By now I consider myself to be a pretty decent baker. I know my way around the kitchen (when it comes to sweet stuff, at least – I’m an average cook) and I can think up a good recipe. Apparently, though, that doesn’t mean I know how to handle a microwave. I tried to squeeze […]
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Some of you might be wondering: “what does Harry Potter have to do with Christmas?” Well, let me explain! Not all that much, really. Yet, for some reason, the Harry Potter films have become a part of Christmas for a whole lot of people around the world. Perhaps it’s the cosiness of the earlier films, […]
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The second recipe of the Festive Fortnight! This is one I’m especially excited about. It’s marshmallows! I tried making marshmallows before over two years ago, and it was quite a failure. Back then I was unsure what I did wrong, but now I know I didn’t use the right type of gelatin (the stuff I […]
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I’m sure most of us can list a couple of things we don’t like about winter, like the cold or how it gets dark so frickin’ early (if you sense some frustration here… you might be right), but isn’t it way more fun to talk about our favourite things about winter instead? My favourite thing […]
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The Festive Fortnight has now officially started! I’ve been looking forward to this moment for over a month – and now it’s here. Hurrah! I baked this cake over a month ago as well; it’s the first Festive Fortnight bake I made. At first, I wasn’t too sure this cake was going to be a […]
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Only two weeks until Christmas! Who’s excited?! Since I started this blog, an inadvertent annual tradition has made its way into my Decembers; it consists of me kicking myself for not starting work on Christmas recipes earlier in the season. I love Christmas, and I love Christmas recipes, but I mostly end up not posting […]
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That sounds rather dramatic, doesn’t it? Well, that’s because I’m feeling rather dramatic about this whole macaron making business. Back in June 2014, I tried making macarons for the first time, and it didn’t go horribly wrong, but it didn’t go right either. Then in September of 2015 I tried making them again, and my […]
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. It’s been ages since I did a Top Ten Tuesday. In fact, this is my first one this year – and it’s almost December. Yikes. This week’s topic is books you want to read this winter. Now, I know I just did a post on my […]
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I think it’s fair to say that I read a lot of books. I mean, I’ve got a book blog, for crying out loud, so this is a major case of “no shit, Sherlock”. Yet, despite being an avid reader, I never read comic books. The only thing I ever read (and I only just […]
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I was looking through my shelves earlier today, trying to find inspiration for Instagram pictures, when I noticed once again that there are SO many books about which I’ve been telling myself that I’ll “read them as soon as possible”. Every book blogger (and probably every bookworm in general) is familiar with this problem, of […]
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Books Baking and Blogging 