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Rustic Cocoa Cookies
I decided to create a new cookie recipe for a recent food photography lighting demo. It needed to be rustic and preferably more than one colour. This was the delicious result! The white chocolate is optional, but looks good and...
Special days
Meerkat Experience at Tilgate Park
My daughter recently booked a meet the Meerkats session. It was a gift voucher from me so of course I had to go along too! The venue was at Tilgate Park Nature Centre, a wonderful place for a day out. Freya was escorted in by I...
Biscuits
Lemon Drizzle Shortbread Slices
Thought I’d create something with 2 of my favourite things, shortbread and lemon. These are delicious. I prefer my shortbread really golden so tend to bake for a little longer. Lemon Drizzle Shortbrea...
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Nutella Iced Buns
I make iced buns occasionally as a weekend treat, they literally get inhaled here!! So I thought I’d try a Nutella or chocolate spread topping. We all agreed the first bite was “a little different but OK” afte...
Biscuits
Hint of Christmas Cookies
These scrummy cookies are nice and easy to make, I hardly had chance to take any photo’s of these before they disappeared! You can vary the end result by leaving some as a ball of dough as some people like a softer cookie...
Cakes
Food Photography Lighting Ideas
Although I love using natural light for a lot of my food photography, sometimes it’s just not an option. The UK has many days when the sun does not appear and when it does it’s not for long enough! So I have ...
Food Photography
Mini Break to Lacock, Wiltshire.
My other half, Gavin, and I recently had a cheeky mid week break away to Lacock in Wiltshire. It’s somewhere I had heard about for a while and at last managed to get a couple of nights booked for late September. The village is ...
Food Photography
Pouring Spoons Food Photography Video
I had great fun creating these images and putting it in to a video for Essential Photo using some of their brilliant Pixapro Glowpad lights. Excellent slim LED light panels that are battery operated which makes them super porta...
Pudding
Easy Banoffee Pavlova
An easy pudding to satisfy that sweet tooth! I usually have a can or jar of caramel in the cupboard as well as double cream in the fridge and having chickens means eggs are always on hand too. Perfect, add bananas and we’...
Biscuits
Chocolate Sandwich Biscuits with Vanilla Mallow Filling
Perfect with a cuppa and friends or an afternoon treat to keep you focused, these are lovely! The mallow filling is so lush and squidgy (you will get messy), also amazing on and in big cakes and sublime on cupcakes. Best eaten ...
