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Let Her Bake Cake
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Not hippie and not healthy: my favourite granola

The granola in the photo above is so good that I just. Cant. Stop. Eating. It. Ive been munching it all day, despite swearing this morning that Id limit myself to one ramekins worth with milk. (Yes, ...

09 jan 12

Happy Holidays from Let Her Bake Cake

25 dec 11

Khalids chocolate and chestnut bars

The other day I was chatting to a caterer over the phone about my upcoming wedding menu. "So what desserts do you like to eat?" she asked. I dont know about you, but although I spend a huge a...

11 dec 11

An American in Paris: Sugarplum Cake Shop

My parents and sister sped off to Paris on the Eurostar on Friday morning. This means I can finally post this long overdue entry on my blog. Allow me to explain... My sister and I are, er, competitiv...

20 nov 11

Nigellas marmalade pudding cake

As a kid I was a pretty picky eater. My sister was a seriously picky eater, so in comparison I probably didnt seem that bad, but there was still a reasonably lengthy catalogue of no-go foods that nee...

24 oct 11

Back to school with oat plum crisp / crumble

Summer is officially over, school is in session, and our street is filled again with scruffy teenagers who hog the sidewalks and manage to make what is actually a very natty uniform look vaguely vagr...

21 sep 11

What Ive baked

Some recent treats from my oven...Eles pizza dough (topped with tomato sauce, eggplant, kalamata olives, hot salami and buffalo mozzarella)Dories Dimply Plum Cake

09 sep 11

Grandmas butterscotch cookies

Wherever my grandmother is, there is usually good baking around too. Several of my childhood favourites came from her originally, including these refrigerator butterscotch cookies, which my mum made ...

30 aug 11 1 person likes this

Santa Monica Farmers Market

The Sunday morning Main Street Farmers Market in Santa Monica is more like a fair that happens to have a market tacked on. It features live music, plus pony riding, a mini petting zoo and toys for th...

11 aug 11

California and a chocolate crunch cake

Of course the week that summer decides to arrive in England, Im off to California. So much for boasting about the sun and heat Im going to be basking in... weve already got it here. In fact against a...

03 aug 11

An (almost) perfect recipe: Cherry, nut and oat bars

Theres a program here on the BBC called Grumpy Old Women, in which well known women of a certain age rant about things that annoy them. Despite the fact that I am a mere 31 years old, I could star on...

12 jul 11

Conquering driving and pavlova

When we moved from London to the Midlands last September, I was incredibly nervous about the fact that I would have to start driving in England. While I had happily avoided this terrifying prospect d...

03 jul 11 1 person likes this

Study sesame

I’ve finally resurfaced from a month of study hell, and boy, does it feel good. The lack of posting around here has mainly been attributable to the fact that I’ve been studying for a biology exam tha...

18 jun 11 1 person likes this

Storecupboard baking: Garibaldi biscuits

Er, there were some Garibaldi biscuits there. Unfortunately they were so good we ate 77% of them before I got round to taking a pic.Garibaldi biscuits are one of the things I make when I have nothing...

22 may 11

My cake

We’ve discussed Kate’s cake. Now let’s talk about my cake!Yes, I have a wedding cake in my future. Not in my super-immediate future, mind you. Due to various issues – one family wedding already sched...

13 may 11

Loving... the Beater Blade

My mixer is back! I have to take a moment to sing the praises of KitchenAids customer service (and of Edward, because without his initiative in actually contacting KA and getting the darn thing sorte...

09 may 11

Kates cake

The dress was absolutely gorgeous, wasnt it? But what did you think of the cake?As I mentioned back in November, Im no lover of over-the-top royal wedding cakes. But this one wasnt terrible as these ...

04 may 11

More rhubarb and royal wedding telly

Here in England we have definitely entered Royal Wedding Week. This fact is immediately obvious to anyone who dares to turn on a radio or, worse, a television set. If it’s not a royal-weddings-of-yor...

27 apr 11

Big Sur browned butter rhubarb bars (try saying that five times fast!)

By this time of year, I am so thoroughly sick of "winter fruit". By this I mean the usual imports plus the single domestic offering found during the darker months: apples, oranges, bananas, a...

20 apr 11

Birthday guest post by Edward: it IS rocket science

I turned 31 yesterday. It was a great day - I came home from work to my friends having arrived from Canada for a visit, plus lots of lovely cards and presents - and a cake! I had been harassing Ed ab...

07 apr 11

Salvage

I know this has nothing to do with baking. Please stick with me anyway. Im so excited, I have to share.Theres a shed out the back of my house that is filled to bursting with old, dusty, mainly broken...

05 apr 11

It must be spring

It must be spring, because Ive had my traditional spring cold all week. I get this cold every single year. I sneeze all day, my nose becomes a red, raw carbuncle, my ears are so blocked I can barely ...

27 mar 11

Exhausted, but perfect, flapjacks

Theres a reason that tray of treats looks like its curled up in a blanket, about to go to sleep.Thats where I want to be. I am so tired. So flipping tired. Work has kicked up about eighteen notches, ...

16 mar 11

Notes from my broken life

I spent all of last week looking out at that view. Pretty stunning, no? The photo was taken from the main room of our chalet looking down onto the village of Val dIsere in the French Alps. Edward and...

05 mar 11

Gone skiing

18 feb 11

Birthday bundt cake

Last December I was temping for a small company where the Christmas card was king. Everyone distributed a twee little holiday greeting to everyone else, except for the people who preferred to donate ...

14 feb 11

Good luck (and a good brownie, too)

First things first. The winner of the beautiful Rusted Chain cupcake necklace is entry no. 36 (generated with random.org)... Diana! Her favourite sweet treat is red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese ...

31 jan 11

A Rusted Chain giveaway

I get quite a lot of email from companies wanting things from me (quite often free publicity!), and I ignore or decline the vast majority of them. But occasionally a pitch is so perfectly well-aligne...

27 jan 11

This is not an Edward cake

Whats under that adorable vintage cake dome? Something Edward wont eat. I am in "bad girlfriend" territory this week apparently, due to my insistence on baking a cake that I like and he doesn...

21 jan 11

Babies, bumps and blueberry crumble muffins

Not my baby. Not my bump. But I do have a lot of both in my immediate future.When I left my publishing job in London this spring, just prior to going travelling and moving up here to the Midlands, I ...

16 jan 11

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