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Some recent baking! Click on any of the images to see them on Instagram.

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Fault Line Cake: Phew it’s been a while, since I

Fault Line Cake: Phew it’s been a while, since I posted. Very busy studying and working my supervised shifts at mo. Really enjoying it but wow it’s changed, not the basic care but the technology and the amount of time spent documenting and using the computer. Loving being back but I’m not the greatest technology wise so that’s going to take me a little time. This cake was delivered today for a lovely lady to share with her friends tomorrow with afternoon tea. It’s 6 sponges: chocolate fudge cake with chocolate liqueur, vanilla sponge and layers of orange buttercream and chocolate ganache. Decorated with a whipped chocolate ganache. Found making this very therapeutic and I’ve decided that I need to make room for a little more baking in my life at mo so there’s a few recipes I want to try out and I’ll post them if they work. Have a fab week guys. 🤗.😍 #baking #homebaking #homebaker #cake #cakedecorating #chocolate #chocolatecake #faultlinecake #cooking #bakingtherapy

Painted Cake: This is the finished birthday cake m

Painted Cake: This is the finished birthday cake made on request for a very lovely person. It’s copied from her favourite painting, which you can see in the next photo. The cake itself is a chocolate fruitcake, loaded with cherries soaked in chocolate liqueur, it’s covered in white marzipan and fondant icing. Been an emotional day today after nearly 8 years of volunteering at Maggies cancer centre I had to say goodbye. I start my pathway back to nursing. The first part working as a support worker back at Addenbrookes / Cambridge with the induction starting next week 😬 I shall miss Maggies but I’ll pop in catch up and hopefully still do the odd cover. Just need to see how the shifts etc work first. I’ve absolutely loved every minute of volunteering there each week with the most fantastic and supportive team, I’ll really miss it. #cake #baking #homebaking #homebaker #fondantcake #art #artcake #cooking #bakingtherapy❤️

Holiday Cake: A small painted cake made on request

Holiday Cake: A small painted cake made on request to fit inside a suitcase to take on holiday. I’m working on a larger one with a hummingbird design for the actual celebration. This is a Jamaican spiced fruit cake, covered in white marzipan and fondant. Have a lovely weekend everyone 🤗 #cake #birthdaycake #fondantcake #homebaker #cooking #celebrationcake #bake #baking #bakinglove

Stollen Wreath: Happy Easter everyone. 🐣This re

Stollen Wreath: Happy Easter everyone. 🐣This recipe is from @bbcgoodfood and is delicious. Thought this would make a change from hot cross buns for sharing tomorrow. It’s super light and fluffy and definitely a keeper. I’ve had a quiet, reflective Easter week but catching up with friends and family this weekend. It’s also been so lovely to have the sun, this past week and to feel Spring. Have a lovely Easter everyone. 🤗#easter #stollen #stollenwreath #bread #breadbaking #baking #homebaker #cooking

Simnel Cake: Happy Mother’s Day 💐This is a li

Simnel Cake: Happy Mother’s Day 💐This is a light fruit cake with marzipan in the middle and on top. Recipe for this one from @bbcfood It is distinguished from other cakes in that it has a layer of marzipan in the middle and on top and 11 marzipan balls to represent apostles minus Judas. The Simnel cake goes back centuries and it was originally a dough fruit bread. They often used saffron back then to achieve the distinctive yellow colour. Simnel is mostly eaten at Easter and is associated with Lent and Mothering Sunday. In Tudor times Mother’s Day was a rare day off for servants to visit their ‘mother church’ if they could taking cakes and flowers as a gift. This particular one is going to the vicarage. Have a fab day everyone 🤗 #simnelcake #easter #mothersday #baking #bakinglove #homebaker #cakedecorating #cake #bbcfood

Retirement Cake: I was given the brief from my gor

Retirement Cake: I was given the brief from my gorgeous friend can you make a cruise ship themed for a work colleague’s retirement do. The request was for a Victoria sponge with cream and jam, 2 tiers decorated in fondant. So here it is 😊it’s a lot bigger than I planned for and actually this one was quite quick to make. Have a fab weekend everyone 🤗#cake #cakedecorating #homebaker #baking #fondantcake #themecake #cruiseshipcake #bakinglove

Happy Pancake Day everyone 🤗 ok yes this is a r

Happy Pancake Day everyone 🤗 ok yes this is a re post but I thought hey why not they’re bright and colourful. Have fun everyone whatever pancakes you’re making today 😍 #pancakes #pancakeday #baking #homebaker #homecooking #shrovetuesday

White loaf: This is a basic white loaf recipe, I j

White loaf: This is a basic white loaf recipe, I just decided to use some food colouring to half the dough and then randomly twist them together. Sometimes it’s fun to just play around and see what happens, you can see in the next photo how it turned out post bake. I’d encourage anyone to just have a play and see what you can create. I’ve been a bit busy with a recent nurse application recently. After 14 years away I decided to return to practice. The first stage in that process is joining the bank as a health support worker at Addenbrookes in Cambridge. I had my Interview, Thursday conditional offer was made and will start induction soon. Very excited but at the same time a bit nervous . I looked at the salary and was seriously shocked. Now I know none of us go into nursing for the salary, it’s a vocation, a calling a need to care but ………😳#bread #bread-baking #bake #homebaker #cooking #homecooking #dough #baking #bakingfun

Birthday Cake: When one of your lovely friends ask

Birthday Cake: When one of your lovely friends asks you to make a birthday cake for their son’s 16th birthday…. how can you refuse ? He’s a gorgeous lad whom I’ve known since a baby and a keen rugby player and is on track to play professionally 🤞First attempt at making a rugby ball cake, at one point it looked more like an egg, maybe it still does 🤣Anyway dropped it off last night after a day volunteering at the community lunch and joined in the birthday celebrations, before heading to another birthday party with another birthday cake in situ. Have a fab weekend guys 🤗 #birthdaycake #themecake #rugbycake #rugby #baking #bakinglove #homebaker #fondantcake #fondant #cake #cakedecorating

Cinnamon Buns: This recipe is from @breadaheadbake

Cinnamon Buns: This recipe is from @breadaheadbakery and is absolutely delicious. In fact they were so popular I need to make another batch soon. The recipe uses dark brown sugar so you get a lovely caramel flavour too. I’m super excited today as a friend has managed to get Madonna tickets for a few us for October at the O2 🎵🎤 Never seen Madonna live in Concert, despite enjoying her music so can’t wait. Wonder if she likes cinnamon buns ? 🤔😊 #cinnamon buns #bun #baking #homebaking #homebaker #bread-baking #bread #breadaheadbakery

Biscuit Art: Amazing what you can do with a little

Biscuit Art: Amazing what you can do with a little royal icing and a piece of gingerbread. A palette knife and it’s like working with acrylics, can create an abstract landscape in literally minutes, seriously. Go on have a go ….. Have a great weekend guys. I’m off out now to see a friends kittens, with my son ( seriously cute moment) doubt I’ll want to leave 🤣#biscuit #biscuits🍪 #baking #homebaker #art #biscuitart #bakingtherapy❤️

Comic Cake: So again Happy New Year everyone 🤗

Comic Cake: So again Happy New Year everyone 🤗 Phew it’s been a busy week, but managed a bake tonight. Comic cakes seem to be quite the trend at the mo and it looks like they are here to stay. Now I always like to try a trend so I did this one quickly tonight. I made a 6 layer chocolate fudge cake and I filled them with an orange chocolate caramel buttercream. I then decorated with fondant icing. I finished it just before midnight but had some jazz music playing to keep me company so it was quite relaxing. Im definitely going to experiment more with this trend . Plus I’ll also neaten it up next time, this was a practice one and a little rushed, well that’s my excuse anyway 🤫🤣 . Have a good week everyone whatever you’re up to and take care 😍#comiccakedesign #cake #cakedecorating #baking #homebaker #bake #fondantcake #buttercream #chocolatecake #comic #comicthemecake #cakes #cakeart #bakinglove

Happy New Year Everyone ! May 2023 bring you all h

Happy New Year Everyone ! May 2023 bring you all happiness and peace. Hoping too for those dreams that you aspire to, to hopefully come true 😘 Thanks for all your support this year and to my friends and family Thank-you for being there and being amazing in what has been a tough year. Here’s to a better year and lots more baking … sending you all hugs 🥂 🤗 #newyear #baking #homebaker #kingscollegecambridge

Merry Christmas Everyone! Have a fab Christmas &

Merry Christmas Everyone! Have a fab Christmas & New Year. Take Care everyone and sending seasons greetings to all, here’s to a better 2023 🤗 #baking #homebaker #christmas #cake #fondantcake

Christmas Cake number 3: Gone for a slightly arty

Christmas Cake number 3: Gone for a slightly arty one this time. Edible colours mixed with vodka on fondant icing. Cake is a traditional fruit cake but the dried fruits are soaked in mulled wine left overnight and then drained. The lovely cake stand is by @emma_bridgewater and was given to me as an Xmas/Thank you gift by the @maggiescambridge team last year. Hope you’re all having a good weekend, I’ve decided to mainly stay inside today making industrial quantities of mince pies . Take care 🤗 #cake #cakedecorating #baking #bakinglove #artcake #homebaker #fondantcake #christmascake

Stollen: Well one good thing about lots of snow i

Stollen: Well one good thing about lots of snow is that it’s a perfect excuse not to go out and just bake. Something comforting about being snug inside and bread baking. This recipe was from @breadaheadbakery . It came out really well, was so easy and delicious 😃I just changed the glaze to a dash of toffee vodka mixed with ginger syrup. On Monday I spent an hour and 20 mins walking through the snow to the hospital, trying desperately not to fall over and laughing with various sixth form students on route to college, all struggling too. I was also trying to balance carrying a carrot cake 🤔. I resorted to getting a taxi home end of the day, didn’t fancy spending the night in A&E. Anyway hope you’re all keeping warm and safe and enjoying building snowmen and having snow ball fights etc .. take care 🤗 #baking #homebaking #bake #bread #bread-baking #breadaheadbakery #stollen

Christmas Cake number 2: Painted cakes seem a big

Christmas Cake number 2: Painted cakes seem a big trend at the moment so I thought I’d apply a bit of abstract art to the next one. This is a gin and earl grey fruit cake. It’s covered in marzipan and fondant icing and I’ve used cocoa butter mixed with edible colours to create the design. Love how you can use fondant as a canvas for art. Right cake number 3 next 😍 #christmascake #christmas #cake #fruitcake #baking #bake #homebaker #homebaking #cakedecorating #fondant #bakinglove #baking

The first of many Christmas Cakes: So it’s that

The first of many Christmas Cakes: So it’s that time of year when I’m industrially making Xmas cakes. This one is for Maggies for the charity raffle. It’s to go in the hamper with the many other great goodies. I asked many visitors what they wanted and they said simple, yet traditional . So a basic fruit cake fed with sherry and a little gin. Covered and decorated in fondant. Currently working on cake and design number 2 . Take care guys 🤗 #baking #homebaker #cakedecorating #cake #christmas #christmascake #bake #fondantcake #fondantdecoration

Raspberry & Chocolate Macarons : More macaron baki

Raspberry & Chocolate Macarons : More macaron baking this time with chocolate and freeze dried raspberries. Been a mega busy week so haven’t had so much time to bake. In fact so busy I got a text Tuesday saying where are you ? I’d completely forgotten I was supposed to be at a drinks thing, then they told me it was their birthday which made me feel a million times worse, lots of apologies etc etc 😮 I spent yesterday helping cook Xmas dinner for 50 for the community lunch. Phew that was a busy one. I think £5 for a full turkey roast Xmas dinner, pudding and tea coffee is amazing value and yet they were still in prophet for charity. Along with helping cook I was tasked with waitressing . Though as someone joked helping me we were more Fawlty Towers than Michelin star 🤣 Plus it wasn’t until everyone was half way through their dinner we realised the cranberry sauce was still in the car 🤣. Love those events very busy but super team of volunteers and such a laugh. Plus seeing everyone so happy is what we all need right now. 🤗. #macarons #bakinglove #baking #homecooking #chocolate #raspberry #bake #homebaker

Pampusky: This is a Ukrainian garlic, dill bread d

Pampusky: This is a Ukrainian garlic, dill bread designed to be torn, shared and eaten with soup etc … the recipe is from @bbcgoodfood and is from Valya Kandaurova . I adapted it slightly, filling it with cheese and pickles and then splitting the dough and twisting. It’s absolutely delicious, a must if you have time this weekend to bake. In fact I made it again the next day it was so delicious. It has milk and butter added to it to give a lovely soft texture but a slightly crunchy outside. Sun is shining, sky is blue looks like a lovely day to go for a walk, so that’s what I shall do 🤗 #bbcgoodfood #baking #breadbaking #bread #homebaker #pampusky #cooking #homecooking #garlic #dill

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