of the ginger, although I think that might be my own fault.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">So I might not be winning any awards for culinary originality but I have enjoyed baking and eating things that I have foraged for. Ok, so very little foraging took place but I found the process of baking things that I knew to come directly from the source extremely satisfying. And I just can't wait to get my hands on the sloes in a couple of weeks time!<br /><br />Vicky xx</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14261474454806119524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258144345313185276.post-74227308515816884722013-10-22T10:00:00.000+01:002013-10-22T10:00:05.197+01:00Cake Time: Spongebob Squarepants<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">Oh Spongebob, you crazy…sponge! You are my most favourite character to make for cakes because you are square and that makes me happy. Ol’ Bob is also a character that comes to life very quickly after only a few details and I enjoy watching that transformation.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">My favourite part of Bob is dusting his sponge hole thingys with green lustre dust – that just makes him come alive! There's those details again! They are my favourite – even the simplest ones.</span><br />
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</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14261474454806119524noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258144345313185276.post-18378711030015605892013-10-19T10:00:00.000+01:002013-10-19T10:00:07.292+01:00Cake Time: Angry Birds<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">My cousin Oliver wanted an Angry Birds cake for his birthday. On his birthday he got Angry Birds everything. Apparently Angry Birds has sky rocketed from being a simple, free phone app to some kind of phenomenon. I think there’s even a cartoon and the birds have names!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The idea of using Kit Kats as the wooden hiding places was not mine; I saw the idea on another cake that has since disappeared in to thin air. But props to you if it was your idea.</span><br />
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The pigs and birds were <i>almost</i> fun to make; I would have enjoyed them a lot more if it hadn’t been a sweltering day in July and the icing hadn’t melted whenever I went near it.<br />
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And the birds turned out ok too but they were even more melty because they require a bit more handling to get them in to shape. And getting them to hold their shape in the heat was a nightmare.</div>
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But overall it was a fun and effective cake. Best part? Left over KitKats.<br />
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</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14261474454806119524noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-258144345313185276.post-52230090339770892862013-10-17T10:00:00.000+01:002013-10-17T10:00:11.009+01:00Cake Time: Birthday Cakes<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">By friend-of-a-friend links and a touch of coincidence I was asked if I would take on a job for a local marketing and branding company, Better Branding Agency.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; text-align: justify;">As many offices do, they celebrate employees’ birthdays with cake but this lot don’t do it by halves. In place of a chocolate cake from Tesco, they make a big deal of it and have proper, full on, decorated birthday cakes. And I think it’s a fantastic idea.</span><br />
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The lady who had been doing the cakes previously had to give it up due to being so busy she was unable to commit to the orders. Good for her and good for me.</div>
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This came about through doing a cake for a friend’s family member’s son, who is friends with a boy whose mum works for Better and who approached me to do the cakes. After a bit of discussion and nervousness on my part I was away with my first request.</div>
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They’ve been pretty specific with what the want on the cakes which is great but it also meant I was a little bit lost doing the first one. My first order was for Julie who likes tea, credit cards, Seabrooks prawn cocktail crisps, diamonds and stationary. And the end result looked a bit like this:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">How much 80s paraphernalia can you fit on a cake? (Probably loads more!)</span></div>
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PacMan 4 life.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">The most recent one I did was for a member of staff who doesn’t like cake. (I didn’t think those people actually existed.) So instead he got a flapjack smothered in melted milk chocolate. I wish I had a picture of this one because it looked so yummy I wanted to put my face in it. I think it was just nice to have a break from cake, and to be honest I’d put my face in anything covered in melted chocolate.</span></div>
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So that’s what I have done so far and am anxious to see what the next cake brings!</div>
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