December 5, 2024
Chicago 12, Melborne City, USA
Advent Giveaway

DAY EIGHT – A Tala Baking Set worth £40

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Todays delicious Advent prize is a must have for any of you that bake.

Tala have been making good quality baking utensils for over 100 years, and their baking equipment still has a deliciously retro feel to the designs.

Behind door eight Tala have kindly offered a special Christmas baking set, worth £40, to one lucky winner.

The set contains an Icing Syringe, Cupcake Cases, a Rolling Pin and a set of Snowflake Cookie Cutters.

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You’ve got 3 chances to gain an entry into todays giveaway.

* Follow Ms Taylor from Tala on Twitter (mandatory)
* Follow Retro Chick on Facebook
* Leave a comment and tell me your favourite thing to bake

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227 Comments

  • Robyn Logan Clarke December 8, 2013

    Chocolate mayonnaise cake

  • Lora December 8, 2013

    chocolate fudge beetroot cake

  • Emma Carvell December 8, 2013

    My favourite thing to bake is vegan carrot cake!

  • Sharon Richardson Scott December 8, 2013

    cookies

  • My favourtie thing to bake is fairy cakes or banana loaf 🙂

  • Heather Haigh December 8, 2013

    Coconut cupcakes

  • Melanie Gardiner December 8, 2013

    chocolate and chilli fudge cake

  • Becky John December 8, 2013

    Chocolate fudge cake

  • Matt December 8, 2013

    I want cake

  • Tracy K Nixon December 8, 2013

    Cupcakes!

  • Leigh Fenn December 8, 2013

    cookies, at this time of year specifically white choc chip/cranberry/pecan cookies, omnomnom

  • Kathleen December 8, 2013

    My favourite thing to bake are chocolatr chip biscuits, so sweet and gooey on the inside and crisp on the outside. The best treat in the world

  • christy b December 8, 2013

    I love making fairy cakes for my boys and Chocolate Guiness cake for the adults x

  • Kimberley Stone December 8, 2013

    Banana Bread

  • mel crossan December 8, 2013

    chocolate and raspberry brownies

  • Caroline Spring Clarke December 8, 2013

    Victoria Sponge Cake

  • Claire Smith December 8, 2013

    Spicy Apple Cake

  • sandra December 8, 2013

    German Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte…

  • Jo welsh December 8, 2013

    Christmas cake

  • Joanne Mapp December 8, 2013

    We love baking muffins and trying out different flavour combinations. Our current favourite bake is rhubarb and custard

  • Kitty December 8, 2013

    Chocolate Heartache cake (made with aubergines!)

  • Wendy December 8, 2013

    My absolute favourite thing is a baked chocolate brownie cheesecake (which you’ve probably seen pictures of a few times 😀 ) but its a very summery pudding.

    At the moment I’m baking lots of comfort puddings. An apple and plum cobbler hot from the oven is lovely on a cold winters day.

  • katherine grieve December 8, 2013

    Cherry and Almond cake – yummy

  • Fiona Rennie December 8, 2013

    Chocolate cake 🙂

  • Natalie December 8, 2013

    I like experimenting with unusual recipes, my last one was a chocolate cake recipe from the Great Depression that used no eggs or butter. It had white vinegar and baking soda react to make it rise and it turned out really nice 🙂

  • claire woods December 8, 2013

    Cookies

  • Emma Sykes December 8, 2013

    I love to bake vanilla cupcakes in cones and decorate them like ice creams!

  • Emma Sykes December 8, 2013

    My comment hasn’t appeared… Odd!

    I love to bake cupcakes in cones and decorate them like ice creams.

  • Tara December 8, 2013

    I like making coconut cake and banana muffins

  • Lin Young December 8, 2013

    my best cooking is I think my starters – lots of compliments

  • Angie McDonald December 8, 2013

    Cupcakes!

  • Beky Austerberry December 8, 2013

    Me and my daughter love baking cakes, buns and cookies….

  • I love Tala products, my grandma had an original icing syringe. I have asked Father Christmas for a Tala pie funnel 😀 my favourite thing to bake is bread pudding using cranberries instead of dried mixed fruit. Scrummy 🙂

  • Donna Parkin December 8, 2013

    cranberry muffins kids love them

  • CHRIS ANDREWS December 8, 2013

    ……fairy cakes

  • Donna Griffin December 8, 2013

    I love to make bread pudding using cranberries instead of mixed fruit. I make it every week and take it in for the girls at work, it also happens to be the boss’s favourite 🙂

  • Katrina Day-Reilly December 8, 2013

    cupcakes

  • Rhydian P December 8, 2013

    Cookies

  • Teresa December 8, 2013

    Victoria Sponge especially when baking with my daughter

  • Pauline Rendell December 8, 2013

    Ginger cake

  • Jayne P December 8, 2013

    Victoria Sponge

  • Jackie December 8, 2013

    Vanilla cupcakes with colourful buttercream icing 🙂 Nom.

  • kisschick1976 December 8, 2013

    I love baking fresh bread and biscuits using recipes from back home 🙂

  • Alana Walker December 8, 2013

    Carrot cake, easy to make and very yummy!

  • Faye Lester December 8, 2013

    Cupcakes 🙂

  • Perdita December 8, 2013

    I like to bake recipes from my collection of vintage cookbooks. My favourite bakes at the moment are a big “sharing” mince pie and some chocolate brownies from 50s good housekeeping that you make with cocoa and syrup. Mm!

  • kirstie kenton December 8, 2013

    chocolate topped hob nobs.

  • Andrew December 8, 2013

    Anything I can cover with marzipan.
    Battenburg cake is good.
    Happy Christmas everyone.

  • Hannah December 8, 2013

    Black bottom cupcakes. Yum!

  • maureen moss December 8, 2013

    lemon sponge

  • Barbara December 8, 2013

    Love making cheese scones

  • Nikki Hayes December 8, 2013

    Butterfly buns ;o)

  • Tracey Peach December 8, 2013

    My Favourite thing to bake is cupcakes

  • Heather Oliver December 8, 2013

    I love making fresh fruit Swiss rolls!

  • Gwen Biviano December 8, 2013

    Cupcakes

  • My favourite thing to bake is Lemon Drizzle cake or banana loaf – both so easy, so tasty and virtually impossible to mess up (always a bonus!) Of course when I am getting my daughters to bake FOR me then I usually ask for anything with cinnamon in – my eldest daughter does a particularly yummy cinnamon loaf 😉

  • Liz December 8, 2013

    Chocolate cake!

  • grainne marnell-fox December 8, 2013

    mince pies

  • Karen wright December 8, 2013

    Cookies x

  • MissMelvis December 8, 2013

    Chocolate Brownies 🙂 x

  • Victoria December 8, 2013

    brownies 🙂

  • Tanya December 8, 2013

    Carrot cake!

  • Chocolate chip cookies. Yum!

  • Karen S December 8, 2013

    scones

  • sam Swain December 8, 2013

    Madeira cake

  • theeleanorcharlotteEllie December 8, 2013

    I LOVE to bake, it is such a joy. My favourite thing to bake has to be cupcakes with exciting icing. For my sisters birthday I made rainbow icing cupcakes with minion (from despicable me) cake pops! It was great fun.

  • glenn hutton December 8, 2013

    Chocolate cake… ;0)

  • Jayne Lloyd December 8, 2013

    My favourite thing to bake at the moment is mince pies!

  • FionaLynne Edwards December 8, 2013

    Victoria Sponge using the vintage recipe where you weigh the eggs and the flour, sugar and butter weigh the same – yummy!

  • joe johnson December 8, 2013

    traditional apple pie

  • Carolin December 8, 2013

    Pretty cupcakes 🙂

  • Cheesecakes

  • Taylor J December 8, 2013

    My favourite thing to bake is cuppycakes with buttercream icing, yum!

  • Alison December 8, 2013

    Cookies

  • Donna Watson December 8, 2013

    Love baking with my daughter. We make a mean chocolate sponge cake 🙂

  • eva appleby-gill December 8, 2013

    Thank you for comps Merry Christmas!!

  • lorrainestone December 8, 2013

    Cupcakes with a lavender colour icing sugar topping.

  • Melissa Lawrance December 8, 2013

    My favourite thing to make is millionaires shortbread, especially at Christmas 🙂 x

  • Hannah December 8, 2013

    How lovely! One of my favourite things to bake is Banana Bread, as it’s yummy and uses up black bananas! Especially good with maple syrup…

  • My favourite thing to bake is Malibu coconut cupcakes…perfect for Christmas!

  • Lynne OConnor December 8, 2013

    flapjacks

  • shrivelup December 8, 2013

    Absolutely love to bake soft cinnamon pretzels!

  • Kim Campbell December 8, 2013

    My favorite thing to bake it Cheesecake Sopapillas!

  • John Lynch December 8, 2013

    Lemon Merengue Pie

  • Denise C December 8, 2013

    Fruit bread

  • Ed Brown December 8, 2013

    Lemon Drizzle cake

  • Jessica Wilde December 8, 2013

    I love to bake gooey chocolate brownies…

  • Nicola Jones December 8, 2013

    Chocolate chip cookies

  • Jules December 8, 2013

    Christmas cake! Which would look excellent covered in snowflakes using this cutters! 🙂

  • Laura Oxley December 8, 2013

    Red Velvet Cake and New York Crumb Cake

  • Stevie Fairbairn December 8, 2013

    I like mini egg tarts at the moment.

  • Fran H December 8, 2013

    Scones! Really easy, you can’t go wrong, and soooooo tasty 😀

  • Kim December 8, 2013

    Flapjacks and cookies, yum!

  • Angela Nicholson December 8, 2013

    Angel cake muffins, the family love them.

  • stephanie Whitehouse December 8, 2013

    At the moment it’s soda bread, with caraway seeds

  • Kiki Woo December 8, 2013

    cheese and courgette scones

  • sarah edwards December 8, 2013

    Not technically baking, but my fave thing is making chocolate crispy cakes!

  • Helen Thurston December 8, 2013

    lemon cake

  • Jayne K December 8, 2013

    Coffee and walnut cake

  • Hayley Louise Colburn December 8, 2013

    Daisy Cupcakes, my daughter loves making them and I love eating them x

  • LilyH December 8, 2013

    Margarita flavoured cupcakes – alcohol included!!!

  • Abigail Bruford December 8, 2013

    Got to be a classic Victoria sandwich cake for me, everyone loves a classic ;0)

  • nataliemay30 December 8, 2013

    I absolutely love to bake fresh bread and rolls

  • Emma Mosley December 8, 2013

    Chocolate courgette cake

  • Eloise stingemore December 8, 2013

    Welsh cakes

  • Denise S December 8, 2013

    carrot cake

  • Tracy Smith December 8, 2013

    Birthday cakes for my boys

  • lynn mitchell December 8, 2013

    cool

  • Emma Lewis December 8, 2013

    I like baking Nutella cake.

  • LYNN DIBB December 8, 2013

    Love lemon drizzle cake

  • Daily Brew Reviews December 8, 2013

    pies they always taste much better home made.

  • Michelle SJ Smith December 8, 2013

    I love making different flavour cupcakes 🙂 x

  • Lou Gage December 8, 2013

    Cupcakes with the kids

  • christine shelley December 8, 2013

    Sponge cake

  • alabama100a December 8, 2013

    Good old Victoria Sponge!

  • Ali Thorpe December 8, 2013

    Good old Victoria Sponge.

  • foz December 8, 2013

    Victoria sponge cake!

  • Harriet Leggett-Auld December 8, 2013

    Flapjack or cheesecake are joint no 1 in our house.

  • judy parslow December 8, 2013

    chicken and leak pie

  • kittybonkers December 8, 2013

    I love to bake chocolate sponge cake with chocolate buttercream and chocolate fudge icing! Or red velvet cupcakes, mmmmmmmm

  • Elizabeth Gurney December 8, 2013

    Chocolate brownies!

  • Yvonne Brownsea December 8, 2013

    Cookies! x

  • Rachel Ray December 8, 2013

    Lemon drizzle traybake

  • Kayleigh Butler December 8, 2013

    I love baking anything. It is a very rare treat for me to be allowed use of the kitchen, so when I do I bake whatever I have the ingredients for.

  • Elaine Fitzpatrick December 8, 2013

    lemon drizzlecake

  • Kate Duckmanton December 8, 2013

    Chocolate Brownies! x

  • Danielle Vedmore December 8, 2013

    Cupcakes – any flavour! xxx

  • Charlotte Hood December 8, 2013

    at the moment, mince pies

  • Roxie Roulette December 8, 2013

    I’ve got such a baking bug right now, this would be perfect!

  • Helen Ross December 8, 2013

    I love to bake anything with apples and cinnamon x

  • Gemma December 8, 2013

    Ginger cake!!

  • Jane Robinson December 8, 2013

    Any sort of meringue – pavlova, roulades… Even bought a copper bowl to whisk my egg whites… Dedicated 🙂

  • Jayne T December 8, 2013

    chocolate cake

  • Elaine Kidd December 8, 2013

    I love making banana cake, its just so easy you don’t even need a mixer.

  • Janaya December 9, 2013

    I’m learning all about the world of pies! I like to think I’m not too shabby either 😉 Thanks for another wonderful giveaway!

  • Sam Tatters December 9, 2013

    My favourite thing to bake *at the moment* is cupcakes – I’ve just discovered the joys of rum butter “icing” on them 😉 Though I did recently pick up a yule log recipe that I’m dying to try out, and I’ve also been looking for Victoria sponge recipes as that’s probably my favourite cake ever!

  • Aoife Maxwell December 9, 2013

    Muffins!

  • Chan December 9, 2013

    My favourite thing to bake is definitely apple crumble pie! Yummmmmmmm!

  • Kerri Francis December 9, 2013

    I love to make chili gingerbread 🙂

  • zolaspud December 9, 2013

    This time of year I like to make some squishy and firey ginger bread. The snowflake cutters in this kit would be perfect for this!
    Lemon Feather cake is always a favourite too :^D
    xXx

  • Meatloaf. Yummy!

  • Lyn December 9, 2013

    I love to bake with my little boy. My fave is to make cupcakes with him and our recent discovery of rainbow multi coloured cakes were a hit.

  • Lynsey Buchanan December 9, 2013

    Giant Cupcakes

  • clare billing December 9, 2013

    I love baking Key Lime Pie and its like cheesecake but limey and better.

  • Chelsey Wood December 9, 2013

    My faveourite thing to bake right now? Mince pies as its the season for mince pies and goodwill 🙂

  • jennifer haden December 9, 2013

    carrot cake muffins

  • liz ferguson December 9, 2013

    cupcakes

  • Judith Luscombe December 9, 2013

    Fairy cakes with butter icing

  • Nicola Lester December 9, 2013

    I love to bake cupcakes and novelty cakes

  • gemma clark December 9, 2013

    gingerbread!

  • Lisa December 10, 2013

    Hello – well – I’m current making a shopping list for a Christmas cake so I think that might be my favourite.

  • Charlotte December 11, 2013

    Non dairy Cookies 😀

  • Sunae December 11, 2013

    My favourite thing to bake is actually scones. I know they are simple, but topped with jam and cream they are just so delicious and I just can’t go past them with a cup of tea on a rainy day!

  • Jaime December 11, 2013

    Lemon drizzle cake the way my grandma used to make it for me!

  • Jenny Draper December 11, 2013

    Chocolate and Amaretto cake – Delicious!

  • Hazel Smithies December 11, 2013

    Chocolate cake.

  • Hazel Christopher December 12, 2013

    Vanilla cupcakes 🙂 My son and I bake them a lot, I bake and he decorates (he’s three so his decorating skills consist of drowning them in icing and throwing 100s & 1000s at them) 🙂

  • Kirsteen Mackay December 13, 2013

    I Love Baking so many different things it’s hard to decide but I think at the moment it is fruit scones. I just loves the feeling of crumbling the butter and flour.

  • hmf December 13, 2013

    I love baking most things – my current favourites are key lime pies and Welsh cakes.

  • Laura George December 14, 2013

    Banana bread!!

  • natashadevil December 15, 2013

    Banana Cake

  • joanne b December 15, 2013

    lemon drizzle cake – moist, delicious & easy!

  • zoe lucas December 15, 2013

    chocolate fudge cake

  • poppycj December 15, 2013

    Carrot cake – although shredding all the carrots takes a lot of work

  • Gemma Snell December 16, 2013

    strawberry cupcakes

  • arabella bazley December 18, 2013

    Lemon Meringue Pie 🙂

  • Astrid December 18, 2013

    Banoffee pie 🙂 mmm

  • Vic December 18, 2013

    Banana bread with rum soaked currants is my favourite recipe. It’s easy to bake and makes the house smell amazing 🙂

  • kim neville (@kimneville2) December 21, 2013

    chocolate brownies

  • Darlene Ovenstone December 21, 2013

    I like to bake fairy cakes with my son or scones. Our fave thing we both enjoy baking though is our triple chocolate smarties and choc buttons cake 🙂 It’s delicious but full of calories, even a small slice is too much if you’re watching your weight. Love it though 🙂

  • Sheila Reeves December 21, 2013

    Lemon drizzle cake – but just started making cupcakes, but definitely need to practice my icing!

  • laura jayne bates December 21, 2013

    cup cakes

  • Susan Carruthers December 22, 2013

    My favourite thing to bake is fruit loaf

  • Rhubarb Crumble

  • Gina M December 23, 2013

    Banana muffins

  • tamalyn roberts December 23, 2013

    my lemon drizzle cake

  • Solange December 24, 2013

    Red velvet cupcakes

  • Irene December 24, 2013

    I’m terrible at baking, but I do love making my mother’s yogurt cake. Super easy!

  • I love baking bread

  • Michelle Ferguson December 24, 2013

    Cup cakes

  • Claire Holmes December 25, 2013

    fairy cakes with chocolate ganache topping

  • Harry December 25, 2013

    Cupcakes

  • Katherine L December 25, 2013

    I love baking marble cake!

  • @dollylaboo December 25, 2013

    Lammingtons

  • Rock Cakes

  • Pernille December 26, 2013

    Carrot cake 🙂

  • Lynn Heath December 26, 2013

    Millionaires shortbread!

  • Rosa December 26, 2013

    Lemon drizzle cake and the classic Victoria Sponge always go down well. I’m not really a fan of the heavy, rich festive foods available at this time of year.

  • julie laing December 27, 2013

    carrot cake

  • Ruth Carson December 27, 2013

    Macarons, gingerbread, Portuguese custard tarts….I could go on!

  • Lucy December 27, 2013

    A Classic Victoria Sponge!

  • Christine Szlobodnik December 27, 2013

    Carrot Cake but i add vanilla to it.

  • Jan December 27, 2013

    Victoria Sponge

  • Laura Caraher (@LCaraher) December 27, 2013

    chocolate cupcakes 🙂

  • Tracy Hughes December 28, 2013

    Carrot Cake

  • katie skeoch December 28, 2013

    I love baking shortbread, it’s so easy and delicious, I’m off to make some now…

  • Coffee and walnut cake.

  • Gill Turner December 28, 2013

    Cookies.

  • Chris Fletcher December 28, 2013

    I love baking muffins

  • Karen December 28, 2013

    I like baking cupcakes 🙂

  • Helen Jackson December 29, 2013

    Apple Tarts

  • Gail Bennett December 29, 2013

    I’m a bit out of practice with baking, but I made some mince pies over the Christmas period and really enjoyed making them … and the results were yummy too!! 😉

  • Cake of any kind. Currently I’m the two time winning champion in cake decorating at our local county fair 🙂

  • Stacey Carnell December 29, 2013

    I love baking anything sweet – particularly cupcakes because there are sooo many varieties 🙂

  • Andrea McC. December 29, 2013

    Estonian pirukad (pirukas) aka perogies, pirogies, peroshka. Little pasties of fried, very finely chopped gammon and onion (use cooking bacon), enclosed in half-circles of rolled out milk bread dough, brushed with egg and baked for 20 minutes at 180 C. or until golden. Has to be bread dough, pastry not the same.

  • Lynn Savage December 29, 2013

    I love baking all sorts of cakes, my favourite is Battenberg

  • Kay panayi December 29, 2013

    Cupcakes

  • Rebecca Jones December 29, 2013

    carrot cake!

  • Amy Ripley December 29, 2013

    Choc Cupcakes

    • jayne fotheringham December 30, 2013

      chocolate cake, using grannys recipe 🙂

  • Diana Cotter December 30, 2013

    Chocolate brownies

  • agatapokutycka December 30, 2013

    my special apple pie

  • Natalie Gillham December 30, 2013

    lemon meringue pie 🙂

  • Anne Wallwin December 30, 2013

    chocolate tiffin

  • Plastig Ffantastig December 31, 2013

    Cupcakes 🙂

  • adam smith December 31, 2013

    cupcakes

  • Anita December 31, 2013

    I like to bake my special spiced Christmas cupcakes!

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