Issue #12 of our weekly bite-sized review series.
This week we threw an epic children’s birthday party and made a showstopper three tiered cake in a silicone cake mould for it. We also tried out some new botanical mixers, read a few new books and now own a rather lovely new personalised wooden chopping board.Â
Lekue Three Tier Cake Mould – make show stopping three tier cakes in no time with these silicone cake moulds. It was DD’s birthday last weekend and we wow’d her classmates with a Death by Chocolate extravaganza made with this mould. All three pans fit on one large baking sheet for even cooking too. RRP £25.50 from Amazon.
Personalised Wooden Chopping Board – Made from Welsh ash timber this stylish 38 x 23 cm wooden chopping board is perfect for both preparing and serving food at the table. I love the bark outer edge and there’s room for three initials within the engraved wreath design. Perfect for Christmas, birthdays or as a fifth wedding anniversary gift. Watch out for mine appearing in blog post photos in the near future! RRP £49.99 from Ijustloveit.co.uk
Fentimans Botanical Mixers – Fentimans have just launched a new line of 500ml botanical mixers. These include premium Indian tonic water, naturally light tonic water, pink grapefruit tonic water, botanical tonic water, rose lemonade, bitter lemonade and ginger beer & muddled lime. My favourite? The pink grapefruit. Perfect with gin for a refreshing and zesty long drink. Available at Waitrose.
Clover Moon – the newest children’s book by award winning and best selling author Jacqueline Wilson. Set in Victorian London this book tells the tale of Clover Moon, a child born into poverty and what she does to make a better life for herself. The perfect Christmas gift for Jacqueline Wilson fans young and old. RRP £12.99 it is currently on sale for only £6 (hardcover) on Amazon.
Five Go Gluten Free – Enid Blyton for grown-ups. George, Dick, Anne, Julian and Timmy are all feeling rather poorly. Nothing seems to work, and with their doctors mystified, they’re driven to trying out various expedients to cure themselves. Julian goes online to self-diagnose that he’s got pancreatic cancer, bird flu and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease. Anne decides that the old methods are the best and decides to have herself exorcised – which proves to be an awful lot of bother for everyone, and such a mess. Dick goes to a witch-doctor who calls himself a ‘homeopath’ (‘sounds only one short of sociopath, Dick!’) but it’s George who discovers they need to go on an exclusion diet, so they enter a world of hard-to-find, maddeningly expensive specialist foods .  RRP £7.99 from Amazon, but currently on offer for £2.99. The perfect stocking filler!
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Macaroni & Cheese with Bacon, Leeks and Peas
Love the wooden chopping board. I think wooden ones are the best.
This would actually made a pretty nice gift for my dad.
Thanks for sharing hun
Charlotte x
I used to absolutely love Jacqueline Wilson when I was younger so her new book would have been the perfect present for me! I might get it for my sister.
I like the Fentimans new line of 500ml botanical mixers. Great packaging R
Oh these all sound pretty amazing, I definitely need to get those silicone cake moulds to bake some cakes for these upcoming holidays!!
Everything looks great but the chopping board is my favourite!
Well now I need those silicone cake moulds, not that I need any more excuses to bake cakes! And a personalised chopping board is such a cute idea for a gift! great picks!!
Great post, I love the cake moulds they would come in handy as I bake when I get a chance and experiment with various tiers for birthday cakes.
Love this and the personalised chopping board sounds amazing! x
I am a huge fan of fentimans.i had no idea they did these so will have to try them x
I love the look of thatcutting board!!! Also fentimans are my faves!!!! Rose lemonade is my favourite!
What a great way to feature your reviews – some great new finds for me to try
Great items. Love the sound of the personalised chopping board.
Five Go Gluten Free sounds absolutely brilliant! Lol I love the idea! xxx
I had seen pictures of ‘Five go gluten free” on Facebook but didn’t realise it was a real book! I think we might need a copy!
Three tier birthday cake how awesome is that. Loving the botanical mixers as well, such lovely items
I love the sound of the Enid Blyton books for grown ups! I have some of the ladybird ones. Have you seen them? xx
Great choices here, the botanical mixers sound lovely, especially the pink grapefruit tonic water
Ah I do love the kitchen aids, always good to have the silicone as it doesn’t take up much space, and you can put more in the oven at the same time.
We are addicted to Fentimans Rose Lemonade and it always reminds us of hazy Summer days! Great picks!
The chopping board is fantastic. I’d quite like one.
The flavours of those waters look super yum! I think I’ll have to try those out.
The famous five books sounds fantastic I would love to read that! And the chopping board too – but I’m biased because I’m Welsh!
I love the sound of the Fentimans botanical mixers! And will have to have a read of the Enid Blyton adult books when I get a bit of spare time too 🙂 x
My dad is always on the look out for new tonics to have with gin so I’ll definitely be checking out the Fentimans Botanical Mixers x
I LOVE the adult Famous Five books, the titles alone are fantastic and I really want to read them!
Oh my goodness liking the look of the silicone three tiered cake set. Since Sarah got her first mounds im loving it more and more and finding it so easy to use.
The tier cake mould is a handy purchase, now if I ever made more than one tier lol this is what I’d need. I use to love Jacquline Wilson books when I was younger – Tracy Beaker crew here lol xo