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Chocolate Fudge Masquerade Cupcakes with a Bourbon Vanilla Buttercream

Chocolate Fudge Masquerade Party Cupcakes

November 16, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

In collaboration with We Bake, the community that rewards you for baking. When it comes to birthday parties it has been known for me, on occasion, to go completely over the top. I absolutely love baking birthday cakes and will spend days carefully crafting sugar paste decorations for my own children’s celebration cakes. Regular readers …

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Spiced Apple Cake

Spiced Apple Cake

November 6, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

I dreamt about apple cake last night. True story. This is likely because I had set aside today, Sunday, to deal with the contents of my refrigerator. This included three beautiful Bramley apples I’d requested my teenage son buy for me the other day for a commissioned recipe, and then decided not to use. It’s …

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Chocolate and Peanut Butter Swirl Halloween Spider Cake

Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Halloween Cake

October 12, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

Three layers of peanut butter and chocolate flavoured cake swirled together sandwiched with peanut butter frosting and topped with a milk chocolate ganache and a giant Halloween spider. A recipe in collaboration with SKIPPY® Peanut Butter. I confess that when it comes to Halloween I really am still a child at heart. I grew up …

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A Selection of Cupcakes for Afternoon Tea

A Selection of Cupcakes for Afternoon Tea

September 30, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

One batch, twelve flavours, in collaboration with Crock Pot.  I do love a good cupcake, me. What’s better than a good cupcake? A selection of good cupcakes! Who has the time though (or the waistline) so make six or twelve dozen cupcakes to get a variety of flavours to serve at an afternoon tea party. …

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Pineapple Upsidedown Cake with Vanilla Custard

Pineapple Upside Down Cake & Vanilla Custard

September 13, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

In collaboration with Redmond Multicookers. Nothing beats a bowl of hot creamy custard on a cold Autumn’s day when the chill is in the air and you can smell the winter coming. Except, perhaps, if it’s hot creamy custard that you’ve made yourself, and it’s served over a slice of still-warm pineapple upside down cake! …

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Pistachio & Coconut Cake with Rose Syrup

Pistachio & Coconut Cake with Rose Syrup

September 9, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

Creative cake-baking just for the fun of it on a dark, dreary, rainy Autumn day. I made a cake! I made a cake and I’m really rather chuffed at how well it turned out. You see, I’m currently going through an ’empty the store-cupboards’ phase in preparation for stocking up for winter. The fact is …

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Kitty Cat Funfetti Fairy Cakes

Kitty Cat Funfetti Fairy Cakes

August 25, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

In collaboration with Whiskas Cat Food. I am of the firm belief that a home isn’t a home unless a cat is part of it. There has always been a cat in our family for as long as I can remember. A year ago a new addition to our family was born – Echo, the …

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Chocolate and Vanilla Cupcakes

Chocolate & Vanilla Cupcakes

April 30, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

In collaboration with the RNLI – the charity that saves lives at sea. This is my husband’s most favourite cupcake recipe. They are super simple to make and never last very long in our house. I made them for my husband as a, um, well, “I’m sorry” for actually swooning over a real life bonafide …

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Lavender and Lemon Bundt Cake

Lavender & Lemon Bundt Cake + Bake Box Review & Giveaway RRP £80

April 10, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

In collaboration with Bake Box. Silicone baking moulds have to be one of the best inventions to hit the baking world, ever. Yet they scare me. Especially elaborate silicone bundt moulds with all sorts of little nooks and crannies for cake to get stuck into, entirely ruining the look of a bake. I confess that …

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Raw Cacao Cupcakes - A slightly more healthy Easter treat

A Slightly More Healthy Easter Cupcake Recipe

March 24, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

A somewhat more healthy chocolate Easter treat made with raw cacao. Wednesdays are pudding nights in our house. This (in theory) stops the kids from asking for sweet things after every meal through the rest of the week. In theory. It doesn’t actually work like this, but I do try. Some of you might have …

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Dark Chocolate & Bourbon Vanilla Steampunk Cupcakes

Dark Chocolate & Bourbon Vanilla Steampunk Cupcakes

January 12, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

An Optimum ThermoCook recipe. It’s our wedding anniversary this coming weekend. Two years ago in gale-force winds my husband and I got married. It was a small ceremony with close family and friends with an overnight stay in a hotel and a lovely meal afterwards. Nothing too extravagant. It was a steampunk wedding though. (You …

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Carrot, Beetroot & Ginger Juice Pulp Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Carrot, Beetroot & Ginger Juice Pulp Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

December 4, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

This week saw another birthday come and go. It was also my blog’s 4th birthday. I haven’t quite reached the big 4-0 yet, but 39 is too darn close for comfort. I don’t know how this has turned into A Thing for me, but it has. It’s been playing on my mind for awhile, so …

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Chocolate Hazelnut Layer Cake

Chocolate Hazelnut Layer Cake

October 17, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

aka how to salvage a failed attempt at making chocolate hazelnut spread. I like experimenting in my kitchen, I really do. Sometimes (quite a lot of the time, if I am to be honest!) it doesn’t quite go according to plan. I had a notion to make some homemade chocolate hazelnut spread recently. Ok, if …

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Hungarian Plum Cake Recipe with Almonds

Hungarian Plum Cake Recipe

October 7, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

This quick and easy Hungarian plum cake is a great way to showcase fresh, seasonal plums. It’s very nutty and delicious, perfect with an afternoon cuppa. Post updated 16 August 2018. “Mum, why it so windy?” It’s that time of year again. The gales have returned causing ferry transport disruptions. It’s getting dark early and …

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Carrot Cake with Flora Cuisine

Carrot Cake with Flora Cuisine

September 15, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

In collaboration with Flora. Carrot cake is one of those ultimate comfort food cakes. It’s incredibly tasty, moist, delicious, and with plenty of grated carrots it surely contributes to your five a day, no? It’s loaded with vegetables, surely it has to be good for you! In this recipe I’ve teamed up with Flora to …

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Summer Fruits Cake

A Summer Fruits Picnic Cake

August 25, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

Sun, sea, sand and a summer fruits loaded picnic cake! It’s really not been much of a summer to speak of, here in Shetland. Saying that, I don’t think the UK mainland has been particularly blessed with an abundance of rays this season either. We’ve had a couple of good weekends – see our camping …

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Cherry & Almond Crumble Cake Squares

Cherry & Almond Crumble Cake Squares

August 19, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

Think bakewell tart, but better. Rainy days mean baking days, no? Our car has been sitting in the car park at our local garage waiting to be looked at for over a week now – the little circle on the dashboard with the exclamation point is staying illuminated while driving and the last time I …

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Chocolate Courgette Loaf

August 16, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

aka Cocoa Zucchini Bread depending on what side of the pond you’re on! It’s veg box season! Each week we get a gorgeous surprise selection of whatever happens to be ready to pick. I’m not fussy with what I get; I’ll work with whatever is in season, but I have to confess that courgettes are …

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Tunisian Orange Cake

Tunisian Orange Cake

July 25, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

A light and fluffy gluten free orange and almond cake soaked in citrus syrup. I had a proper day off yesterday. I woke early with no imminent deadlines to worry about, it wasn’t raining, and I could fill my day with what I pleased. It was bliss!

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Sockerkaka

Sockerkaka – Great Grandmother’s Sponge Cake

July 20, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

A Scandinavian celebration cake with layers of sponge, cream and fruit. I feel I must apologize for the recipe blogging silence of late. Regular readers will be aware that back in February I took on a part time job in our local village shop – a little something to get me out of the house …

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