I enjoy baking cakes, cookies, and other goodies for friends and work colleagues. This has developed into a nice little business, especially around the holidays. Nowadays, I usually have three or four orders a month, which suits me fine. My recipes originate from various sources, including New York's Magnolia Bakery, England's Delia Smith and Nigella Lawson, and even my grandmother's recipe file. I always say, "If you can read, you can cook," but buying good quality ingredients and enjoying the process helps too.

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A "Jack Wills" cake for a shopping enthusiast.
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My most recent cake: chocolate buttermilk cake with marzipan roses
Tiffany's cake
Tiffany's gift box

Gordon cake
A lemony birthday cake.
Rose cupcake
A cupcake version of the cake above
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Lemon sponge cake, soaked in limoncello syrup, topped with white chocolate and limoncello truffles and marzipan roses
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A tropical lemon cake
Airen cake
A tower of pink
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The same boy's cake, a year later
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A delicious, triple layer chocolate buttermilk cake with a ten pin bowling theme.
80s cake
An 80s-themed chocolate cake with Madonna, Adam Ant, and Boy George rendered in sugar
Muppets Beaker
Beaker, from The Muppets, made for a chemist
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A little girl's chocolate disco cake
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Rainbow themed cake
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Heat shaped cookies to go with the rainbow cake
Wicked cake
A mini-cake for a (female) Wicked fan.
It features Elphaba and ruby slippers gingerbread cookies.
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A lemon butterfly cake
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A recent birthday cake.

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A deliciously moist carrot cake with cream cheese icing served as a 75th birthday treat
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Chocolate mud cake topped with homemade truffles
Lemon cake
Lemon sponge soaked in limoncello and layered with lemon curd
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This is one of my favourite cakes. The original Pooh Bear.
Manchester United cake
For a football fan
Rose cake
My first time to make marzipan roses. The cake is a fruitcake that has been maturing for weeks.
Birthday cake
This was my own German chocolate birthday cake, made like my grandmother used to make it.
Steve cakeA butterfly themed cake
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Just to prove they're not all girly looking
Daisy cake.jpg A lemon cake with sugar paste daisies
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Chocolate truffles cake with crystalized rose petals
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Bart in delicious chocolate buttercream
40th
A rich fruitcake for a rather dishy 40 year old
Badminton cake
For a badminton enthusiast
Bear Cake
I made this cake for a young girl who likes dance
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Another fruitcake with marzipan roses, this time with royal icing

A lemon cake
A big version of my popular lemon cake
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A mermaid cake, decorated with sea creature cookies.
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The cookies

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Heart cookies small
These are for a 30th anniversary party
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The cake for the party
Black and white cake
My latest cake - a black and white wedding cake.
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Flower detail from the cake
Nicholls cake
NEW! A huge and heavy concoction.
Wedding Cake 1
My most ambitious cake to date
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Our own wedding cake. Click HERE to see our celebrations in Paris!
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A cupcake wedding

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Simnel cake
A simnel cake, heavy on the marzipan


Easter Egg
I made this Easter egg using Green & Black's organic chocolate. It's filled with small homemade peanut butter and chocolate Easter eggs.
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2007's Easter egg
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A mini simnel cake just for us
Easter cookies Painstakingly made Easter cookies flavoured with real vanilla seeds, lemon or orange peel, or chocolate.

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I based these lemon flavoured teddy bear cookies on the brightly coloured Gap briefs I bought Nick as an Easter gift. The underwear is unworn in this photo... A bear from behind
Teddy briefs
A bear in his underwear

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Bear behind

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A lemon cake with Greek god theme for a "hen weekend".
Valentine's cookies
2007 Valentine's Day cookies
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Cookies for a christening

Full Monty.jpg A hen night cake inspired by The Full Monty.

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Some festive cupcakes
Fashion 1
Underwear cookies
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Catwalk cookies
Cupcakes
My own version of Magnolia Bakery's famous cupcakes
Anniversary cake
Our bronze anniversary cake
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This blackberry pie was made on holiday in France. We picked the berries ourselves by the roadside.
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This gift package is actually full of chocolate chip cookies.

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...and inside this package are peanut butter cookies.
Donuts
Homemade donuts, including the raspberry jam filling

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Sadly, this is not me.
Halloween cookies
I made dozens of jolly Halloween cookies to sell.
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Bears
I make gingerbread bears for the folks I work with.
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A yule log
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2006's mini Christmas cakes
Kate cake
One of many Christmas fruit cakes ordered each year
Mince pies
Mince pies
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I made the marzipan fruit on top of this Christmas cake.
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Almond shortbread cookies
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Camp as Christmas
Cake 2
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A Porcini basket
We collected these porcini mushrooms near where we live. See photos of our hunt HERE.
Figs
A gorgonzola and fig salad in the garden
Cottage Eyzies bounty.jpg Some of the ingredients bought in the French market one summer

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Homemade mini pizzas


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