Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts
Apparently KitKats are the most popular chocolate bar, at least in the UK.
I don’t know about where you live, but in the UK as soon as the sun pops her head out everyone rushes to buy an ice cream; any day out is punctuated by stops in shops or at ice creams vans fo…
I make a lot of cakes but I often give them away and rarely hanker after them myself.
Part two of my series of recreations of classic chocolate bars is the iconic Twix bar- surely a common favourite.
Are there any biscuits as pretty as iced gems? The pastel hued crunchy iced top immediately draws the eye and nothing compliments a tea party more (whether real or for dolls) than a saucer full of …
I think it’s going to be a bumper blackberry year – the bushes are already bowing down with the little back gems.
Here’s the next instalment of my blackberry recipes and what could be a more autumnal combination that blackberries baked in a pie! I’ve always shied away from pies in the past, but in …
I think chocolate chip cookies are my (and the rest of the family’s) all time favourite cookie; particularly ones which are crisp on the edges and chewy in the centre.
You simply can’t beat a flapjack for energy giving deliciousness but sometimes you want more than just sweet syrupy oats.
Think of a chocolate truffle studded with yummy delicious morsels and then dusted with icing sugar – delicious, right? Well that’s the principle of this chocolate terrine – made i…
My next foray into recreating the classics are those good old favourites, custard creams.
Before we get all Christmassy round here we going for a little wander into warm cosy food – food to eat in front of a roaring fire after a crisp walk in the cold, and what could be more cosy …
Some cookies that are ideal at this time of year when everyone is sniffling and snuffling and germs seem to be lurking behind every corner.
Macarons, or to be precise Macarons Parisiens are those stunning little almond sandwiched delicacies which we all know because they are absolutely everywhere these days.
Imagine: soft golden, sweet dough, swirled with rich unctuous chocolate, sprinkled with crunchy sugar and drizzled with a sticky icing.
The perfect crispy, chewy dairy-free, egg-free chocolate chip cookie
Soft baked richly chocolatey doughnuts, smothered in a mirror shiny deeply chocolatey glaze – surely a temptation to anyone? Our house has been riddled with the most awful flu for the …