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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Comments

227 responses to “DAY EIGHT – A Tala Baking Set worth £40”

  1. Chocolate mayonnaise cake

  2. chocolate fudge beetroot cake

  3. My favourite thing to bake is vegan carrot cake!

  4. Sharon Richardson Scott avatar
    Sharon Richardson Scott

    cookies

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

  6. Heather Haigh avatar
    Heather Haigh

    Coconut cupcakes

  7. Melanie Gardiner avatar
    Melanie Gardiner

    chocolate and chilli fudge cake

  8. Becky John avatar
    Becky John

    Chocolate fudge cake

  9. I want cake

  10. Tracy K Nixon avatar
    Tracy K Nixon

    Cupcakes!

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

  12. Kathleen avatar
    Kathleen

    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

  13. christy b avatar
    christy b

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

  14. Kimberley Stone avatar
    Kimberley Stone

    Banana Bread

  15. mel crossan avatar
    mel crossan

    chocolate and raspberry brownies

  16. Claire Smith avatar
    Claire Smith

    Spicy Apple Cake

  17. German Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte…

  18. Jo welsh avatar
    Jo welsh

    Christmas cake

  19. Joanne Mapp avatar
    Joanne Mapp

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

  20. Chocolate Heartache cake (made with aubergines!)

  21. 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.

  22. katherine grieve avatar
    katherine grieve

    Cherry and Almond cake – yummy

  23. Fiona Rennie avatar
    Fiona Rennie

    Chocolate cake 🙂

  24. 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 🙂

  25. Emma Sykes avatar
    Emma Sykes

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

  26. Emma Sykes avatar
    Emma Sykes

    My comment hasn’t appeared… Odd!

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

  27. I like making coconut cake and banana muffins

  28. Lin Young avatar
    Lin Young

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

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

  30. 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 🙂

  31. Donna Parkin avatar
    Donna Parkin

    cranberry muffins kids love them

  32. CHRIS ANDREWS avatar
    CHRIS ANDREWS

    ……fairy cakes

  33. Donna Griffin avatar
    Donna Griffin

    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 🙂

  34. Katrina Day-Reilly avatar
    Katrina Day-Reilly

    cupcakes

  35. Rhydian P avatar
    Rhydian P

    Cookies

  36. Victoria Sponge especially when baking with my daughter

  37. Pauline Rendell avatar
    Pauline Rendell

    Ginger cake

  38. Victoria Sponge

  39. Vanilla cupcakes with colourful buttercream icing 🙂 Nom.

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

  41. Alana Walker avatar
    Alana Walker

    Carrot cake, easy to make and very yummy!

  42. Faye Lester avatar
    Faye Lester

    Cupcakes 🙂

  43. 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!

  44. kirstie kenton avatar
    kirstie kenton

    chocolate topped hob nobs.

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

  46. Black bottom cupcakes. Yum!

  47. maureen moss avatar
    maureen moss

    lemon sponge

  48. Love making cheese scones

  49. Butterfly buns ;o)

  50. Tracey Peach avatar
    Tracey Peach

    My Favourite thing to bake is cupcakes

  51. Heather Oliver avatar
    Heather Oliver

    I love making fresh fruit Swiss rolls!

  52. Gwen Biviano avatar
    Gwen Biviano

    Cupcakes

  53. 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 😉

  54. Chocolate cake!

  55. grainne marnell-fox avatar
    grainne marnell-fox

    mince pies

  56. Karen wright avatar
    Karen wright

    Cookies x

  57. Chocolate Brownies 🙂 x

  58. Victoria avatar
    Victoria

    brownies 🙂

  59. Carrot cake!

  60. Chocolate chip cookies. Yum!

  61. 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.

  62. glenn hutton avatar
    glenn hutton

    Chocolate cake… ;0)

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

  64. FionaLynne Edwards avatar
    FionaLynne Edwards

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

  65. joe johnson avatar
    joe johnson

    traditional apple pie

  66. Pretty cupcakes 🙂

  67. Taylor J avatar
    Taylor J

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

  68. Cookies

  69. Donna Watson avatar
    Donna Watson

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

  70. eva appleby-gill avatar
    eva appleby-gill

    Thank you for comps Merry Christmas!!

  71. Cupcakes with a lavender colour icing sugar topping.

  72. Melissa Lawrance avatar
    Melissa Lawrance

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

  73. 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…

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

  75. Lynne OConnor avatar
    Lynne OConnor

    flapjacks

  76. Absolutely love to bake soft cinnamon pretzels!

  77. Kim Campbell avatar
    Kim Campbell

    My favorite thing to bake it Cheesecake Sopapillas!

  78. John Lynch avatar
    John Lynch

    Lemon Merengue Pie

  79. Denise C avatar
    Denise C

    Fruit bread

  80. Ed Brown avatar
    Ed Brown

    Lemon Drizzle cake

  81. Jessica Wilde avatar
    Jessica Wilde

    I love to bake gooey chocolate brownies…

  82. Nicola Jones avatar
    Nicola Jones

    Chocolate chip cookies

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

  84. Laura Oxley avatar
    Laura Oxley

    Red Velvet Cake and New York Crumb Cake

  85. Stevie Fairbairn avatar
    Stevie Fairbairn

    I like mini egg tarts at the moment.

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

  87. Flapjacks and cookies, yum!

  88. Angela Nicholson avatar
    Angela Nicholson

    Angel cake muffins, the family love them.

  89. stephanie Whitehouse avatar
    stephanie Whitehouse

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

  90. cheese and courgette scones

  91. sarah edwards avatar
    sarah edwards

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

  92. Helen Thurston avatar
    Helen Thurston

    lemon cake

  93. Coffee and walnut cake

  94. Hayley Louise Colburn avatar
    Hayley Louise Colburn

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

  95. Margarita flavoured cupcakes – alcohol included!!!

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

  97. I absolutely love to bake fresh bread and rolls

  98. Emma Mosley avatar
    Emma Mosley

    Chocolate courgette cake

  99. Eloise stingemore avatar
    Eloise stingemore

    Welsh cakes

  100. Tracy Smith avatar
    Tracy Smith

    Birthday cakes for my boys

  101. lynn mitchell avatar
    lynn mitchell

    cool

  102. Emma Lewis avatar
    Emma Lewis

    I like baking Nutella cake.

  103. LYNN DIBB avatar
    LYNN DIBB

    Love lemon drizzle cake

  104. pies they always taste much better home made.

  105. Michelle SJ Smith avatar
    Michelle SJ Smith

    I love making different flavour cupcakes 🙂 x

  106. Lou Gage avatar
    Lou Gage

    Cupcakes with the kids

  107. christine shelley avatar
    christine shelley

    Sponge cake

  108. Good old Victoria Sponge!

  109. Good old Victoria Sponge.

  110. Victoria sponge cake!

  111. Harriet Leggett-Auld avatar
    Harriet Leggett-Auld

    Flapjack or cheesecake are joint no 1 in our house.

  112. judy parslow avatar
    judy parslow

    chicken and leak pie

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

  114. Elizabeth Gurney avatar
    Elizabeth Gurney

    Chocolate brownies!

  115. Yvonne Brownsea avatar
    Yvonne Brownsea

    Cookies! x

  116. Rachel Ray avatar
    Rachel Ray

    Lemon drizzle traybake

  117. Kayleigh Butler avatar
    Kayleigh Butler

    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.

  118. Elaine Fitzpatrick avatar
    Elaine Fitzpatrick

    lemon drizzlecake

  119. Kate Duckmanton avatar
    Kate Duckmanton

    Chocolate Brownies! x

  120. Danielle Vedmore avatar
    Danielle Vedmore

    Cupcakes – any flavour! xxx

  121. Charlotte Hood avatar
    Charlotte Hood

    at the moment, mince pies

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

  123. Helen Ross avatar
    Helen Ross

    I love to bake anything with apples and cinnamon x

  124. Ginger cake!!

  125. Jane Robinson avatar
    Jane Robinson

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

  126. chocolate cake

  127. Elaine Kidd avatar
    Elaine Kidd

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

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

  129. 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!

  130. Aoife Maxwell avatar
    Aoife Maxwell

    Muffins!

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

  132. Kerri Francis avatar
    Kerri Francis

    I love to make chili gingerbread 🙂

  133. 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

  134. 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.

  135. Lynsey Buchanan avatar
    Lynsey Buchanan

    Giant Cupcakes

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

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

  138. jennifer haden avatar
    jennifer haden

    carrot cake muffins

  139. liz ferguson avatar
    liz ferguson

    cupcakes

  140. Judith Luscombe avatar
    Judith Luscombe

    Fairy cakes with butter icing

  141. Nicola Lester avatar
    Nicola Lester

    I love to bake cupcakes and novelty cakes

  142. gemma clark avatar
    gemma clark

    gingerbread!

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

  144. Non dairy Cookies 😀

  145. 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!

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

  147. Jenny Draper avatar
    Jenny Draper

    Chocolate and Amaretto cake – Delicious!

  148. Hazel Smithies avatar
    Hazel Smithies

    Chocolate cake.

  149. Hazel Christopher avatar
    Hazel Christopher

    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) 🙂

  150. Kirsteen Mackay avatar
    Kirsteen Mackay

    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.

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

  152. lemon drizzle cake – moist, delicious & easy!

  153. zoe lucas avatar
    zoe lucas

    chocolate fudge cake

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

  155. Gemma Snell avatar
    Gemma Snell

    strawberry cupcakes

  156. arabella bazley avatar
    arabella bazley

    Lemon Meringue Pie 🙂

  157. Banoffee pie 🙂 mmm

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

  159. Darlene Ovenstone avatar
    Darlene Ovenstone

    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 🙂

  160. Sheila Reeves avatar
    Sheila Reeves

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

  161. laura jayne bates avatar
    laura jayne bates

    cup cakes

  162. Susan Carruthers avatar
    Susan Carruthers

    My favourite thing to bake is fruit loaf

  163. Banana muffins

  164. my lemon drizzle cake

  165. Red velvet cupcakes

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

  167. Michelle Ferguson avatar
    Michelle Ferguson

    Cup cakes

  168. Claire Holmes avatar
    Claire Holmes

    fairy cakes with chocolate ganache topping

  169. Cupcakes

  170. Katherine L avatar
    Katherine L

    I love baking marble cake!

  171. @dollylaboo avatar
    @dollylaboo

    Lammingtons

  172. Carrot cake 🙂

  173. Lynn Heath avatar
    Lynn Heath

    Millionaires shortbread!

  174. 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.

  175. julie laing avatar
    julie laing

    carrot cake

  176. Ruth Carson avatar
    Ruth Carson

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

  177. A Classic Victoria Sponge!

  178. Christine Szlobodnik avatar
    Christine Szlobodnik

    Carrot Cake but i add vanilla to it.

  179. Victoria Sponge

  180. katie skeoch avatar
    katie skeoch

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

  181. Gill Turner avatar
    Gill Turner

    Cookies.

  182. Chris Fletcher avatar
    Chris Fletcher

    I love baking muffins

  183. I like baking cupcakes 🙂

  184. Helen Jackson avatar
    Helen Jackson

    Apple Tarts

  185. 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!! 😉

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

  187. Stacey Carnell avatar
    Stacey Carnell

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

  188. Andrea McC. avatar
    Andrea McC.

    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.

  189. Lynn Savage avatar
    Lynn Savage

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

  190. Kay panayi avatar
    Kay panayi

    Cupcakes

  191. Rebecca Jones avatar
    Rebecca Jones

    carrot cake!

  192. Amy Ripley avatar
    Amy Ripley

    Choc Cupcakes

    1. jayne fotheringham avatar
      jayne fotheringham

      chocolate cake, using grannys recipe 🙂

  193. Diana Cotter avatar
    Diana Cotter

    Chocolate brownies

  194. my special apple pie

  195. Natalie Gillham avatar
    Natalie Gillham

    lemon meringue pie 🙂

  196. Anne Wallwin avatar
    Anne Wallwin

    chocolate tiffin

  197. adam smith avatar
    adam smith

    cupcakes

  198. I like to bake my special spiced Christmas cupcakes!