Family Bake Off

The children have been watching the Great British Bake Off and the Junior version as well.
 They have taken to this with great gusto and glee discussing the contestants and recipes in great detail. This is where I thought they would leave it but I got the book anyway.

They completely surprised me. They have read, re-read and read again the book. Marked the recipes they want to cook, which is most of the sweet ones and then pruned it down to their favourite 20 or so. Then the cooking started.



Alice was the first with Queen of Sheba, page 278, continued p280. 'A luxuriously, rich, elegant chocolate and almond cake.' This took her the whole of Saturday afternoon to make, involving whisking egg whites and folding them in and making chocolate shards. The result was a truly stunning cake both in taste and appearance.

The cookbook is now decorated with flakes of chocolate and Alice's annotations.

Back to the news on Azique and Fabric and Ribbon.  Azique has gorgeous personalised Christmas sacks, perfect for all the presents Father Christmas will bring plus sweet Christmas print hairbands and scrunchies in their own organza gift bags - perfect for stocking fillers.

Fabric and Ribbon now has Christmas half metre packs of all of our Christmas fabrics, in four different combinations, just perfect for all your Christmas crafting projects.  These packs are a wonderful 10% cheaper than if you bought the fabric separately.  Hurry up and grab your bargain.  Free postage over £20.

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