Lucy's Friendly Foods408 recipes
Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts
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…
Lemon Sherbet Drizzle Cake
One of the few joys of the summer holidays drawing to an end and Autumn approaching is the return of the Great British Bake Off.
Afternoon Tea at The Langham Hotel, London
I’m always astounded by my girls that they have never made a fuss, never whined and whinged about having food allergies.
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…
Cake Pops
My girls have often asked to try cake pops but I always presumed they were difficult to make – surely an orb of sponge is fairly tricky with no gadgety cake pop maker? As it happens, cake pop…
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.
Cherry and Sultana Christmas Cake
Christmas isn’t Christmas without a cake, right? But a Christmas cake that is free-from eggs, milk and nuts is almost impossible to buy.
Christmas Spiced Mini Shortbread Bites
I love the warm spices of Christmas, the gentle cosy hug of cinnamon, ginger and mixed spice.
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…
Cinnamon Streusel Coffee Cake
Have you ever had an an American style coffee cake? Not a coffee flavoured cake which were so popular in the U.
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.
Tropical Breakfast Muffins and Smoothie
It seems to have taken forever for proper spring/summer to arrive this year.
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.