I'm off to London this week.
I'm launching my new designs at Top Drawer in London Olympia on Sunday.
Visit my stand: P19 in the Greetings & Stationary section
on 13-15 September 2015, 9.30am - 6pm

At Top Drawer you will find the hundreds of products that will make your store stand out from the rest.
The show brings together an inspirational showcase of thousands
of carefully selected British and international suppliers and designer-makers,
Top Drawer is London’s largest design-led gift trade event.

Register for free now at...
http://www.topdrawer.co.uk
or by calling 0207 384 7742

Hope to see you there!

These tarts are really delicious. The recipe is from a really lovely cook book called The Vintage Tea Party Year. You could easily make these in advancec and put it all together when your ready to serve them.

This week on The Great British Bake Off is alternative ingredients week, I've made sugar free blueberry muffins. They taste no-way near as good as real muffins so an epic fail really. Oh dear first disaster of the series!


You'll need...
Muffin cases
250g Self-raising flour
1 level teaspoon baking powder
50g butter
5 tbps Splenda
175g blueberries
1 lemon, grated rind
2 large eggs
250ml milk

To make...
Pre-heat the oven to 200oC
Place the cases in two 6 hole muffin molds.
Put the flour and baking powder into a mixing bowl and rub the butter in with your fingers until the mixture looks like fine breadcrumbs.
Stir in the splenda, lemon rind and blueberries.
Mix together seperately the milk & eggs, then add it to mixture quickly, don't over mix it should be lumpy.
Spoon in the mixture into the paper cases filing nearly to the top.
Bake for 25 mins, until they have risen and are golden.

You'll Need...

Week three of The Great British Bake Off is Bread Week.
There is nothing better than the taste of homemade bread. I've never made bagels before so I thought I'd try them myself and do a miniature version. This would be great for little get togethers if you're doing a homemade spread. Honestly they were really easy to make, just a lot of waiting around for the dough to rise. So I recommend to do them over an evening when you're free to tend to them.
They turned out really well and look very sweet once filled with lots of yummy toppings.
I've put together a Roast Beef, Stilton & Grape.
A cream cheese, Smoked salmon, Fresh Dill.
And a Ham, Brie & Apple.


You'll need...

Week two of The Great British Bake Off is Biscuit Week.
I love biscuits! I thought I'd attempt a Florentine as they are more of a special occassion biscuit and worth the extra effort of making yourself.
They were really easy to bake, the chocolate coating at the end can get a little messy though!

You'll need...
45g butter
125ml single cream
125g caster sugar
100g walnut pieces
Zest of 1 Orange
50g plain flour

To make...
Preheat the oven to 160oC
Put the butter, sugar & cream into a saucepan and bring to the boil.
Remove immediately and stir in the nuts, zest & flour
Leave to cool

Scoop a headed teaspoon of the mixture onto lining baking trays, leave about 3cm between each one.
Bake for 20mins, until golden at the edges.
Using a bain-marie melt the chocolate and spread on to the back of each biscuit.