I launched Splat Cooking in 2001 as a cooking party company to encourage children to learn to cook and show them how much fun cooking is. The natural progression to the parties was after school cooking clubs and cooking workshops, then I was asked by their parents to teach them so they could help their…
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Halloween cupcakes and glow in the dark icing
The children at Splat Cooking’s Saturday morning club decorated Halloween cupcakes this weekend and here are the amazing photos. We also made glow in the dark icing, although it’s not really glow in the dark as you need a black or UV light to really make it shine but it does work. You will need:…
Thame Food Festival
Yesterday dawned lovely and sunny and we all breathed a sign of relief as it was Thame Food Festival and we’d waited a whole year for this amazing food festival and were desperately hoping that it wouldn’t rain. I was kicking off the first dem of the day in the chef’s theatre at 10am with…
GlitterGate – the drama continues
After much goings on over the past few months the team over at Splat Cooking have just withdrawn EdAble Art Glitter from sale due to current labels being on contravention of the Food Safety Act 1990, here’s the article for further info http://www.splatcooking.net/blog/new-products/2012/09/edable-art-glitter-withdrawn-for-the-moment/ Splat Cooking are currently trying to source an alternative product as the…
Thame Food Festival Exibition at Thame Museum
I spent a lovely evening in the company of some amazing chefs on Thursday to kick of an exhibition of food photography by the lovely Debbie Jones of Imaging Essence. Lotte Duncan gave her usual cheeky style speech in the company of Katie and Giancarlo Caldesi, Steve Love from McCormick Spices, Le Manoir as Raymond…
Cupcake Glitter – is it safe to eat?
I’ve used Edable Art glitter for years, I make sure that the products myself and the team source for Splat Cooking are safe to eat, after all Splat Cooking is all about teaching children and adults how to cook safely so the items we sell have to reflect that. Over the years there have been…
Toddler Cookery Classes – Splat Cooking
I’m very proud to be launching Splat Cooking’s (@splatcooking) new toddler cooking club cookery classes. The Splat Cooking team have put so much work into planning these new classes they promise to be educational, enjoyable, fun and inspirational for toddlers as well as their parents or carers. When my children were little there were a…
Interview with Peach Trees and Bumble Bees
The lovely Ashley Fryer interviewed me last week for Peach Trees and Bumblebees, Ashley’s fantastic recipe and foodie website blog. It was one of those “should I give a proper grown up answer?” or “should I give a smart alec answer?”, so figured I’d do ‘honest’ answers. Click on the link above for the interview
Foodie Advent Calendar
Splat Cooking have just launched a Foodie Advent Calendar, from 1 December they’re going to be putting up a different recipe a day for the 24 days running up to Christmas. The recipes will be related to Christmas and could fall into the following categories: Edible Christmas presents Christmas tree decorations Nibbles and canapes for…