Every year we like to make Christmas muffins at this time of year – ideal for packed lunches and much more child friendly than a slab of Christmas cake! Ingredients 300g plain flour 3 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon cinnamon Half a teaspoon ground ginger 125g dark muscovado sugar 200g…

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Cooking with ginger always makes me think of Christmas – must be something to do with festive gingerbread men – so this week, we stuck with the seasonal theme and made a banana and ginger cake.   Ingredients 125g butter 150g golden syrup 100g light muscovado sugar 2 bananas 2…

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As some of you will know, me and the hubby recently celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary, and we were lucky enough to receive a letterbox cake from Baker Days. The idea of a letterbox cake is not something I had come across before, but I think it is a fantastic idea.…

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A little while ago, we were sent a lovely package from Tefal: This is the Jamie Oliver carbon steel set, containing a muffin tin, a loaf tin, a square baking/roasting tin and a round baking tin. Now, as readers of my blog will know, we love to bake (especially cakes)…

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