After many weeks of sweet treats and sugar I decided to off-set the scale with savoury and plenty of salt. I haven’t made bread in a while because, while the steps are simple and the ingredient list short, proving is time-consuming. However I had some time over Christmas so I could wait the hour it Continue reading

This week I made ginger sandwich cookies and golly golly gosh are they delicious. I always use baking soda and baking powder interchangeably or if the recipe says ‘baking soda’ I’ll do half baking powder and half baking powder because science. They’re soft and rose a fair amount so they don’t look like the images Continue reading

This week I made a coffee, cardamom, and walnut traybake. I love the flavour of cardamom and the uniform squares of a traybake are so satisfying. One of my small joys is when people see them they say ‘How did you get them to all look so neat and the same?’ and I smile and Continue reading

After a month of no baking I returned to the wooden spoon with a banana bread. No, we haven’t jumped back two years and are back in lockdown again, I just love a bit of b bread. I used to say I didn’t like it because I don’t like bananas, but then one day I Continue reading

This week I am back and baking up a storm! What better way to return than with a matcha and raspberry loaf cake. I love matcha but got put off cooking with it when I watched Bake Off once and Mary Berry said she thought the taste was ‘grassy’. I don’t think it’s grassy at Continue reading

There’s no baking post this week because I’ve been unwell and have been using every extra minute I can claw onto to rest. I am so bored of resting now. When I’m ill I feel so lame and weak, like a sickly Mediaeval child waiting for the Quack to come round and tell me I’m Continue reading

Moving back to London has meant reconnecting with my secondary school friends and it’s been a real pleasure. I hadn’t seen them since I moved schools for sixth form and I always followed their lives on Instagram but was unsure if we’d ever be active friends again. We were friends from ages eleven to sixteen; Continue reading

I decided to do another easy bake this week. I was worried about messing it up and then being afraid to go near my mixing bowl ever again, so I chose lemon and poppy seed cake. I never used to mind being bad at things because I felt if I practised them enough I would Continue reading

I wanted to start easy for the return to the wooden spoon and I needed an occasion to bake for. I have thought about baking again a few times since I moved, however I always found an excuse not to, normally ‘I’m tired’ – it’s pretty fair, I am often tired. Somehow when I have Continue reading