Lucy's Friendly Foods400 recipes
Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts
Strawberries and Cream Pinwheel Biscuits
I’m out of cocoa powder – utter disaster!! I’ve mentioned before the difficulty in finding safe milk-free cocoa and since I only visited Waitrose this week and they don’t se…
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…
Passionfruit Shortbread
You’re going to notice a distinctly fruity theme in my recipes over the next few weeks – all the early summer fruits are irresistible at the moment, so I’ve been buying tons of th…
Eton Mess
There’s nothing more English than strawberries and cream in the Summer, preferably whilst watching Wimbledon or perhaps a game of cricket (although not for me)! It seemed time to roll out my …
Tarte au Citron AKA Luscious Lemon Tart
Tarte au citron is one of my all time favourite pastries/puddings.
Strawberries and Cream Pie
The fruity theme continues! This recipe evolved from a total experiment – I was going to make a traditional strawberry cheesecake for pudding, but wondered how it would work if the strawberri…
Chewy Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
Sometimes you want a crunch and sometimes you want a chew! This recipe is for those chewy days, days when you want to linger over a cookie whilst mulling over an interesting concept.
Spiced Oatmeal Cookies with a Chocolate Thumbprint
I really like spiced oatmeal and raisin cookies, but my children have an aversion to raisins.
Strawberry Milkshake Cupcakes
I recently went in for a competition run by Hummingbird Bakery to win a copy of their new book and a KitchenAid (I dream of owning a KitchenAid!).
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.
Plum tart
This is such a simple, stunningly pretty tart you’ll wonder why you ever thought a tart needed anything more than fruit and pastry.
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.
Mini Blueberry Scones
Dried fruits are a fabulous addition to any baked goods, giving an intense flavour hit, with none of risk of excess moisture that fresh fruit can produce.
Chocolate and vanilla pinwheel biscuits
It was the termly school cake sale last week, giving the perfect excuse to bake like crazy! I always make two types of baked offerings so that my girls get to choose, it seems a bit sad to have a v…
Mexican spicy polenta and corn cakes
I think there is a perception that Mexican food is on the whole quite humble and not refined.