Afternoon Tea

Baps, Bloomers and Barm Cakes – Celebrating British Bread Week with Rustic Flower Pot Bread Loaves

A Clandestine Cake Club Cake Recipe for Easter Monday – Chocolate Orange Daisy Cake

Tea Time Treats for the Easter Tea Table – Little Easter Egg & Daisy Cakes with Chocolate Cheese Cake Frosting

Sweet Easter Treats for Easter Week…..Cake, Hot Cross Buns, Eggs & Floral Baking Gifts

The Perfect Pot and Cup of English Tea with Trumpers Tea & Betty Twyford

Retro Kitchens and Vintage Kitchenalia – A Little Girl’s Dream Comes True + Top Tips in the Kitchen

Bacon Connoisseurs’ Week ~ Old-Fashioned Egg & Bacon Sandwich Spread

Mothering Sunday and Tea in the Parlour with Little Chocolate & Violet Fancies

A Kaleidoscope of Fancies – Fancy Little Cakes & My Mum’s Cake Shop! Guest Post

Chocolate Ale Fruit Cake – Baking Mad and Eric Lanlard

Victorian Spring Posy Cake for Easter or Mother’s Day using Crystallised Violets

Scones – Wensleydale Cheese, Leek & Walnut Scones for Tea Time Treats

Who ate all the Pies? British Pie Week & my Farmhouse Egg and Bacon Pie

Maple Syrup Walnut Layer Cake with Fudge Frosting – The Pink Whisk Recipe Challenge & Save the Children

A Surfeit of Lemons and a Traditional Preserve – Home-made Lemon and Ginger Marmalade

Welcome! I'm Karen; it’s lovely to see you here. I was born in South Africa, but I've lived all over the world, latterly calling North Yorkshire my home where I lived for many years before moving to SW France, although I'm now living in the Lincolnshire Wolds, a designated area of outstanding natural beauty, in an old Victorian cottage. I am a freelance food and travel writer, as well as a food stylist, and recipe developer, with a passion for art, travel, books, photography, seasonal food and especially cheese and wine. Please do get in contact with me if you have any questions about my work or commissioning me. Read More…