Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts
Our family is divided over the issue of Christmas cake; I make one every year and some of the family devour it like there’s no tomorrow, and others would simply rather have anything else.
Children seem to love hot chocolate and it obviously needs no recipe – anyone can make their own delicious version with no instruction.
It’s been an ill week in this household – so it’s definitely time for some seriously good treat food.
If you need a chocolate fix, then this is the cookie for you.
Here’s a chocolate chip cookie recipe that robust, soft, cakey and a little more substantial than your delicate cookie.
It’s been one of those days… but hopefully after three disasters in a few short hours things are going to start looking up.
Easter is a bit different for us, in a household where the children are dairy-free, egg-free and nut-free.
So, with the lack of actual Easter Eggs in this house I decided to make some chocolate biscuits in the shape of eggs.
I think that most people will agree that banana and chocolate is a fantastic combination – and this recipe can be thrown together at a moments notice from just five basic ingredients and then…
So, it’s the Year 3 cake sale day at school today and even if I wasn’t very keen on baking, it would be important to provide some cupcakes that my girls can safely buy and eat.
You may have noticed that I’m quite a fan of chocolate and coconut! The biscuit tin was looking empty and Little S had a friend coming to play on Friday, so this is a concocted recipe that ke…
She’s home! Big S came home from her activity camp today and the family is again as it should be.
So I have a half pack of silken tofu left over from the chocolate cheesecake recipe – what to do with it? I could have made brownies with silken tofu, but I’m all out of ‘safeR…
We seem to have become reliant on ending a meal with a mint chocolate! Unfortunately, our usual Mint Chocolate Crisps from Sainsbury’s Free From range haven’t been available for a while…
This is my long-time fall back chunky chocolate chip cookie, enriched with oats and soft brown sugar.
I think I’ve been making too many chocolate biscuits recently – although they’re the family favourite – so today I made some Toffee and Raisin Cookies, just for a change.
Do you remember a chocolate sauce back in the 80s that magically turned into a hard shell on contact with cold ice cream – was it called ‘Ice magic’? Anyway, this rich and sumptuo…