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Cinnamon Bun Monkey Bread
Hey Friends! Yes it is me, dropping into your inboxes ON schedule, must be shocking at this point, I know. Truth be told, I have been feeling utterly terrible at how inconsistent I have been over here so here is to attempt 1788549 at showing up regularly, as promised. I honestly thought I would be one of those women who would plough through pregnancy without it affecting me in any way.
Apple Crumble & Custard Birthday Cake
Hey Friends! I hope you are well and having a lovely start to your week?
Around the World in 80 Cakes
About The Book About The Author Reviews Great British Baking Show finalist Ruby Bhogal is back by popular demand to delight us with 80 delicious cake recipes from across the globe Based on her popular online series, in Around the World in 80 Cakes, Ruby Bhogal shares the history of each bake, where it originated, its flavor profiles and what to serve it with.
It’s an Almond Croissant x Triple Chocolate Babka kinda newsy
Oh I know. I have been shocking. Nay, I have been woeful. NOPE. I have been utterly sh*t at keeping on top of the newsy for a while and honestly, I have zero excuses. None. Nada. And you know what, I’m not even going to try. What I would love to know is though is how everyone is doing it. Ya know, juggling life, commitments, work, family, relationships, whilst all still having their sh*t together, never running late and still having energy to dedicate to having some form of fun. What’s the secret?
Cherry & Almond Pie
Hello friends! I KNOW it has been a long old time since I dropped into your inboxes with a delicious, carb laden newsy – my sincerest apologies for going awol but ya girl was off working a dream job for all of August (news which I will hopefully be able to share with you vvvv soon) which has meant I have spent approximately 2 hours in the kitchen in the past few weeks (those hours went into making today’s cherry pie). Have I missed being in the kitchen? Yup. Completely.
Raspberry, Almond & Coconut Vertical Cake
Hey Friends! I hope you are all having a lovely week so far? Thank the good, sweet heavens that the weather has decided to chill out ever so marginally this week. I’ve managed to turn my oven on a whole 2 times this week which is a vast improvement from last week’s big fat zero. I could yap on with the normal nonsense I always start the newsy with and completely evade the elephant in the room, but shall we address it? Shall we just deep dive into it?
Banana Pudding Tiramisu
Hey Friends! It’s heatwave week again in the UK but I am going to spare you my incessant whining over it and instead ramble over something equally as boring – yes folks, I am now in my DIY era. Who would have guessed it? Absolutely not me but then absolutely also me.
Chocolate Cardamom Buns
Hey Friends! I hope you have all had a lovely week so far? The sun has shined, the rain has rained, the weather is more up down than my mood swings, but it’s finally been a good week in the kitchen for me – which if I’m being honest, has felt like a long time coming. Things have been slightly intense and full on my side of late, which has seen me rarely venture into the kitchen to do any baking, so it has felt so nice to be back in the swing of things, cooking up a carb laden storm.
Strawberry, Cardamom & Custard Tart
is the main bake of the day but we’ve also got my Cardamom (yup, a double feature), Lemon & Rose Loaf, Triple Choc Babka plus my Pistachio & White Choc No Churn Ice Cream completing the menu. Hey Friends! Okay let’s not beat around the bush shall we?
Strawberry & Almond Custard Maritozzi
Hey Friends! I hope you are well and have had a lovely week so far? I am going to do my best to not rub any salt in any wounds and completely downplay the fact that I am reporting live and direct from a beach in the South of France. Which reading that back, sounds very la di da and like I am living the life of riley and in truth, I absolutely am.
Spiced Carrot Cake with a Whipped Burnt Honey Cream
Hey Friends! I hope you have all been keeping well? I am SO sorry for being so awol but surprise surprise, I have been tucked up in bed with what I can only describe as the worlds worst cold. It just won’t budge. I am on day 21690 of said cold (dramatics intended but in truth it’s been more like day 17) and it’s showing no signs of slowing down. I have never known fatigue quite like it.
Easter Treats, Feats and a tiny bit of Meat
Friends! Hello and happy bloody Freeday am I right?? I hope you have all had a lovely week so far? I have been up to my eyeballs in recipe developing, filming, editing, planning, and looking after a new second dog (more on that later if I get the chance) so have rarely seen outside the four walls of my kitchen this week but my my myyy, the odd bit of sunshine that has graced my kitchen this week has been nothing short of glorious.
A Spring in my Step
Hey Friends! I hope you are all doing well and have had a lovely week? I come here with my tail between my two legs, head slightly dipped and hat in hand to say I am SO sorry for once again missing the newsy last week BUT l fear I have a valid excuse because guess who was back in the Eye Casualty??! Ding ding ding ding ding! Correct, it was I. I and my big fat, swollen, painful, still experiencing light flashes eye.
Basic but Brilliant
Hey Friends! Oh boy do we have an update for you this week. Here I was on Monday, thinking this is gonna be a good week, Rubes. We got a LOT we need to achieve. Lots we need to make moves on. Lots of decisions to make. Lots of bits that need to be filmed. Let’s be bloody ‘aving you. So off I went to Padel on a Monday morning like I normally do. Nothing new about this by the way. This isn’t a new random hobby I have decided to spontaneously immerse myself in.
PLT - Pretty Little Tart
Hey Friends! I hope you have all had a lovely week? It feels good to be slowly dipping my toes back into the world of work but when the hell did January become February?? I feel like Jan lasted 127621 days and yet also flew by? I don’t get understand how that works but can we all agree the rest of the year just needs to chill cause why on God’s green earth have I been finding Easter Eggs in the supermarkets since Jan 2nd?
January Blues Bye Bye
Hey Friends! I hope you have all been having a great start to the New Year? Mine got off to a slightly rocky start so we are finally back with the newsy after a little extended break. Thanks so much for those of you who are still here – I appreciate my one job over here is to regularly deliver you with filth and we have been somewhat slacking on that front so I’m suuuuper soz that I haven’t been keeping up my side of the bargain. Shall we address the elephant in the room?
A Little Christmas Chaos
Hey Friends! Tis the season for fun and a whole lotta yum. As a self-confessed carb fiend, the winter season is truly where I come alive. It’s all bread, comforting, beige good mood food over here and I am not mad at it one single bit. The one thing I am mad at, and this happens every single year, without fail, is that I wait for December to roll around. I count down the days till I can blast the Bublé on repeat. I live for cosy season and now it is upon us, I feel horrendously behind.
Christmas Carb Loading
Hey Friends! I am pleased to report I am back from Mexico in one piece and praise the lord without a drop of e.coli. To say honeymoon 2.0 was a resounding success is an understatement – I consumed so many tacos, that I’m sure if anyone analysed my body composition it would return the results of me being 87% taco, 5 % guac and 100000% habanero sauce. Am I mad at it? Not one single bit. We went to a little island called Holbox to start, which sits north of the Yucatan Peninsula.
It's Pie Time
I hope you are all well – welcome to November. I am not quite sure how we have got here as I am 96.3% certain it was literally just September like the other day. This year has flown by and quite frankly, I am mad at that. All those goals and dreams and aspirations I had at the start of the year have now been officially postponed to 2026. I boldly claimed that this year would be MY year.
Delayed Birthday Fun & Yum
Hey Friends! I hope you are all well? I’m back from a quick trip to Marrakech for my Mums 70th birthday and already up to my eyeballs in all things kitchen chaos, following Diwali earlier in the week and me attempting to one up all my previous birthday cakes which ended in one attempt splitting in half and falling off the cake turntable (this scene felt VERY familiar, might I add).
It's Birthday Month, Baby!
Hey Friends! I hope you are well and have all had a lovely week? We are keeping this week’s rambles short and sweet (and basically non-existent) because we are in for a mammoth edition but less yap means we get to the good stuff more quickly though, right??
A Bread Based Bonanza
Hey Friends! So ya know after getting married, getting a stye, getting e.coli, projectile vomiting off the side of a boat and catching covid all in the space of 2 weeks, I have only gone and ticked off another box off the sicky sue list by spraining my ankle. Yup, some torn ligaments later thanks to an unnecessarily competitive game of padel, I have found myself the past week wallowing in a puddle of self pity and self annoyance. Totally avoidable and yet so totally me?
It's Cosy Season, Baby!
Hi Friends! I hope you are all well? I missed last week’s newsy as I am eyeballs deep in a long-term project right now (the finishing line is SO NEARLY HERE) and whilst my kitchen resembles a pig stye and I cannot for the life of me locate my beloved whisk, spatula or brain in amongst it all, I have been craving nothing but comfort food. Food that makes me feel cosy, calm and overcome with nostalgia.
Doughnuts for Days
Hey Friends! I hope you are all well and have had a lovely week so far? Great news my side – I have made it 2 weeks without coming down with a new virus, cold or sickness bug. Dare I say this b*tch is back?? Whilst I am still fighting the daily 3 pm urge to have a nap, I have been back in the kitchen, back on a photoshoot and back to drowning in cakes and carbs on the daily.
Summer of Yum
Hey Friends! It feels like it has been a little while since I last wrote a newsy to you and for that, I am SINCERELY so sorry. To say the last 5 weeks has been a whirlwind would be an understatement. So, shall we start at the beginning? Picture this… It’s my wedding day. I had spent a large portion of the night before furiously typing away a newsletter I was determined to get out on time (spoiler alert – it got sent late) so woke up a smidge tired but overall excited.
The Wedding Edition - Part 2
Hey Friends! I hope you are all well? We are now 3 days out from the big day and guess bloody what? I am still yet to do the following: Get my nails done. Make the wedding favours (we are doing cookies and not iced cookies, I mean legit gooey in the middle, crisp on the outside sorta cookies). Get my dress steamed. Get my mehndi done. Get my hair done. Get the newsletter done. Get my holiday bits packed (did I mention I am off to Greece for the week post wedding??
Hey Friends! I am SO bloody sorry for missing the newsy two weeks ago – let me tell you, I was in no fit state to be stringing a sentence of words together, let alone write a mammoth newsletter to you all bleating on about the usual nonsense like the local donkeys, how I think I have entered my bird watching era (I am THIS CLOSE to buying binoculars who the hell am I becoming?) and that my new neighbours are cows. Like…literally.
A Choux-In
Hey Friends! I hope you have all had a marvellous week so far? Mine has consisted of an ungodly amount of baking (I am talking an average of 5 different cakes per day), an eyewatering amount of cake failures (please see below for evidence) and an obscene amount of steps done daily (30k every damn day IN THE KITCHEN ALONE). My arteries are drowning in sugar, my body now resembles blancmange and damn, ya girl is tired but folks, we move.
A Sweet Affair
Hey Friends! I hope you are all having a lovely week and are enjoying the start of a long weekend filled with delicious food, good company and most importantly, lots of chocolate. We have a long weekend ahead and I am typing ferociously/furiously/fervently to get this newsletter typed up and over to you before any food based festivities begin. I know a lot of you probably have your menu already planned and sorted but for those of you who like to leave things a little late (aka me.
Choccy Horror Show
Hey Friends! I hope you have all had a lovely week so far? I have been up to my eyeballs in recipe writing so have rarely seen outside the four walls of my kitchen this week but my my myyyyyy – hasn’t the weather been glorious this week? Truly and utterly gorgeous. It’s been nothing but beautiful blue skies, with barely a hint of any sort of cloud. Oooof. Aperol Spritz season is so nearly here baby and I cannot wait.
Nice Buns
Hey Friends! I hope you are all having a lovely week so far? Apologies for dropping into your inboxes a little later than expected but ya girl just became an Aunt to the most beautiful, full head of hair, squishy, joyous, happy and healthy 3kg little baby so whilst I had planned to be in the kitchen for most of the week, instead I am writing this week’s newsy from the glamourous, ubiquitously named (union coffee shop?? Why is it always a union? Who is in said union?
Forced Rhubarb, Roasted Strawberry, Coconut & Tonka Bean Tart
Hey Friends! I hope you are all well this week? The sun decided to creep out of retirement, and I honestly couldn’t be more thrilled. As someone who quite enjoys the dark cosy nights in, I in equal measures love it when the sun is shining but there is still a slight chill in the air.
When Life Gives You Lemons, Make Cake Part 2
Hey Friends! I hope you are all having a lovely week so far? It seems like a minute ago, I was complaining that it felt like we were on day 5467 of January and yet here we are, edging closer to the end of February and I immediately regret not making the most of those slower moving, snail paced days. God damn you Rubes for having no chill and wishing away time because please tell me why I went into the supermarket last week and was bombarded with all things Easter.
All Things Nice & Cinnamon Spice
Hello Friends! I hope you are all well this week? I am going to aim to keep this intro short and sweet because boy, oh boy, we have a big old bumper selection, collection and concoction of carby deliciousness that will see you through the weekend. Whether you are after something low key and chill, I have got you. If you want something that takes a bit of time, I have got you. And if you are after something that hits that sweet middle spot. You got it. I HAVE GOT YOU.
Keeping It Saucy
Friends! Hello there – welcome back to another edition of the newsy. My apologies for being late (shock, tell me something new at this point am I right) but I am just catching up on life after returning from a work trip in Turkey, moving FOR THE FINAL TIME (she’s officially an adult folks *gulp*) with zero internet connection AND the inevitable which I have been in serious in denial about…my laptop breaking and dying a predictable, overdue but abrupt death.
Cherry On Top
Look, I get it. You’re probs sick of seeing the newsletter start with this reminder but I went in to see my Publishers the other day for a little catch up over cake (the BFG featuring in this week’s Good Stuff) and saw the wonderful marketing lady working on my book who told me to blame her for having to remind you again because… WE ARE OFFICIALLY 20 DAYS UNTIL PUBLICATION DAY IN THE UK. Which makes me feel all sorts of weird, anxiety, nervousness, excitement, and mild nausea to round it all off.
New Year, New Yum
Hey Friends! Is it too late to say Happy New Year? Have I missed the boat? Well screw it, cause I make the rules around here – HAPPY NEW YEARRRRR! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas break and are all suitably stuffed like a turkey after all the feasting, nibbling and grazing. I’ll level with you, if I see another roast potato within my vicinity I am going to KICK OFF. I don’t want it. I don’t wanna see it. I don’t even want to breathe the same air as it.
Guess who’s back baby…
FRIENDS! Hello!! It feels like it has been absolutely forever since I’ve been active on the old newsy and I am soooo sorry for going AWOL once again, but I promise you (and I know I've said on a number of occasions recently) but I promise promise PROMISE you, that I am back and here to stay. Truth be told, I have had far too much on my plate of late and a classic Rubes move when things get too overwhelming is I go for a little one-way trip to De Nile. Is it a good quality to have?
Cake You Gotta Make - Part 2
Gooooood Morning Friends! I hope you are well this week? I am just FINALLY coming through a bout of what I believe was Covid – I tested negative on Monday but this 2 weeker had *all* the covid hallmarks: never ending fatigue, a headache which felt like I could feel my brain pressing against my skull, a sky high fever and a cough which was determined to see me cough up a lung.
I’m a little late but…
Hey Friends! I know it has been a real minute since I haven’t shoved an ad plugging my book at the start of the newsletter, but I thought I would give you all a break from it for now (although it is out in the UK TWO WEEKS TODAY!!).
Not Mindful, Not Cutesy, Not Demure.
Hey Friends! I’m back with another delicious edition of the newsy – a little later into the evening than originally planned but that is possibly down to the fact I am currently juggling life, work and relationships alongside moving AGAIN. I never do choose that simple life, do I? It feels slightly mad (and a bit déjà vu-ey) to be talking to you about that as I remember detailing my every stress about it, pretty much this exact same time last year.
Summer? More like YUMMER.
Hey Friends! I don’t want to alarm anyone, but I seem to have lost my baking mojo over the last few weeks. I don’t know why. I don’t know where it has gone. But the urge to wake up early in the morning to spend the whole day baking in the kitchen seems to have disappeared quicker than me necking a tequila shot in my early twenties (which let me tell you, party rubes would have that gone before you could blink, think or move an inch). Is it summer?
Living The Sweet Life
Hi Friends! I hope you are all having a lovely week so far? I have just returned back from a quick trip away to the UAE for a quick (and probably last of the year) book tour pit stop and boy, oh BOY am I glad to be back home. I know I say this every single newsy, but life has been well and truly life-ing of late with the constant house moves, and two semi back to back work trips away – I feel a little…out of sorts? A little ungrounded?
Oh, Crumbs 2.0
Hey Friends! I hope you are all well this week?
It's Cake O'Clock
Hey Friends! I hope you are well this week?
Getting the Princess Treatment
Hey Friends! So yes, I am late with the newsy this week and for that I am very sorry. Could I make up some excuse for why I’m late? Yes, yes I could but honestly folks I’m not gonna do that. Instead, I’ll be truthful and say, I don’t know what happened this last week. I did a whole lot of everything, which all equated to a whole load of nothing. Like I have been swamped and yet I have nothing to show for it? Make that make sense.
A Naughty Tart
Hey friends! THANK goodness we have finally hit February. I swear January lasted 6207 days and whilst February is no better, the mere sighting of daffodils threatening to bloom sure has put a pep in my step. Granted, that last sentence has indeed made me sound 5000 years old but folks, she’s a country gal now.
Gingerbread Spice & All Things Nice
Hey Friends! We are back with another card laden installment of the newsy. Thrilled to have you here and so grateful for those of you who have been here for over a year now. A WHOLE YEAR OF THE LAST BITE. Something that very much started off as a little fun side project to make room for my rambles and give space to the never-ending internal monologue which plays out in my brain ALL DAY AND ALL NIGHT LONG, has very much become a little sacred ritual.
Sun's Out, Buns Out
I KNOW I SAID NO MORE BOOK CHAT FOR A BIT BUT I LIED OKAY. And anyway, this one is important, I promise! I just wanted to share with my UK friends a little update on delivery. Some of you who have ordered through Waterstones may have received an update email yesterday with a new delivery date – unfortunately the books are currently sunning themselves in a port in Malaysia which means they have been held up ever so slightly.
It’s mango season, baby!
Hey Friends! It feels like it has been an eternity since I have spent some time writing a proper intro for the newsletter without me just diving headfirst into all things book related - HOW RUDE OF ME I KNOW. Super sorry about how rushed the newsy has maybe have come across of late but wowee wow, I truly don’t know where time has or is going.
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