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• Baking With Spirit: The January Challenge

  

  Happy New Year! I hope you all had a great New Year celebration, whatever it consisted of. I spent the evening making punch with my friend and then drinking sai... Read more

  Posted on 01 January 2015 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Baking With Spirit: The Festive (2014) Round Up

  

  Welcome, one and all, to the final Baking With Spirit round up of 2014. I trust that you all had fabulous Christmases, and now can't stand even the thought of... Read more

  Posted on 29 December 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Mint Chocolate Cheesecake

  

  If there is one cheesecake you make this year, let it be this Mint Chocolate Cheesecake.I don't know where the time has gone this month, but I have managed abou... Read more

  Posted on 21 December 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Baking With Spirit: The December Challenge

  

  I don't know about you, but I am so ready to get on the Christmas train this year. After work today I am going to rush home so that I can put my tree up whilst... Read more

  Posted on 01 December 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Cranberry/Apple Muffins

  

  I recently started on a new team at work, and have been much happier as a result. I am now on a smaller team with fewer political headaches, and instead of... Read more

  Posted on 30 November 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Baking With Spirit: The Warming Round Up

  

  I think we've been successful this month in willing the seasonal weather to come through by baking warming desserts. We started the month at close to 20C here i... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Brandy Apple & Caramel Upside Down Cake

  

  I've been reading Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast for about two years now. It's a trilogy set within the walls of a large and oppressive castle, filled with strange... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Baking With Spirit: The November Challenge

  

  I am aware that East Anglia benefits from the London Warming Effect, but I'm pretty sure it's not normal for it to be 20C on the first day of November. Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Baking With Spirit: The Autumnal Round Up

  

  Autumn is now in full swing: there are few green leaves left on the deciduous trees, the clocks have gone back (here in the UK) and the night skies will... Read more

  Posted on 29 October 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Rioja Chocolate Cake

  

  I sort of forgot to mention, but earlier this month Cake Of The Week had its third birthday. I stop and think every now and then about whether I really want to... Read more

  Posted on 26 October 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• White Chocolate Chip Biscuits

  

  It feels like I lost my baking mojo for a while. Posts became less frequent and I stopped baking every week. This was partly because I was busy doing other... Read more

  Posted on 21 October 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Caramel Apple Crumble

  

  Long-time readers of Cake Of The Week may remember my quest to recreate a Caramel Apple pie that used to be served in a childhood local cafe. Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Happy Cake

  

  As long-time readers may remember, I only moved to Cambridgeshire just over a year ago. I didn't know anyone in my local area and had to make friends from... Read more

  Posted on 05 October 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Baking With Spirit: The October Challenge

  

  Does the fact I initially wrote "The September Challenge" give you any idea as to how poorly I have wrapped my head around the concept that it is now October? Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Baking With Spirit: The Acquired Tastes Round Up

  

  Did you know that I set up Baking With Spirit two years ago? No? Probably because I forgot to mention that this is your favourite boozy challenge's birthday... Read more

  Posted on 29 September 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Ginger Beer Cake

  

  I actually meant to post this last weekend, but I didn't have my camera's memory card to hand and only just got back to it yesterday (reasons will become clear... Read more

  Posted on 28 September 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Blackcurrant Macarons

  

  Towards the end of the month I'm doing a little road trip around the South of the UK. I'm visiting my cousin in Brighton, my parents and some old friends in... Read more

  Posted on 07 September 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Baking With Spirit: September 2014

  

  After many years of enjoying the smell (and my friends enduring me asking to sniff theirs), lately I have acquired a taste for beer. This has got me in the... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Baking With Spirit: The "Go Crazy" Round Up

  

  Due to technical difficulties at the start of the month, I was a little late posting this month's Baking With Spirit Challenge. Read more

  Posted on 30 August 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES

• Chocolate Tart

  

  Well it looks like we're having another dreary bank holiday weekend. I spent the first two days in Norfolk watching my good friend Ross Woodhouse (expect big... Read more

  Posted on 25 August 2014 FOOD & DRINK, RECIPES