Cookies… something I know a thing or two about as I work for a big bakery that specialises in them. But there are so many recipes out there for them, it’s difficult to find a decent one that always works. This always works! It’s effectively a double choc cookie base so you can leave it…
Category: Sweet
Recipe – Honeycomb / Cinder Toffee
Who doesn’t love honeycomb? Well, two of my three sons for a start as I discovered yesterday! All the more for me and the missus. Honeycomb is on the one hand so easy to do – 3 ingredients and water – and on the other hand relatively pressured and exciting for around 10 seconds. Lots…
Recipe – Secret Centre Chocolate and Orange Spider Cake for Halloween
Halloween is a great time for parties, and whilst there are loads of seasonal cake options in the shops, with a bit of planning you can make this brilliant centrepiece. It’s huge, full of ‘wow’ when you cut it and super tasty. You will need two 18-19cm loose bottom round cake tins and a 2cm…
Recipe – Halloween Swamp Monster Cupcakes
Here’s a new twist on a cupcake, especially for Halloween. Green sponge with a hint of coconut and blue frosting monster on top, they look great fun and kids (and grown ups) will love them! The decorations were bought at Wilko’s who have a great selection for Halloween. For 12, you will need: 175g self…
Recipe – Simple Pear and Ginger Cake
Autumn is a wonderful time for bounteous British produce, including vine, bush and tree fruits. I love baking with ginger and the whole family are quick to devour any of the resulting biscuits or cakes. Pears are a great ingredient for baking with too. Each variety has its own little quirks but on the whole,…
Recipe – Easy Meringue
We always have lots of blackberries this time of year from a bush that grows over our garden wall, but this year we’ve had more than we usually do so I’ve been thinking of ways to use them up. One of my favourite puds is Eton Mess and you can use blackberries for this, but…
Recipe – Ginger and Honeycomb Rocky Road (No Bake)
Rocky Road is a great invention, easy to make, versatile and super yummy! This version is my favourite combos of milk and dark chocolate, honeycomb and ginger nut biscuits, but you can change them for others things you might prefer. You will need: 100g quality milk chocolate 100g quality dark chocolate 130g unsalted butter 3…
Recipe – Triple Ginger Cake
Ginger cake conjures up thoughts of school dinners with lumpy custard or afternoons with my Nan. It’s a lovely cake (with nice custard!) and is quite flexible, you can have it hot or cold. Topped or plain. This recipe goes full beans on the cold version, with three forms of ginger and a wonderfully indulgent…
Recipe – Easy Oat and Coconut Cookies
Another great recipe for the kids to help with, and my kids also help with the eating too the cookies are so yummy! A grown up will need to help with the melted butter but be ready for buttery and mucky hands! For 12 you will need: 50g porridge oats 80g plain flour 30g desiccated…
Recipe – Easy Fruit Loaf Cake
As a big tea drinker, I do love a butter slice of good fruit cake as a morning snack. I’ve always bought my fruit cakes so worked up a recipe to use the raisins I had in the cupboard. This is such a simple, quick recipe you’ll be tempted to make it weekly! You can…
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