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Happy Birthday to Me – Pikelet and Pie turns 1!

A year ago today I made this area for random ramblings a dedicated food blog. It was the Easter long weekend and I was relaxed. I had just started a graduate job and was reveling in the idea of having a whole long weekend off, I kept having to remind myself that I had graduated from uni [...]

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Happy Birthday Mum, I made me some cake for you

This cake is divine. Bitter and sweet, crunchy and moist, fragrant, wholesome and delicious. I’ve known about Orange and Almond Cake for as long as I can know, see, it’s my mum’s favourite, and I baked it today for her birthday (Happy Birthday Mum!). But really I made it for me, see my Mum lives [...]

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Happy Birthday Felix, have some Idiot Cake

When will I learn? I think I have spoken about this before, my oven is not a good cake oven, I should not make cakes. In fact I have a series of failed cake stories percolating just below the surface. Unfortunately Birthday biscuits or Birthday Custard just really doesn’t have the same ring to them [...]

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