

Swiss Meringue Buttercream
I love this stuff. I'm glad I persevered with it after my first few attempts. It's a frosting I wasn't overly familiar with but thought it sounded divine. Now I rarely use anything else. There are a few different forms but they ultimately produce the same thing. There is Italian meringue buttercream, which is where you make a sugar syrup and slowly pour it into your whisking egg whites before adding cubed butter (cue sugar syrup sticking to baloon whisk, forming sugar lumps i


Gluten free Valentine's cake
In our house, we have adopted a largely wheat free diet. This has been particularly beneficial to my boyfriend and while he often benefits from the odd bit of cake trimming, which is not always gluten free, I thought I’d make him his very own wheat free Valentine’s cake. I went on a gluten free baking course last year to aid in my quest to produce some gluten free treats where people really can’t tell the difference (as much as they might like to try). NB Gluten is the allerg