As a mummy with a reputation for making cakes, I can’t just turn up to these occasions with a bag of treat size Milky Ways. [Read on...]
I’ve been laid low by the dreaded lurgy these past four days and unfortunately still heavily reliant on anaesthetic throat spray, painkillers and hours at a time hiding under fleecy blankets on the sofa. Hence I’m publishing a post I’ve had saved for such an occasion and normal service (plus a jolly exciting Mother’s Day [Read on...]
This month’s theme is Italian. For Forever Nigella #3 “Ciao Italia” you may submit any Nigella recipes for Italian dishes or any showcasing Italian ingredients. [Read on...]
Today I am celebrating my first ever guest post on another blog. Right now you can find me at Maggy’s wonderful children’s crafts blog, Red Ted Art talking about these cute Love Hearts style cookies. Based on the popular sweets, they are perfect for Valentine’s Day and easy to bake with children. Just be [Read on...]
What do you get for being a smartie pants trying to make your cupcakes at the last minute? Smartie pants rocky road. It’s one step up from cornflake crispies but the bottom line was I knew the children at the disco would enjoy them. Which is what counts. [Read on...]
Today we go to chocolate heaven and back. Maison Larnicol is truly wonderful. I discovered it on holiday this summer in St Malo, Brittany. [Read on...]
These cookies were made using Nigella Lawson’s plain biscuit recipe for icing AKA the Butter Cut Out Biscuits from How to be a Domestic Goddess. [Read on...]
Rachel Allen describes these melting moments as “intensely chocolately and utterly moreish”. I was sceptical, afterall there was only 1oz of cocoa in the recipe. She’s not wrong though. [Read on...]
You’ll have to excuse me. The past few weeks have been rather frenetic due to this and this and it has taken me longer than promised to share this Cybermummy flapjack recipe in FIVE flavours and host a giveaway for my Cybermummy sponsor, Flahavan’s. I’ve also been doing my first ever edited movie, a [Read on...]
More very lazy cookies following on from my recent post about Pecan and Cinnamon Slice and Bake Cookies. I baked these in two halves – one batch for friends and toddlers coming round to play, one batch of dough left in the freezer for an emergency. Boy did I have an emergency last week. [Read on...]
These are lazy cookies. True, they were quite easy to make but I am doing a lazy post as there are a couple of bumper posts in the pipeline and I need to save my energy! I’m really excited about the posts I have coming up and hope that you enjoy reading them as [Read on...]
Three months in and I’ve bombed out of my first Daring Bakers’ Challenge. This month we’d been due to make Orange Tian which had core components of paté sablée biscuits, whipped cream mixed with gelatin or something, carefully cut pieces of orange segment, caramel sauce and as if that wasn’t enough, marmalade. It [Read on...]
A quick and easy pudding today. I have been lolling on the sofa watching Julie & Julia on dvd after a cupcake decorating marathon for the final Cake A Difference cupcakes. After all my hard work I am on target to have raised over £200 for Bliss and will do a dedicated post about [Read on...]
After the last bumper picture packed post I hope you will forgive me for doing a little recycling today. I had so much of the zabaglione, pastry cream, whipped cream and mascarpone mixture left over from assembling the tiramisu that I piped it into glass dishes as a separate dessert. I deliberately made some [Read on...]
My second month cooking with the Daring Bakers and I almost didn’t make it. I had a little girl’s birthday cake to finish by the same date and naturally that had to take priority! This post has been a bit of a marathon – it’s a bit long with close to 50 images but [Read on...]
The end of January marks my first outing with the Daring Bakers. I am proud to have added the Daring Kitchen badge to my side bar today and hope it this month’s challenge will be the first of very many. The January 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Lauren of Celiac Teen. Lauren [Read on...]
There will be quinoa, there will be tofu and there will be beansprouts. But not today. It’s very early January and you’ve probably got a fridge full of holiday ingredients knocking about. A nice big ham cooked in Coca Cola in the Crockpot, half a pack of vacuum packed chestnuts, the remains of the [Read on...]
Provence is a place very dear to my heart, I first visited in 1997 and have been back almost every year since. I have been to Arles for Easter, where I saw Provencal ladies dressed in these beautiful costumes but family commitments have thus far prevented me visiting at Christmas. Were I to do [Read on...]
Apologies for the yellow lighting but this is the only picture I have of these. I zapped them from my phone to my mom after I’d done them but packaged them up in a hurry next morning and forgot to re-photograph them in daylight. These butterfly cookies were taken to a play session at [Read on...]
Pressing ahead quickly with this month’s Bake Five featuring Rachel Allen’s “Bake”, “Oat and Vanilla Shortbread Cookies”. I was very impressed with this recipe. I made the cookie dough in the Magimix and left it in the fridge before taking my son to playgroup. When we got back they were just right for slicing [Read on...]
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