#batch baking

Recipe Post: Christmas Cookie Extravaganza

My friend Kat and I have a festive tradition of going bawls-out over December and trying to BAKE ALL THE THINGS!!! for gifts and our own celebrations. This multi-day effort usually happens at my house because I own all the cool kitchen gadgets EVAR and have a larger kitchen in which to have more than one person working at a time. This usually leads to a grumpy husband who can’t understand why the…

Fancy an Oreo cupcake? Here's the recipe - watch out, they're addictive...

Recently, I’ve been baking a weekly batch of cupcakes to share with a charity I’m volunteering at. Every Friday we sit down together to enjoy a home-cooked lunch, finished off with a freshly baked cupcake. This week, I arrived with a batch of Oreo cupcakes – a chocolate sponge, topped with a mound of sweet Oreo buttercream and a whole Oreo cookie, plus there’s a sneaky Oreo surprise in the bottom…

My lovely husband Mr Stanton baked me some delicious spiced cookies - find the recipe here

Making sweet things never came naturally to me. At Food Tech, aged 15, I attempted, what I didn’t think was that ambitious for my first project, strawberry marzipan. It came out a pink gloop more like ice-cream left out in the sun. I’ve had a couple more baking disasters, including a very well done cake (Chocolate and Charcoal). If sweet stuff is created, it is Mrs Stanton that does it. However,…

Mary Berry's double chocolate cookies are one of my favourite things to bake

I love Mary Berry. Ever since the first episode of the Great British Bake Off aired in 2010, I have been a huge fan of both the lady herself and her recipes. Mary’s recipe for double chocolate cookies is the best I have found to date. It is in her Baking Bible, and combines five ingredients to make a batch of thirty-six sweet, gooey cookies. This was the first recipe that I tried from Mary’s…

Enjoy the sunshine with my raspberry ripple ice-cream cupcakes #summerbaking #bakefortheweekend

With the sun finally shining in London over the last couple of weeks, I was invited to my first barbecue of the year, and wanted to take along a sweet treat. I decided to bake some raspberry ripple ice-cream cupcakes for two reasons… One – they are delicious! And two – they really have the wow-factor! I love the surprise on people’s faces when they see me arrive with a tray of ice-cream cones,…

I like to bake something every week, which means I often need to find quick, simple bakes that I can fit into evenings once I get back from work, or squeeze into a weekend morning before I’m off doing errands or having adventures. Since creating my recipe for ginger snapsa month ago, I’ve been experimenting with different combinations of flavours to make batches of biscuits, which can be stored…

I love to entertain family and friends at our flat. It gives me an excuse to bake and experiment in the kitchen, without feeling obliged to eat the whole lot afterwards. When Mr Stanton and I were on our honeymoon in Sri Lanka, we hand-picked Ceylon tea and brought it home as a souvenir. This, coupled with our family wanting to see our honeymoon photos, gave me the perfect excuse to create an…