Tag: birthday cake

• Carrot Bundt Cake With Cream Cheese Frosting

  

  I absolutely adore carrot cake and have been wanting to bake one for a ages. It’s been a while since I’ve been asked to make one so I thought why don’t I bake one because I want to? Baking one in a Bundt pan is even better and such a treat. On Sunday afternoon I […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  February 7, 2023

  Bundts, Classic and Traditional Cakes, Large and Celebration Cakes

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• November 2022 Baking Round Up.

  November has been a month of two halves . I baked at the beginning and the end but the middle two weeks I couldn’t bake at all and had to limit my time in the kitchen. To someone who loves cooking and baking, this was hard. We were having a new kitchen floor laid and […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  December 1, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Cakes and Muffins, Chocolate Treats, Classic and Traditional Cakes, Cupcakes, Cupcakes, Muffins, Buns and Scones, Food and Drink, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

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• June Baking Update #100bakeschallenge

  

  It’s the beginning of July and I’ve been so behind with my SmartCookieSam blog. It seems I only have time to update it in the school holidays at the moment and that really upsets me as I love doing it. I’ve had a busy time recently and as normal, the blogging gets pushed to the […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  June 29, 2022

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• Baking Update!

  

  Hi everyone! I feel as if it’s a lifetime since I last updated my blog. My last post was just around Easter, I think. As soon as we got into the second week of the Easter holidays, I began to feel unwell. I have been using HRT for nearly two years and due to the […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  June 6, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge

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• National Chocolate Caramel Day: Caramel Chocolate Rocky Road

  

  I absolutely adore Rocky Road and made a batch of it the other day thinking ahead to celebrating National Chocolate Caramel Day on Saturday 19th March (see my National Mostly Foodie Days Of 2022 calendar by My Legoman! It was also another challenge to scratch off my Crumbs By Collette #100BakesCalendar As I make a […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  March 20, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Chocolate Treats, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

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• #100bakeschallenge: Fondant Iced Birthday Cake

  

  What a busy few days it’s been both in the SmartCookieSam kitchen. As I type, it is Sunday March 20th and it has been a glorious, sunny Spring weekend up here in North Yorkshire. We have been very lucky with the weather over the past couple of days. But as I am so busy, I’ve […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  March 20, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Seasonal and Celebration Cakes

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• Devil’s Food Cake -National Chocolate Cake Day

  

  I had no idea it was National Chocolate Cake Day on the same day as Mr S’ birthday! It was a huge coincidence that I was baking him a chocolate flavoured birthday cake this year for him instead of the Lockdown brownies he got last year. I love baking chocolate cakes (and eating them, too […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  January 31, 2022

  Amazing Cakes, Chocolate Treats, Seasonal and Celebration Cakes

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• Jane’s Patisserie- Book Review.

  

  Over the past couple of years I’ve discovered Jane’s Patisserie website with her delicious, foolproof recipes. Her cheesecake recipes are my absolute go-to, especially as cheesecakes always used to be a disaster when I made them before. Not any more. No more need for gelatine or for baking cheesecakes. I don’t need that with Jane’s […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  October 31, 2021

  Reviews

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• Amazing Cakes #33: The Ultimate Chocolate Cake

  

  Sunday October 24th 2021: It was my Mum’s birthday and as she was coming up to visit for a couple of days, I thought I would bake her a birthday cake. It had to be one which would keep and she could have enough to take home and share with her friends she was meeting […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  October 30, 2021

  Amazing Cakes, Chocolate Treats, Classic and Traditional Cakes, The Great British Bake Off, Uncategorized

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• Finch Bakery- Book Review

  

  Back in the summer holidays (seems so long ago now!) I was shopping in my local Waterstones. I love going into bookshops and could spend hours looking through all the shelves. Especially at the cookery ones. I’ve not seen so many new baking books I’ve wanted to buy recently but the Finch Bakery one caught […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  October 28, 2021

  Reviews

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