Just a quick update…We’ve been working hard recently to change this website for the better. Hopefully it is now much easier to navigate and find recipes and other foodie information. The whole website should now be…

Last week, the lovely people at Faith PR, Brighouse were kind enough to invite me to a Cookery Masterclass at a brand new Caribbean restaurant in Huddersfield: Turtle Bay. NB: I say ‘brand new’, but this is…

Did you know that this week is ‘Chocolate Week’? A celebration running from 12-18th October 2015, culminating in the Chocolate Show in London’s Olympia? Sounds good doesn’t it? Heck Yes! A whole conference centre dedicated…

Vanilla sugar is simply sugar which has been infused with the delicious flavour and scent of natural vanilla. I started making my own vanilla sugar when I was baking cakes and sweet pastries on a…

Oh, how I love rhubarb… firm, strong, long stalks of fresh pinky-green tartness just waiting to be paired with any number of flavours in desserts such as crumbles, tarts, pies, cakes, biscuits or even made…

The wonderful people at California Prunes have very kindly offered Bakes, Cakes & Eats followers 5 pairs of tickets to this weekend’s Cake & Bake Show at London’s Earl’s Court. Winning a pair of tickets…

I was asked to make this cake for my friend’s brother’s 40th Birthday. As with all the novelty cakes I make, I thoroughly enjoyed making it, but wish I could command an army of minions…

Helping our friends’ children celebrate their birthdays is always fun, but this weekend I was asked to create not just one, but two cakes to mark the occasions. Hooray for cake! Firstly, I was asked…

I spent a very happy few hours on Friday at the UK’s biggest experiential baking show – Cake & Bake Show, Manchester. Last year, the British Media Awards rightly named the Cake and Bake Show the ‘Event…