house and garden
Frosting with a difference!
Well, the new oven is in, after a mild panic when it arrived without a cable ….. but it is in now and working perfectly.. and its cooking a piece of gammon as I type! And, at last I have found the time to finish our Christmas Cake – the mini ones from my earlier [...]
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas…..
The tree is trimmed, there are fairylights everywhere… In the lounge.. In my bedroom window.. Even a snowy village scene in the dining room.. The cards are arriving… my Christmas Cactus that I resurrected from the near death experience it had when I forgot to water it and its leaves turned paper thin [...]
Mini Christmas Cakes mmmmmm….
A couple of weeks ago when I made my Christmas cake I had a lot of mix left over – well my tin size was smaller than the recipe stated and, rather than adjust the mix I thought I would bake the extra in loaf tins and make mini Christmas cakes, here they all [...]