This is how it ends. And this is how it starts. It was a working bee. Layers and pieces laid out on the floor, like Christmas paper and gifts ready to be wrapped. In years past when I had a larger salary of my own to toy with there were surprise parties and trips away […]
baking
Here’s the shocking thing. I don’t have much of a taste for chocolate. I just don’t fret and crave it like others do. When Easter rolls around it’s all about roast lamb and the novelty of fake fluffy chickens. The same sentiments apply at other holidays. If there are chocolate ornaments on our tree they’re […]
It’s a combination that goes together like hats and gloves, or pink wine and sunshine. Coffee and banana bread. One just makes the other that little bit nicer. It’s about having something warm in both hands. It’s the way that the bitterness of the coffee plays with the sweetness of the sticky sweet over ripe […]
Each year, a month before our birthdays we were allowed to pull a chair up to the pantry. On the fifth shelf, behind some stray party hats and slumping candles was The Book. To me and my sister the magic of birthdays came straight from the Women’s Weekly Birthday Cake Book. Once we’d brought the […]
First it was cupcakes. From awkward at- work birthday celebrations, to baby showers and hen’s nights. They were everywhere. Then it was macarons. Now it seems like there’s a new contender for coolest kid of the confectionery class. I’m talking about whoopie pies. Faddism be gone. To me these are worth it for the novelty […]