The Little Bakery of Happiness

02/09/2026

Afternoon! Anyone else at Carfest over the bank holiday weekend?

I know a lot of you weren’t as you were busy shopping on my website and setting off lots of out of stock notifications! Thank you for that 💕 Your orders were either collected by the postie today or will be collected tomorrow morning. If you’ve been on the website to find your favourite happiness is out of stock, I’m just waiting on ingredients to be delivered and I’ll reset the stock counts. Thank you in advance for your patience 🥰

If you were at Carfest, how amazing was it?! Eating was a bit of a struggle as I couldn’t really find much that catered for coeliacs, but I was definitely winning at life to have the excuse to eat fish and chips three days on the bounce thanks to Well Nice Food.

I didn’t have the frickles as I was trying to be all grown up and sensible and have protein in my meal. But I will *definitely* be putting them on my list of things to make at home 🙃

18/08/2026

I wonder if, when my parents named me, they had a hunch that I would eventually become a baker and that the Victoria sandwich would be my favourite cake?

A good job they didn’t name me after a famous gardener, eh? 🙃

PS The recipe for this cake is on my website 💕

17/08/2026

Oooooooh, look! It’s nearly that time of year again - when I vow to recreate something from each week of GBBO and blog about it afterwards…then fail by week two 🙃

Life is about to get sweeter. Bake Off is coming soon...

15/08/2026

Here’s my fired plate, which I picked up from Pot en Ciel Ceramics yesterday.

I don’t know about you, but I think this qualifies me as a creative genius 🙃🤪

May your weekend be filled with happiness 💕

12/08/2026

Meanwhile, at Happiness HQ, Mr Happiness attempts to explain to me how using a colander to watch the eclipse is ‘exactly the same principle as how a pinhole camera works'.

I mean, I can talk you through the chemical composition of an egg but this? Eh?!

Hope you got a good view if you were trying to watch it 💕

30/07/2026

I swapped my baking tools for paint brushes today and finally found the time to visit Pot en Ciel Ceramics in Oundle.

Some of you may remember that Agnes and I were neighbours way back when we both had our businesses at Nene Court.

It was lovely to catch up and it's such a beautiful setting to sit and paint.

This is my creation, which I fear looks far better now than it will after it is fired. I’m so long-sighted that I need glasses for close-up work. And I forgot to take them with me, so I could barely see what I was painting 🙈🤣

Huge fun, though!

Merci, Agnes 💕

24/07/2026

I wish you the happiest of weekends and invite you to lick the screen 💕

17/07/2026

Today I baked my first ever Paris-Brest (of a fashion 🤪)

Traditionally, it is filled with a praline cream and topped with flaked almonds. I filled mine with a whipped salted caramel cream and topped it with chocolate fudge sauce and a salted caramel drizzle.

It was sparked by a conversation I had earlier this week with Ben from The GF Table by Ben Haggerty.

He asked me if there was anything I had not baked before that I would like to bake. I didn’t have an answer for him straight away, but the question burrowed its way into my head like a brain equivalent of the proverbial ear worm 🙃

And today, this is where I landed.

My choux pastry piping skills need a little work, but I care not one dot as it was absolutely divine. Definitely one for the recipe vaults 💕

Thanks, Ben!