Hello my loves! When I haven't been studying cheese, watching Dan and Phil on repeat because it is horrific outside and I need some form of comfort watching, or desperately (DESPERATELY) trying to reach my 100 book goal on Goodreads, I have been hard at work.

I have also been stress baking.

So, it turns out that if you have been baking for your friends and colleagues for about half a decade, the greatest compliment is when they eat it up so quickly you never get a photo. The con of this, of course, is when you realise you can apply for Great British Bake off and that you have no photos.

My application, by the way, is now in (hoping this blog post doesn't jinx it!) – and my greatest achievement (in my humble opinion) was my raspberry tart – homemade golden pastry, crème diplomat, meticulously ordered raspberries – it was GORGEOUS and took DAYS on and off to make – here, have a photo.

On a more -workish- note though, let me tell you about some of the highlights of the last semester through a way now ingrained in my brain. Recipe cards. (P.S., recipe for double ginger cookies – a super easy slightly festive fave at the end!)

Okay and now a real recipe...