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Nutmeg Ice Cream

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nutmeg ice cream

It’s never the wrong time of year for ice cream. I enjoy making it all year round but I vary the flavours depending on the season, spring and summer are all about fresh fruits and refreshing flavours whereas in autumn and winter I mostly make ice creams spiked with spices and booze.  This nutmeg ice cream is perfect for autumn and winter; nutmeg to me is the quintessential flavour of the season and this delicious ice cream makes a great replacement for vanilla to serve with fruit pies, crumbles, tarts and cobblers….

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Gingerdead Men – Voodoo Doll Gingerbread Men

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voodoo doll gingerbread men

Halloween is the perfect time to have some fun with baking and these gingerdead men are certainly fun. Made from a delicious spiced gingerbread dough and decorated to look like voodoo dolls complete with sweetie pins for stabbing them with, they are a great addition to a Halloween party spread and much enjoyment can be had torturing them with sweetie pins before eating them….

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Halloween Two-Tone Rose Red Velvet Cupcakes

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rose red velvet cupcakes

I like Halloween (being a gothess I suppose that’s a given!), but I prefer the more elegant side as opposed to the gory one – deep colours, vampires, witches etc. I wanted to bake something that was Halloweeny, but also attractive, so I went for red velvet cupcakes decorated with red and black two-tone roses. Both roses and the colours red and black are very prevalent in gothic imagery.

I’d been itching to try this two-tone piping effect for a while now and thought that it would work perfectly with these cupcakes (my piping technique really needs some work though…)….

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Spiced Poached Pear and Frangipane Brioche Tarts

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spiced poached pear brioche tart

This recipe took a couple of go’s to get right, the first time I made them, the tarts were delicious but the frangipane sort of exploded and spread everywhere, they tasted good but looked a mess. I was determined to get them right and not be defeated by a tart; so I tried again with a few tweaks and they turned out beautifully!…

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Pesto Bread Wreath

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Braided Pesto Bread

I bake a lot of my own bread and think that it might be what I enjoy baking the most, but I am quite fussy about what I make, I don’t tend to make much in the way of plain loaves of bread, when I bake I want it to be interesting and flavourful….

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Ginger Chocolate Cake

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Ginger chocolate cake

My fiancé doesn’t get excited by food like I do, while I want to try everything and have the most enormous, varied list of things that I want to bake that I am unlikely to ever be able to work my way through, he is a little more set in his ways about what he likes. One of the things that he does love is chocolate cake, and he has requested that there always be a supply in the freezer in case a craving hits….

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Grape Bread

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Grape bread

Have you ever had a disappointing grape? You know the ones that look all plump and crunchy but when you bite into one it’s just a bit…soft? I ended up with a punnet of them the other day – tasty looking but just didn’t hit the mark. But I hate wasting food, I will go to great lengths to attempt to use up anything that would otherwise be thrown away (unless it’s actually gone mouldy, I don’t go quite that far…), so I racked my brains to try and come up with something to do with them….

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Streusel Topped Apple Brioche

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streusel topped apple brioche

I lost all form of self-restraint when I baked this ( not that I had much to start with). I was incapable of going into the kitchen without gobbling down a slice it was so incredibly moreish. I got through nearly half of the loaf by myself in a day, and it is not a small loaf… I justified this gluttony by telling myself that the apples counteract the butter…right?!…

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