DIY Couture

I had a very exciting custom order recently for the launch of the new book by Rosie Martin of DIY Couture.  Rosie asked me to create a box of biscuits based on her 10 designs in the book to be used as a prize at the book launch night.

Strawberries

Although it is tipping down in most parts of the county it is June and very much strawberry season!

Bourbon time

Bourbons- my favorite shop bought biccie!  I had a home made one a couple of years ago and it was so good, I kept meaning to try making my own but iced biscuits always seem to take priority.  I had some chocolate butter icing left from a birthday cake I made so decided it was at last bourbon time.  I used a rectangle cutter and used my usual chocolate biscuit recipe and piped the butter icing onto one side and sandwiched together. yum.

Easter Biscuits

Here are some chocolate egg biscuits for Easter...

And some spring tulips....

Happy Mothers Day!

For my lovely Mum and Mother in Law....Lemon Primroses and Daisies. 

I love spring!  New season, the sun comes out, the days a longer and most exciting of all spring flowers!  I am feeling particularly inspired by flowers at the moment, colours flavours, shapes....I shall keep you posted!

Baby Biscuits

Biscuits for a Baby Shower, available in pink or blue or more neutral yellow.

Hearts and Roses

One of my aims for 2012 is to design a little Valentines Biscuit Collection.  I am not a huge fan of the day, mainly as it is so commercial but I think these little biscuits are quite fitting.   Here are my first additions, Heart and Rose tea cup biscuits.  Delicately flavoured with rose water, the colours are natural and each is finished with a sugared rose petal.  Available to order now!

Christmas Biscuits

Well now that they have been handed over as Christmas gifts I can post the pictures on here!  I got a great response to my robins and Christmas pudding tea cup biscuits, so I am now coming up with new designs for the coming year.

All packed up and ready to go!  I took some along to a market with the wonderful Kath's Cakes and received some lovely feedback and sold a few packets!

Granddads famous biscuits

My granddad was quite unusual for his generation and loved cooking and baking.  He was an excellent baker (although not quite as good as Grandma, but more on that at a later date!) Arriving at their house was always exciting as you would be greeted with a pot of tea (always tea leaves) and a ginger biscuit.  Now apparently the original recipe name was "Caravan Cookies" but in our family they are now just "Granddads Biscuits"  I made them for my cousin the other day and he declared they were almost as good as Granddads which is good enough for me!

They are really easy to make and suitable for people who don't eat egg.

100g Butter/Margarine
100g Sugar
1tsp Bicarbonate of soda blended with a dessert spoon of hot water
2 tbs warmed golden syrup
100g Self Raising Flour
100g Rolled Oats
1/2 tsp ground ginger

Method
Pre-heat the oven to 180oc
Cream the butter and sugar
Add bicarbonate and water mix
Add warmed syrup
Add flour, oats and ground ginger
Form into balls about the size of a marble, on a baking sheet (they spread so leave enough space)
Bake for aprox. 15mins until golden

Flamingo!

Here are the flamingo biscuits!

Wedding Favours - Little Animals

Here are some of the pictures from a recent wedding commission.  The couple are animal lovers and we chose their 3 favourites, Elephants, Turtles and Giraffes....

Gingerbread men

We recently received a corporate order for 250 gingerbread men with iced t-shirts.  250! Would the Little Bench cope with such numbers? But cope it did and apparently they "went down an absolute storm".

Here they are