saintcooks, Author at The Saint Cooks

Coconut Fingers Celebration Cake

Coconut Fingers Celebration Cake The wait is finally here! It’s the Great British Bake Off Final!! The past 10 weeks has been one sticky sweet rollercoaster ride for the bakers in the tent. And through all the ups and downs, the rises and raw dough

Napoleon’s delight

Napoleon’s delight It’s the semi finals!!! And it's French Patisserie week! Alongside semi-finalists, Ruby, Rahul, Briony and Kim-Joy we have been baking our little hearts out and made, hands down, our best showstopper to date! Our Napoleon’s delight cakes are a celebration of St Helena

No Fishy Business

No Fishy Business Our artistic licence membership cards were pulled out once again this week to adapt the Bake-off theme of Danish week to a St Helenian inspired creation. St Helenian cuisine only really does one type of pastry, our beloved curry puff, so

Pimpin’ up ya Pastry

Pimpin’ up ya Pastry Pastry week has arrived and ohhh my days, have we baked up a doozy this week. A little jam tart, decadent, morrish and so beautifully pimped up some might say it makes regular tarts look plain and boring. Crowned in

A Trifling Time

A Trifling Time Week 4 of our epic bake-along with the Great British Bake Off has us tackling Dessert week. Our artistic licence platinum membership cards out again in full force, we brazenly took the theme and applied liberal lashing of cream and custard to create

One year anniversary

One year of Saint Cooks! On the anniversary of what has been a year of learning for us, we’re made a list of what we’re learned. Do the things which you most enjoy. We still don’t know what we’re doing. And it’s ok. Need to

Better than sliced bread

Better than sliced bread With biscuit and cake week now under (or bulging over) our belts, we got out the flour and dusted down our kitchen worktop ready for our biggest baking challenge to date. I’m not going to lie, Robin and I were a

Having our cake and eating it

Having our cake and eating it The first episode of the GBBO season 9 done and truly sugar dusted. The credits hadn’t even began rolling before we had started planning our bake along for week two. This week’s challenge is Cake Week — Whoooo!! And we have

That takes the biscuit

That takes the biscuit The Great British Bake Off Season 9 is back!! Inspiring home cooks up and down the nation to grease those cake tins, get out a big wooden spoon and whip up something delicious for 10 glorious spongy sweet weeks. We are

St Helena’s Day 2018

St Helena’s Day 2018 The 21st of of May each year is an important day for us. Yes, it is the anniversary of discovering St Helena in 1502, however, now more importantly it is the day we invite all of our friends to celebrate with

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