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BIG FORK LITTLE FORK APP… This app is for the family to enjoy recipes, video how-to’s and educational games aimed at getting the whole family to cook together, all brought to you by Kraft Foods Chef Marcus Samuelson. They also have a Big Fork Little Fork shop where you can purchase items from. Available from itunes.apple.com THE BETTY CROCKER COOKBOOK FOR YOUR IPAD… The Betty Crocker Cookbook for your ipad creates and entirely new cooking experience by using this app. From start to finish you’re guided through each step with the kitchen tested expertise you come to rely on. Search…

The Great British Bake Off returns to BBC2 from tomorrow, 20 August with Mary Berry, Paul Hollywood and a new set of baking contestants. The first series had 10 participants, with 12 baking in series two and three and this series has 13 participants !! However, this year’s show got off to a gruesome start, as apparently every contestant sliced their fingers on day one. According to The Sun, Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry were shocked at the sight of blood-smeared counter tops and bakers with cuts. In their efforts to impress the two baking legends, all of the contestants…

Phil Vickery’s Seriously Good Gluten-free Living £4.99 from iTunes is specifically designed for sufferers of coeliac disease, a condition where the immune system attacks the gut which is triggered by eating gluten. The app has been created by Phil Vackery and includes more than 40 gluten-free recipes, videos and a list of essential ingredients. https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/seriously-good!-gluten-free/id396080026?mt=8

Chocolate Irresistible Recipes app has over 50 delicious recipes of cakes, gateau, hot desserts, cold desserts, small cakes and cookies and sweets and drinks. Available from itunes.apple.com

Did you know that in the early 1900’s the great lawns of private estates were filled with countless croquet and badminton fanatics. They spent their summer days playing these games until the early evening. Of course, to keep them from becoming dehydrated they had regular stops for drinks and their favourite choice of refreshment was ‘tea’, which was taken in the lawns and countryside amid the badminton, shuttlecocks and rosewood mallets.

This year they have got not one, but two competitions – one for the professionals and one for the home bakers. The categories are the same for both competitions, with four to choose from. A winner will be announced for each category, and will then go forward to contend for the title of National Cupcake Champion. Fifteen finalists will be shortlisted in each category. The shortlisted finalists will be revealed in September, with the finals taking place in association with Cake International, on 9 November its Birmingham show. A panel of top judges will put the cupcakes through their paces,…

Another brilliant baking app… ” has 60 recipes for cakes and pies, sweet and savoury pastries, cookies and breads and is beautifully photographed and displayed in high resolution. It will definitely inspire you to bake. Available from itunes.apple.com

The Good Food Magazine App is packed with inspiring recipes for every meal, triple tested in the BBC Good Food Magazine with stunning images of food which just look good viewed anyway. Easy to used and navigate. Available from itunes.apple.com

It’s Baking time for many charities throughout the summer with lots of afternoon teas and coffee morning events raising funds for different charities. If you haven’t taken part in one of these before then why not hold one this year. Meningitis UK – Sign up to host a Time 4 Tea event this September – simply fill out the registration form on the Meningitis UK site for a fund-raising pack full of party tips and goodies. The National Osteoporosis raised over £10,000 in the last three years from proceeds from coffee mornings and so again are looking for people to…

For a 15.5cm (6”) cake tin 200g each of Self Raising Flour, Caster Sugar and Butter 4 Eggs For a 18cm (7”) cake tin 250g each of Self Raising Flour, Caster Sugar and Butter 5 Eggs For a 20cm (8”) cake tin 325g each of Self Raising Flour, Caster Sugar and Butter 6 Eggs For a 23cm (9”) cake tin 450g each of Self Raising Flour, Caster Sugar and Butter 9 Eggs

Planet Bake has everything a home baker could possibly ever need. From cake stands, tins, teapots, these fabulous bowls, mugs, aprons, oven gloves, you name it this site has it. They have some brilliant gift ideas for lovers of home baking. You can also sign up for a regular newsletter that will keep you up to date with the latest home baking trends.

Dicing on the Cake is a Board Game Café that will hopefully open later this year or early next year in Kent. The idea of a Board Game Café is that while you enjoy your food and drinks you can rent out and play a board game at the same time How wicked is that – I bet that really catches on. https://www.facebook.com/DicingOnTheCake

During the 18th Century Tea Gardens were the place to be seen in London. The eighteenth century produced far and away the most amusing and attractive society that England has ever known. It was a society addicted to among other things, tea. They must have drunk that first ship’s load down and sent it back for more at once, for by 1725, England was using a quarter million pounds of tea a year. Tea was still “tay” in 1711, when Alexander Pope wrote The Rape of the Lock, with its often overlooked reference to Queen Anne presiding at Hampton Court:…

The Tea Stop is a 1966 RML Bus, that has been converted into a retro style diner with a kitchen downstairs.  The Bus had its first outing as a café at Wychwood music festival in 2009. Since then it has been to a number of festivals and events and are always on the look out for new ones.  They serve tasty Cakes and Cream~Teas on vintage china. Outside they have have seating for around 60 people and upstairs up to 32 people. 

Riverford Organic Vegetables itunes.apple.com An organic vegetable box company from Devon that delivers across the UK, Riverford Organic Vegetables also offers a useful recipe app, inspired by its Field Kitchen restaurant and the recipes it writes for its organic vegboxes. This free app allows you to browse over 770 recipes which have been tried and tested by customers. Browse alphabetically or use its vegetable ‘slot machine’ to find recipes based on three different types of vegetable selected by you. The recipes are simple to follow but interesting and original with results for baked courgettes, mint and chilli, beetroot and orange…