Silks'n'Sweets

08/09/2024

“Practico-procrastibaking”…a new term I have just invented…I had bananas to use up so they won’t go bad, but I also need to do something I am trying to defer as long as possible… 😝😝

*Cinnamon banana bread muffins
*Healthy breakfast muffins

22/07/2024

Okay so this isn’t strictly a ‘bake’ but it is a sweet. 😉😉

The most divine Blackberry Bombe…blackberries picked by yours truly, cooked into a puree. Home made meringues. The cream - ok I don’t have a cow to milk so had to buy 😉 (and yes egg whites bought). 😝

Mix it up and put in freezer for a most delectable summer dessert.

19/12/2023

My first pull-apart cupcake cake. 😊 Just because I felt like it.

Lemon cupcakes, carrot cake cupcakes - all with a scrummy lemon creamcheese buttercream. 😇

03/11/2021

So I baked the cake my other half requested for his birthday, but I didn't feel like making "just" a normal Chocolate Guinness cake... This was the result of trying to decorate with cream cheese icing and only an hour's lunch break for decorating.

16/10/2021

Loved doing some 'creating' (no bake ... so wasn't technically baking, lol) using my essential oils.

20/07/2021

Had some time off so did some 'pleasure baking' ... just because, to think of a friend getting married abroad when I couldn't be there, to mark my fiancé and my 5 year anniversary, and finally to celebrate a friend's birthday.

Ha, as if I needed a reason or excuse to bake! 🤣

17/06/2021

Ah what a cake, what a fab memory, and a fab lady who it was for!

Natalie Vandersluis 40th, June 2017

02/11/2020

This year's birthday "cake" for C. ☺️ Profiteroles with Amarula creme patissiere. Last time I'd made choux pastry was in hotel school kitchen training 27 (cough/choke) years ago so was pretty chuffed with how they turned out.

24/10/2020

Started my second batch of homemade vanilla extract last weekend. Vanilla is my *go-to* base flavoring in most things I bake and also in most jams I've been making this year.

Made some last year and OMG the flavor idea is out of this world! It may have something to do with the fab vanilla from my childhood home Papua New Guinea. (A superb company that supports the local vanilla growers in PNG, Native Vanilla brings organically farmed, sustainably sourced top-quality vanilla to your home.)

Once I finish using up the store bought vanilla extract I have (it's taking some time because I rarely use it anymore) I'll only ever use my own-made. It truly is that much better tasting. And I know exactly what's gone into it - amazing vanilla beans and vodka. That's it - no additives, no sugar, nothing else.

12/08/2020

So what with lockdown, me shielding, and still not going into shops much myself, I've been doing more crafting than baking these past months, and certainly none made to order. But here's a few things I have made recently for own delectation...savory and sweet.

26/05/2020

Spot the real roses versus the ones out of sugar! 😉