Baking How to Make an Olivia Rodrigo Spotify Cake Posted on July 8, 2025September 8, 2025 By Becky When your daughter turns 13 and tells you she wants a Spotify Cake with a quote from Olivia Rodrigo on it, you drop everything and make it happen. Because turning 13 is a big deal. It’s the start of teenhood, Spotify streaming on loop, and lots of Olivia Rodrigo. So… Read more
Baking The Perfect Jam Swiss Roll (No Cream): A Mum’s Easy Guide to This Classic British Bake Posted on July 6, 2025July 6, 2026 By Becky Let’s talk about one of my absolute favourite nostalgic bakes: the classic jam Swiss roll. It’s one of the first things I properly nailed after years of watching my mum make it, and it’s still the bake I reach for when I want something that looks impressive but takes… Read more
Baking How to Make an Easy Star Wars Birthday Cake Posted on July 1, 2025August 22, 2025 By Becky If you’ve got a little Jedi turning 8, there’s no better way to celebrate than with a homemade Star Wars birthday cake—especially one that’s tall, chocolatey on the inside, yet packed with galactic character on the outside. For my son’s birthday last week, I made a 4-tier Star Wars chocolate… Read more
Baking Ultimate Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies Posted on June 5, 2025June 6, 2025 By Becky One of our favourite pastimes now the children are older, is to bake with them. Freddie in particular often suggests it, and will go and get one of our many cake/bread/biscuit recipe books, before picking out our ‘weekend recipe’. Both him and Sasha love the whole process- from beginning to… Read more
Baking Our Family’s Traditional Christmas Cake Recipe (Perfect for the Holidays!) Posted on June 5, 2025October 10, 2025 By Becky Key Takeaways This traditional Christmas cake recipe uses a family-tested method that guarantees a moist, flavourful result every time You can make this cake with or without alcohol – both versions are absolutely delicious The recipe includes flexible timing options: start weeks ahead for a mature, boozy cake, or bake… Read more
Baking Toffee Apple Cake Posted on June 5, 2025October 15, 2025 By Becky Key Takeaways This toffee apple cake uses a classic Victoria sponge base with caramelised brown sugar apples baked right into the top layer The whole cake takes under an hour from start to finish, including baking time You only need basic storecupboard ingredients plus three eating apples The brown sugar… Read more
Baking Coffee and Pecan Cake Posted on May 20, 2025May 20, 2025 By Becky So the kids have been all about the baking at the moment, which in a fit of I’m-missing-you-as-you’re-at-school-so-of-course-you-can-do-any-activity-you-like-as-long-as-it-makes-you-happy, misty-eyedness, I have given them free-reign of the kitchen, with maybe a teeny bit of input from me. In this case, I had a bag of pecans that needed using up so decided… Read more
Baking Homemade Pesto Focaccia Bread with Cherry Tomatoes Posted on May 20, 2025May 20, 2025 By Becky Good morning! So this weekend just gone was mostly spent at home cooking and baking. It’s rare that we actually have a weekend totally at home (I didn’t leave the house for two whole days), but when we do, food and the making of it tend to be on the… Read more
Baking Decorating Iced Spiced Biscuits (Ginger Frosted Cookies) Posted on May 16, 2025May 20, 2025 By Becky On Friday, whilst Freddie was at Preschool, I decided to prep some biscuits in advance, in order for him, Sasha, and their cousin to decorate that afternoon. Our baking cupboard is brimming with all sorts of edible decorations that need using up, so this was the perfect opportunity to let… Read more