Zoë: Beetroot Chutney
We get a weekly organic vegetable box which is great most of the time, however recently we have ended up with more beetroot than we can use. To avoid wasting any of it I made some beetroot chutney. I used Nigella Lawson’s Beetroot and Ginger Chutney recipe from her Christmas book, this recipe is also ...
Granny Square Biscuits
Having already written about sewing biscuits last week I unexpectedly came across some granny square cookies. These biscuits are from Emily and Amy’s Treats and full instructions are available on their blog if, like me, you feel like trying to make some. On this delicious blog you can also find button cookies, yarn ball cupcakes, and quilt block ...
Sewing Biscuits
I love these amazing biscuits from Biscuiteers, everything you would find in your sewing basket can be found in biscuit form. They are iced in lots of detail using lovely colours. The tin is really pretty too and would make a useful sewing box when you had eaten all the biscuits.
Meetup: Maple Leaf Workshop Part Two
On Wednesday, I ran the second part of the Maple Leaf Patchwork Workshop. It was a lovely evening, a little more relaxed than the first workshop. I spent my time cutting wadding for people, getting people started on the next stages and eating Zoe’s yummy oat biscuits. You should definitely make some of these; in ...
Christmas Party Recipes
At the Christmas party this year, we had some yummy treats which our members brought in. Katie and Katharine have kindly shared their recipes with us. Chocolate Pumpkin Loaf Katie found this recipe at The Post Punk Kitchen, which looks like a great resource for vegan recipes. I will only post the ingredients so you ...
Top Tip Tuesday: How to Decorate a Cupcake
Image source: Decorate this Regular club members may remember the cupcake decorating session we had a while back. In that vein, here is a helpful tutorial on Decorate This blog on how to use different piping tips to make your cupcakes look really professional (and tasty). Doesn’t she make it look easy?!
Top Tip Tuesday: DIY Cookie Cutters
One of my favourite elements of Everything Alice was the tutorial on DIY cookie cutters. Many a time have I cooed over pretty cookies, wishing that I had the appropriately shaped cutters to recreate them. Now I just raid my collection of cleaned, disposable tin trays (M&S ready-meal trays are of an ideal quality!) and ...
Meetup: Cup Cake Decorating
This Wednesday we had a fun evening of cup cake decorating. We covered making piping bags from greaseproof paper, piping buttercream and making icing and marzipan decorations. Caroline’s marzipan and icing cake tops were amazing, and she made it look so easy! Everyone producing some impressive cakes, here are just a few of them, more ...
Caroline: Christmas Crafting
(Reposted via Caroline’s personal blog, second hand shopper) Well, I wanted to schedule this post to go live between Christmas and new year, but then there was the whole stranding thing, and everything got squidged into a ridiculously short time and, well, scheduled posts got lost at the bottom of the to-do-list-bucket. Still, better late ...
