Since I seem to have posted every day this week and I won’t be blogging this weekend, I decided to do another blog post today. Here’s a picture of the mothers day cake I made last night and finished splodging with ganache this morning. I had to cut it into quarters to get it to [...]
August 14, 2011 – 4:55 pm
I’ve been playing around with some Sculpey recently, and decided to make almost all my chocolates in miniature form and make a necklace for craft fairs. It’s not the most excellent polymer clay work you will have ever seen but I think it fits the bill
I went to the Fabric Guild and it was pretty awesome. I got loads of fat quarters at 99p each, and though they didn’t have Alexander Henry or Amy Butler fabrics, they had pretty much all of Makower’s ranges and lots of other stuff, including small prints and plains that would be damn useful. I [...]
February 28, 2011 – 1:18 pm
Trufflepiglet is now ready to take orders! Boxed chocoaltes and other goods will come later and gradually within the next two weeks as I am waiting for photographs and packaghing, but loose chocolates can now be ordered! I have a discount code for you until the end of March that allows you 15% off all [...]
January 20, 2011 – 5:06 pm
I’m supposed to be working but all these ideas for improving my chocolates presentation and entering the chocolate box competition at the Squires Kitchen Exhibition are occupying me. Where I have previously used pre-made decoarations such as sugar diamonds and sprinkles, these are not allowed to be used and so I’m looking at what I [...]
January 8, 2011 – 5:59 pm
I’ve made some more chocolates today- sorry this is seemingly turning into a food blog! Non-alcoholic Cherry Brandy Swirls, blimming sugar diamonds have clouded up though, maybe from being in the fridge briefly? Jelly cakes- these are my new favourites! Milk chocolate cups with white chocolate tops and strawberry jelly inside! And some more Turkish [...]
January 1, 2011 – 11:26 am
I promise I will blog more this year! Now that Christmas is over, I can concentrate on building up my new chocolate business. I’m not sure how much jewellery I will be doing for a while because I feel like I need a bit of a rest from it. If I tend to blog more [...]
December 10, 2010 – 10:58 am
Sorry I have been away so long. This time of year I get very busy, and as a result a lot of my shop has been marked made to order. However I have this morning restocked the site (and also Etsy and Folksy where applicable) and I now have the following available for immediate delivery [...]
November 2, 2010 – 12:19 pm
Some of you will know that I am working on setting up a chocolate business as I plan to0 give up the craft fair side of PennyDog in the New Year and instead tour with my new venture! At the minute I am working on my recipes (official testers for the new recipes wanted for [...]
November 1, 2010 – 12:44 pm
I’m struggling to blog at the minute as I have a shedload of wholesale orders I am working on, but I have found a little bit of time to finish some ideas and list them online. I have Polo mint earrings too, but the posts haven’t set yet, so they will be online later in [...]
