As a rule I don’t like to use box or packet mixes for baking but every so often I am sent one to try and I’m always intrigued by them and their results. A few weeks ago a box landed on my desk at work and I opened it to find four cardboard tubes of packet mixes from the The Little Sins Cupcakery....

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30 weeks! I can’t actually believe it if I’m honest. It doesn’t feel that long ago that I wrote this post when we reached the 20 week mark and found out we were team blue. Since then time has flown by at an alarming rate. I’m feeling good bar the tiredness and backache. If I’m sat in the one position for more than...

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A few weeks back an interesting email dropped into my inbox asking me to create a festive banana recipe. Now I enjoy a good banana cake as much as the next person but never would I consider banana as a festive ingredient. I mentioned it to a few work colleagues and I was met with the same response “Banana? At Christmas?” I tend...

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I can’t believe it’s been 4 months since our wedding day and I know it’s an old cliché but time really has flown! It’s been so grey, grim and miserable this week and along with having a cold and sore throat I thought I would cheer myself up by sharing some photos of our amazing day on here. I’m such a control freak...

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Come winter I love a big bowl of my mum's stew. Since I moved out I have tried on many an occasion to recreate it but even though I use the same ingredients as her it never tastes the same. Maybe it's the Irish air or some secret ingredient that she won't tell me about but it is the perfect winter warmer. As...

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A few weeks ago it was my nephew’s 8th birthday and as has been tradition for the past few years he asked for a cake instead of a present and this year’s choices was a Sweetie Cake. Now Mr O is not a fan of icing and the more traditional “celebration cakes” but he’s a boy who definitely knows what he wants and...

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I’ve just realised I haven’t blogged since the start of November and it’s December next week – major oops on my part as I’ve got a few product reviews coming up that really need publishing. Life has been so crazy lately between one thing and another that my poor blog is once again taking a back seat. I’m still battling tiredness through this...

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Monday again and it's now November! How on earth did that happen?? Yesterday we nearly bought the pram. We went to the Mamas and Papas factory shop in Huddersfield as so many people told us to visit it. I have had my heart set on the Bugaboo Cameleon but it's expensive and our plan is to see if we can get it second...

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I've talked many times about my love of brownies - seriously what is there not to love? Chocolate, gooey, indulgent.... I could go on and on! I actually meant to post this recipe months ago but somehow it got stuck in drafts. Ah well... better late than never! Since I found the best ever brownie recipe from Billingtons I now use it as...

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Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE Pregnancy is a weird thing with food and my own body issues. At the start I was worried I wasn’t gaining enough weight but now at over 22 weeks I have gained around 13lb and I’m really struggling with it. I know it’s positive weight gain and I’m still lighter than I was when I...

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Errr how is it almost the end of October? Where has this past month gone??   We've had a few busy weekends and last weekend was pretty exciting. Mr T woke up on Saturday morning and decided we needed to get away for the weekend. I was happy to book a hotel in the Dales but he wanted something more exciting and within...

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I love chocolate, like I really love chocolate and I have shared a lot of chocolate recipes on here. For the early part of this pregnancy I had totally gone off baking but now I've got a little more energy and the nausea has passed I've started getting back into the kitchen a bit more often. A few weeks ago I was having...

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Have any of you become the "cake person' among your friends and family? The one people turn to when they need a cake making for a special occasion? That has become my role, my friends often ask me to make a cake for them instead of a gift and I'm always more than happy to oblige. A few weeks back my bestie Rhianne...

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Yup! Team Blue for us woohoo! I can't believe I'm 20 weeks already, this pregnancy is whizzing by. The first trimester was taken up with the wedding then I found weeks 12-16 dragged; I was in a weird limbo but then time suddenly sped up and next thing we know we were sat at the Hospital ready for our 20 week scan. This...

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