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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Meal Planning Monday! It's been a while since I did one of the posts. Our weeks have been quite hectic and my appetite has been so strange that I don't always stick to what I have planned. If I had my way I would be living off spag bol for this whole pregnancy but Mr T would not be happy with that. I've...

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September saw the launch of the much anticipated second Clandestine Cake Club book, A Year of Cake. Regular readers of this blog will know that I love cake club and I am the organiser for the Wharfedale club. I was also lucky enough to have one of my recipes featured in the book; my Eton Mess Cake – woop woop! This book is...

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Last week I posted this chocolate pudding recipe and where I used some caramel inside the puds. Now usually to make caramel I go through the whole process of boiling sugar to the correct temperature but I wanted to show you a much easier way. Yes it takes longer in one respect but it's a lot less faffing about and you are left...

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