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It’s a rare gem this cafe, really tasty light snacks at this really tiny cafe in a corner of a city farm. Sylvia had a bowl of pasta and I had gnocchi with pumpkin sauce, wild mushrooms and goats cheese. They serve a really nice cup of coffee and homemade cakes. Perfect with kiddies.

So, bolstered by my success with the farmyard cupcakes here I apply the MasterChef treatment and pimp them up a bit with butter-icing, jellies, sweeties and shavings of Willie’s 100% Venezuelan Black (cacao not hash although … there’s an idea).
Let me tell you, these were the first to sell-out at the bonfire night cake [...]

Here are pink piggy and chicky cupcakes I made for Sylvia’s nursery fireworks cake sale tomorrow. Yes I’m showing them off because they took hours and I am proud of them! Handily I managed to use up some of the icing from S’s birthday cake. And marshmallows that have been lurking in cupboard for … [...]

Sylvia is quite possibly the only combined doctor/ballerina in the country. Her specialism is ‘getting babies out’ involving some rather rudimentary surgery using a wooden spatula and pair of tweezers.