Jemma Lloyd, one of our lovely Cupcake Heaven and Baking Heaven contributors, has opened a new online shop, which is packed with so many gorgeous baking products we couldn’t resist sharing it with you! Iced Jems is an Aladdin’s Cave of treasures for the passionate baker, offering everything from tea party cookie cutters to tea [...]
We all love baking cupcakes, but now we can extend our hobby to reading about them as well with the release of the new book Hot Cakes: A Novel With Recipes by Kim Newman-Wood. When Bex Mason-Smythe’s husband gets made redundant, she decides to go back to her passion for baking to save her designer [...]
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It’s Valentine’s Day and if you haven’t got your romantic meal planned out yet, we have a delicious dessert idea for you in the form of GBBO winner John Whaite’s Valentine’s Day Raspberry and Rose Creme Brulee… Valentine’s Day raspberry and rose creme brulee Ingredients – Serves 2 About 10 raspberries 250ml whole milk 50g [...]
Baking isn’t just about producing delicious treats to eat, but it’s also a wonderful way to enjoy some ‘me time’ and indulge in sensory pleasures. A group of young women are set to discover all this and more on a visit to the young adult’s hospice, Douglas House, in Oxford. On 5 February, with some [...]
It’s 3 December and many of you will have made your Christmas cake weeks ago, now all you need to do is to ‘feed’ it on a weekly basis and add the beautiful decorations. But if you haven’t got around to making your cake yet, there’s no need to despair as Wright’s flour has come [...]
Biscuiteers has become renowned for its eye-catching, beautiful iced biscuits and now it has set up an icing cafe and school where you can learn how to create them yourself. We catch up with co-founder of the company Harriet Hastings to find out more… Where did the idea for Biscuiteers come from? I was [...]
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Cake decorating is a really popular hobby at the moment – in fact our first edition of Cake Decoration Heaven proved to be such a hit that we’re going to bring you more editions next year – but what’s the best way to learn new skills? There are so many methods to choose, including group [...]
Emma Goss-Custard founded Honeybuns Bakery in 1998, inspired by her grandmother’s recipe book that had been handed down to her. Now Honeybuns has become one of the most popular gluten-free bakeries in Britain. Food Heaven caught up with Emma to find out more… How did you first become interested in baking? I first became interested [...]
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Lallapolosa Baking Company only came to life in early 2012 but it has already won a Great Taste Award. We find out a little more about how the company came to life… Elyse Savage knew she had a love affair with baking from an early age, spending her formative years developing a unique, passionate approach [...]
There’s been much talk in the media lately about cocktail cupcakes so we asked Nicci from Gingercups to tell us about how they began making ‘caketails’ and what the response has been… We started making our first two flavours of caketails back in 2011 – Champagne and Cosmopolitan. The idea was formed from a [...]
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