Yesterday, I made a vegan, gluten free chocolate cake for the birthday of one of our wonderful directors of Community Roots. Sadly I couldn’t be there this morning but I’m told it went down well. 
Category Archives: baking
Birthday Cake
Pie and Singing
Today I have made a family recipe, Picnic Pie, for my friend and I to eat just before singing in St Mawes for their carnival. I’ll add pictures of that event later if Im not too exhausted. We are to sing from 7-9pm!
Picnic Pie – Mum’s recipe
More Moon, Cake and Stair Carpet
Last night the full Buck moon was still glorious and I do like taking a photo through leaves and branches.
I made another sunshine cake today. It was my usual coffee cake for the monthly Saturday market in Redruth and baked on solar energy.
The sun coming through the etched glass on the front door threw the pattern onto the stair carpet at the top of the stairs.
Agapanthus, Cake and Herbal Tea
We’ve been driving past a beautiful bank of Agapanthus for a week or two and today I managed to get a photo from the moving car.
The cake for volunteers at Roots today was a Lemon and Blueberry with a crusty sugar topping. It was delicious and much appreciated.
The herbal tea made for volunteers from herbs and edible flowers was particularly pretty today. 
Happiness Calendar, Tomatoes and Cake
I’m a bit late with this month’s Happiness calendar which is focussing on resilience and jumping back up after a set back. Hope some of the suggestions work for you should you be needing them.
It’s our first season in the greenhouse and we have some small tomatoes some of which are beginning to ripen.
I made a coffee cake for tomorrow’s market in town and made a mini one for us.
Greenfly, Lilies and Rhubarb
It wasn’t until I looked at the photo of our first Sweet pea flower that I saw the greenflies! The Sweet peas have been very slow this year. I’m hoping they’ll pick up if the weather improves.
The lilies are scenting the whole of the garden.
Our rhubarb is doing well since we brought some of it home from the allotment. Tonight I have made the very delicious Different-every-time- pudding, otherwise known as Rhubarb Butterscotch Pie and the recipe by Ambrose Heath can be found here.
Sky, Labels and Cake
I love seeing the blue sky through bright green leaves.
I bought some lovely copper labels for the trough near the kitchen where I grow edibles, flowers as well as herbs.
There’s a birthday tomorrow at Community Roots so I have made a Sticky Ginger Cake which I know is the birthday person’s favourite.
Cake, Shanty Festival and Sea
I’ve baked a cake for tomorrow in Redruth. It’s Murdoch Day and Redruth Pride.
It’s the Falmouth Shanty festival this weekend and late afternoon saw The Suitcase Singers on stage. It was really good fun to be part of the event.
The Suitcase Singers on stage
The basses and the tenors
Looking out over Falmouth Bay
Blossom, Reading and Pie
Blossom seen near the recycling center where we took some stuff today. I don’t know what it is…….
Indeed we do. 🙂
Sorry about the uncooked pie! I forgot to take a photo when it came out of the oven all golden as we were too eager to eat it!
Solar Energy, Cake and New Sculpture
It’s Redruth Market tomorrow and I’ve baked a cake as usual but today, we used no power from the grid but just power from the sun!
Sue-next-door, her brother Pete and their friend Hal, have just installed Twigmaid (a smaller, travelling Mudmaid) into the courtyard behind St Martins-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, for the Lost Oasis. This Heligan-in-the-City is a beautiful green retreat in the heart of London with a bar, guest chefs, music and events. If you, Dear Reader, if you are anywhere near, do go and visit. Ute, maybe?
Isn’t she beautiful? Made by Sue Hill and Pete Hill
Here is the original Mud Maid to be found in The Lost Gardens of Heligan here in Cornwall.
