I hope the Fudgy Chocolate Pudding recipe has gone down well this month - it certainly seems an appropriate pudding given the cold weather we are experiencing at the moment! I've seen a few yummy looking puds so far and am looking forward to seeing more. I'm trying to lose weight so looking at other people's baking is about as good as it gets for me at the moment! If you haven't baked the recipe yet this month, don't worry you've still got plenty of time to join in.

I know, we're already 11 days into November and I've only just got round to sorting out the recipe for this month! I do apologise! Those of you who follow me on twitter will have noticed I have been working on a project, which has been keeping me very busy, and the deadline was this month. Anyway, more on that later. Firstly, well done to Nicola from Nic's Notebook who was picked at random last month to receive the prize - hope you enjoy the book! On the subject of prizes, I'd just like to put in a cheeky plea and say if you know any businesses who might like to donate a small prize for the Bake It!

Here we are again, rapidly approaching the end of the month and it is time to see all those yummy Sticky Ginger cakes that you've been baking. I hope you enjoyed the recipe. I have seen a few blog posts and a few pictures floating around twitter, and aside from some exploding cakes(!), the feedback seems to be that the cake went down well.

Hope you all enjoyed last month's recipe - I certainly had some very positive feedback. Congratulations to Gemma from Growing My Family Tree who was the winner of the cupcake book. Look forward to seeing any cupcake ideas you try out :) Now the weather is turning cold and damp I thought I'd try out a recipe that would bring a little warmth and spice.

It's that time of month again where we get to see your yummy creations! I hope you all enjoyed the apple crumble cupcake recipe - it's certainly become a favourite in our house and is great for using up the glut of apples at this time of year. If you haven't got round to baking the recipe yet, you've still got plenty of time - the Linky tool will be open until 8pm next Thursday, 30th Sept, when I will choose a lucky baker at random to receive a copy of the What's New, Cupcake?

Thank you to everyone who joined in with last month's recipe - lovely to see some new faces too. All the creations looked yummy and there were some great variations involving different chocolate, apples and cinnamon. Congratulations to Sian at Pumpkin and Piglet who the random number generator picked as the winner of the lovely glass cake stand - enjoy! This month's recipe is apple crumble cupcakes, which I came up with to use up some cooking apples I have leftover. If you don't have cooking apples then I'm sure eating apples would work just as well, you may just need one extra for the recipe as cooking apples are generally bigger than eating apples.

Last month I decided to enter English Mum's Big Bakeoff with my Summer strawberry cupcakes. I watched, with my mouth watering, as the entries poured in. There were some truly wonderful looking cakes and cupcakes, and some brilliant children's entries.

Firstly, a huge thank you to everyone who joined in with the July Bake It! recipe. The lemon squares all looked delicious and I hope you enjoyed the recipe.

I love all the fruit that is around this time of year and strawberries are my absolute favourite.