Ian's Birthday!

Ian's birthday and as we had friends coming over I thought I should make the effort and make him a birthday cake. While he was out at golf yesterday with his mates I made a red velvet cake, then sent him out later in the day shopping with Freya and managed to get it iced and decorated. The girls made daddy out of lego and the rest of the accessories.

As well as the birthday cake I spent the rest of the day yesterday making soup and baking sausage rolls, pasties, cheese muffins and brownies so we had some home comforts to eat after a cold morning at Blenheim Palace today with friends. It was lovely to catch up with them all and the next time we will see them there will be a new addition! I hope it all goes well, good luck!

Happy Birthday Ian, hope you had a lovely day! xx

Break Time!

After break time yesterday, when everyone was coming in to the staff room hoping for a biscuit to go with their tea or coffee and there were none, I thought I would bake some treats to take in for today. What with the rain and the weather getting colder a sweet treat is definitely needed sometimes.

Yesterday I made Stem Ginger Crunch, Date and Walnut Flapjack and Chocolate Refrigerator Cake. To make sure no one feels guilty about having more than one piece I have cut them all into bite size chunks. I'm sure this will put a smile on people's faces come 10.55am!

Baking Blip Over!

After a good few weeks off from home baking both my girls and I are glad that I am back on the case. I had an extra day off yesterday and after a lovely morning of shopping (new dress and shoes!) I thought I would hit the kitchen.
Megan had been asking me to make some cookies, however, was more than pleased to come home from school to discover that I had made chocolate caramel shortbread (one of the girls' favourites). We also have a Year 4 meeting at school on a Thursday morning so I thought I would make some individual carrot cakes to take in for that. Well I actually ended up making 30 and there are only 5 of us in the meeting so I'm sure the rest of the staff will appreciate them too!

Time to load up the car (it's raining again!!) and off we go.