Lucy's Friendly Foods99 recipes
Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts
Welsh Cakes
For March 1st and St David’s Day what could be more appropriate than Welsh cakes! These delightful little griddle scones/cakes are a traditional delicacy in Wales – served for tea with …
Passionfruit and Lime Drizzle Cakes
Today is Father’s Day in the UK – providing the perfect excuse for making some cakes… not that I really ever need an excuse! I’ve been eyeing up these cute little loaf cases…
Lightly spiced crispy pea and mint cakes
This idea came to me after seeing a delicious sounding Ottolenghi recipe in this month’s Waitrose magazine for broad bean and mint cakes.
Chocolate Chip Scone Cake
Summer has arrived – yippee, and coinciding with the school holidays and a break from work – what could be better! 30 degree heat isn’t the kind of weather to be baking cupcakes &…
Lemon and Thyme Welsh Cakes
Someone mentioned the combination of lemon and thyme in a sweet context the other day.
Chocolate Brownie Cookies
There’s not a great deal to say about these other than they’re part brownie, part cookie… they’re chocolate brownie cookies! So they have that soft chocolate texture in cook…
‘Strictly Come Dancing’ Birthday Cake
So here is Little S’s Birthday cake from this year – she loves the TV program “Strictly Come Dancing” and really wanted that as the theme for her party.
Cinnamon Bun Cake
Mmm, these cinnamon buns baking in the oven this week have scented the house with the irresistible sweet spicy warmth.
Devil’s Food Cake AKA the Best Chocolate Cake in the World
Sensationalist title, but it IS that good.
Christmas Cake
Since today is ‘Stir up Sunday’, the last Sunday before Advent and the day you are supposed to make a traditional Christmas cake, this spurred me on to make a friendly version.
Chocolate Fondant (also known as Molten Lava Cake)
2 Years! Today marks my 2 years as a blogger – it’s been quite a journey, I really had no idea when I started how it would take off.
Chocolate Chip Welsh Cakes
Dydd Gwyl Dewi hapus (or Happy St David’s Day!) This is the third variety of Welsh cakes I’ve posted – I just find them so tempting but my original variety wasn’t very popul…
Chocolate Chip Cheesecake
Cheesecake is a big favourite in our household – probably the most requested pudding/dessert, even above chocolate brownies! This version is is reminiscent of those chocolate cheesecakes you …
Caramel marble cake
This recipe was devised due to spying a little bottle of caramel essence in Waitrose.
Chocolate and strawberry cake
I haven’t made a proper cake for ages – somehow it always seems more convenient to make cupcakes, but every now and then you can’t beat the visual appeal of a stunning centrepiece…
Classic Victoria Sponge Cake (without the eggs or dairy)
The Great British Bake Off is back on TV – yippee! It’s such great light-hearted escapism, perfect after a long day at work.
Chocolate cake with Fudgy lotus/biscoff glaze
This recipe is the result of a total experiment involving an ignored jar of Lotus caramelised Biscoff spread that was sitting in the larder, looking all lonely and sorry for itself.
Mexican spicy polenta and corn cakes
I think there is a perception that Mexican food is on the whole quite humble and not refined.
Oreo Cheesecake
I saw a pin of an Oreo cheesecake on Pinterest and felt inspired to make my own version – there was something so appealing about the contrasting creamy white cheesecake mix sandwiched between…