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White Rabbit, Rose & Lemon Marble Cake
Welcome to the recipe for White Rabbit, Rose & Lemon Marble Cake! There's no need to give this cake too much description, as the White Queen did such a good job of it in the Mad Tea Party post....
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Gluten-Free Iced Summer Fruit & Meringue Parfait
This iced dessert, adapted from a great recipe by Nigel Slater, is a multi faceted gem: fresh berries and apricots are mixed together with home made ice cream and meringue to create a gorgeous cake...
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My Mother's Garden
My darling Mum has worked so hard building my parents' garden from scratch in the last year, and it's really paid off. The garden is turning into a riot of colour. The delicate jewels of blooms take my...
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Gluten Free Painted Brown Sugar Cupcakes
I heard someone on the radio the other day say "Idleness is only a coarse name for my endless capacity for living in the present". It rang so true to me. I've been so involved in the present lately,...
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Berry Cordial
The choice is yours, whether to make blackberry, raspberry, strawberry or even tayberry or blueberry cordial! When I made this a while ago I plundered our home grown tayberries, but now the shift in...
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Cherry & Thyme Loaf
Simple and scrumptious, this frosty topped cake is fast becoming a warming new tea time favourite of ours as the autumn cold creeps in.RecipeMy ownServes 8175g unsalted butter, room temperature175g...
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A Halloween Invitation
Hold on to your bedpans, the Halloween blog party is drawing near! I have been invited by the delightful Vanessa Valencia to a spooky Halloween celebration to be held by bloggers across the world....
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Double Chocolate Brownie Cake
This is a variation of the brownie cake I've blogged before. This particular version has become known as a real crowd pleaser in my family. As my Mum puts it, "it is so intensely gorgeous that you just...
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Russet & Green
a particular golden sunshinelayer on the woollieswalk in the crisp cold air bakebiscuits andpieseat hot crumbly cake straight from the ovenmake wishes a tarte tatin with the very last of the...
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Gluten Free Chilli Brownies for Halloween
Story has it that red chilli peppers are associated with the devil, thanks to the hellish heat they leave in one's mouth and the shape of the little peppers curving like devil's horns. These brownies...
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The Witching Hour, Halloween 2012
Her Kind by Anne Sexton I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light by light: lonely thing,...
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Halloween Cake: Skull & Blood Raspberry Jam Cake
My apologies for the delay in posting my Halloween Cake! Here it is in the full scrumptious goryness.RecipeMy own recipeServes 8-10For the white chocolate skull, mice and hands etc:approx 300g white...
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Berry Red
early morning frosts still the worldair cold enough to turn your breath to great gusts of steam. in the kitchen, you sprinkle icing sugar like frost over little christmas muffinswarm yourself by the...
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Honeyed Plum Pavlova
I baked this heavenly pavlova for our New Year's Eve dessert. As it was the first time in many years that all my family could get together for the New Year, the evening was to be a source of much...
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Westcountry Apple Cake
I've been meaning to blog this cake for months, so it's no longer entirely seasonal, but better late than never eh! Apples can be found any time of the year now anyway, particularly if you're looking...
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Raspberry & Blood Orange Nest Cupcakes
These scrumptious little cupcakes are just the thing to bake when you need to bring some sunshine into your life. and as this cruelly cold winter drags on, sunshine is something I'm missing terribly....
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Raspberry Bakewell Cake
This is a variation of the Bakewell cake I've baked before, but this time with a raspberry flavour instead of the original cherry gluten free version posted here. If you ask me it tastes of May,...
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Invitation to The Mad Tea Party 2013
Psssst! Said the White Rabbit, News just in!The marvellous Vanessa Valencia ofA Fanciful Twist has invited us to her 6th annual Mad Tea Party! With cakes, and sweets and oh so many delights, it's...
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A Mad Tea Party for the Twelve Dancing Princesses
Are you sitting comfortably, my dears? Then I'll begin.Once upon a time there was a White Queen. She invited her eleven sisters to take tea with her, and eagerly awaited their arrival.She had heard...
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Summer Pudding
I've always wanted to make a classic Summer Pudding, but it intimidated me: the architectural construction of firm-enough bread walls; the nerve wracking inversion of the pudding basin, watching with...
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Orange Blossom & Almond Bird Cake
The beauty of this bake is that it is as simple, or as fancy, as you wish it to be. The base is a lovely zesty orange and almond country cake, the topping a super sweet fantastical affair.I had a lot...
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Gooseberry Crumble
When it comes to the crunch, nothing gives more comfort nor more satisfaction than eating a crumble made from fresh local fruit. Whether that's with gooseberries from the garden, or the newly harvested...
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Happy Hungry Halloween
Chocolate Spiderweb Cupcakes, see my recipe here Skull & Blood Raspberry Jam Cake With White Chocolate, see my recipe here "Broken Bones" Toffee Hazel Loaf, see my recipe here...
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A Mad Tea Party in Idle Wonderland
Once upon a time there was a dear small kitten called Nico, whose amber eyes and sweet smile won her many friends. She lived with her human mother Emalina, in a big old country cottage on a high hill...
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Warm Salted Caramel & Banana Tartlets
Perfect to end a gluttonous dinner a deux, the banana and salted caramel of these tartlets are a match made in heaven. These tasty bites are very easy to create and take no time at all, so what's not...
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