Lucy's Friendly Foods181 recipes
Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts
Surprising Rich Double Chocolate Brownies
If you think of the ingredients in a brownie you most certainly think chocolate, sugar and eggs.
Chocolate Cupcakes Topped With Fluffy Chocolate Buttercream
Today is the charity cake sale that happens once a term.
Homemade HobNots (almost a HobNob)
Almost a McVities HobNob, but not quite! By making the classic McVities Hobnob type cookie at home you can guarantee that even the chocolate version is free of milk.
Chocolate Chip Shortbread
I haven’t made shortbread for a while, but there’s something so delicate and moreish about a good shortbread, I have been feeling the need to make more.
Free-from Chocolate Advent Calendar
All my daughters’ friends seem to have chocolate advent calendars.
Homemade Chocolate Spread
Little S has developed a taste for Plamil dairy-free chocolate spread and has it on her toast every morning over anything else.
Minty Chocolate Snowball Truffles
The preparations for our Christmas food have now begun! These minty chocolate truffles, coated in icing sugar to resemble snowballs would make a fabulous Christmas gift.
Petits Fours/Chocolate Coated Nibbles
These little chocolate coated nibbles are stunning served with coffee, or simply to end a meal.
Soft Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
These are a hearty kind of chocolate cookie – robust and perfect for taking on a picnic, although in the UK you might have to wait a while before you’d want to go on a picnic.
Snowy Chocolate and Vanilla Cupcakes
The idea for these cupcakes came from the inches of snow that have fallen in the last week.
Lamingtons (or coconut and chocolate sponge squares to any non-Australians)
I’ve only once eaten Lamingtons before, you don’t often come across them in the UK… however, having grown up surrounded by Neighbours fever we’ve certainly heard of them! Be…
Caramelised Roasted Banana and Chocolate Loaf
A good banana loaf recipe is a winning addition to any baking repertoire.
Vegan Chocolate Cream Pie
This was my offering for British Pie Week – a luxurious, silky chocolate and cream indulgence that was wolfed down in our household! You might think the silken tofu in the filling and the whi…
Leprechaun Cookies (Mint Choc Chip)
Tomorrow is St Patrick’s Day, requiring the cooking of some Irish food.
Cookies and Cream Cupcakes
Here’s another Hummingbird inspired idea – jazzing up vanilla topped chocolate cakes with biscuit crumbs makes a delectable ‘cookies and cream’ cupcake.
Banana and Chocolate Cookies
I always try to make some homemade treat at the weekend so that the girls can have a tempting homemade goodie when they get home from school.
Bounty Cupcakes
My jar of desiccated coconut has been staring at me, unloved as of late but wanting to be used in some delicious concoction.
Churros
Churros (minus the chocolate sauce) are one of the few freshly baked treats we can buy at fairs, festivals and markets.
