Lucy's Friendly Foods175 recipes
Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts
Mini Chocolate Meringue Pies – egg-free
I haven’t made many fancy puddings for a while and the girls get so fed up with dairy-free yogurts, (particularly since the flavours available are so limited), or fruit which they’re bo…
Coffee Shop Style Giant Chocolate Chip Muffins
Sometimes something more than toast and cereal is needed for breakfast, sometimes it needs to be something a little more fancy, indulgent and desirable.
Luscious Lemon Mousse (egg, dairy and gelatine free)
Whilst you can’t beat chocolate mousse, there’s something so light and refreshing about lemon mousse that makes me crave this cloudy zesty dessert every now and then.
Homemade Toffee Crisp Chocolate Bars
While dairy-free chocolate bars have improved enormously in the last few years thanks to brands like Moo Free and supermarket own brands, they’re still not especially exciting or child…
Chocolate cupcakes with salted caramel buttercream
Is there any more delicious and tempting combination than chocolate and salted caramel? The flecks of saltiness in sticky sweet caramel paired with irresistible chocolate is a match made in heaven.
Millionaire’s Shortbread
Millionaires shortbread, or chocolate covered caramel shortbread – is it a thing all round the world? Here in the U.
Dairy-free Chocolate Cheesecake
Now, obviously you can’t make a really authentic cheesecake if you don’t eat dairy – you do need plenty of cream cheese after all! I’ve made plenty with soya cream cheese wh…
Sinful Chocolate Fudge Cupcakes
These cupcakes are chocolatey, really chocolatey and topped with a rich sticky ganache that turns to a fudgy set icing when it’s cooled, somewhat reminiscent of shop bought chocolate cupcakes…
The Best Chocolate Birthday/Celebration Cake (dairy, egg, soya and nut-free)
I’ve realised that although I make multiple versions of this cake every year, I’ve never posted it as a recipe.
Chocolate Sablé Biscuits – best chocolate cookies ever.
Sometimes there is nothing like a chocolate cookie, it can be the ultimate sweet treat, but so often they’re not quite right, more average than awesome.
Triple Chocolate Swirl Buns
I love making sweet swirled buns, there’s something magical about using a yeasted dough and making the swirls, then watching them come’ alive’ in the oven.
Homemade Crunchie Bars – dairy-free
Thank Crunchie it’s (almost) Friday! Whilst the range of dairy-free chocolate is getting better all the time, it pales in comparison to the ‘regular’ chocolate selection in…
Raspberry and Chocolate Chip Sablé Biscuits, failed challenges and a fresh start.
Recently I’ve felt that my blog has gone off the boil, that my recipes were dull and not very inspiring, the photos were so-so and better resources could be found elsewhere.
Homemade Dairy-free Digestive Biscuits
The latest in my ‘recreate a classic’ series, which I work on occasionally.
Dairy-free MilkyWay Chocolate Bars
Chocolate – it’s ubiquitous isn’t it? Everywhere you go there are tempting, brightly packaged chocolate treats enticing you to buy them… at the check out in most shops.
Caramel Crispy Bars
No word of a lie, these chocolate coated caramel crispy cakes are as addictive as a banned narcotic.
Chocolate Twists – The Ultimate Easy Breakfast Pastry
As a family we struggle to find exciting breakfasts, and generally revert to good old toast or cereal.
Chocolate Caramel Bars
Next up in my series of homemade chocolate bars are a friendly version of my very, very favourite creamy dreamy Caramel.
Chocolate Pancakes with Rich Chocolate Sauce
Everyone loves pancakes, and it is essential to have a good few recipes for creating quick and exciting breakfasts or puddings, and obviously for Shrove Tuesday a.
Dotty Cookies
Delicious syrup flavoured soft (or crunchy) cookies studded with colourful chocolate beans (a.