When it comes to baking on a budget, Approved Food is my new favourite place for buying supplies. I recently shopped there with the intention of topping up my baking supplies cupboard in preparation for doing some epic baking. I was amazed when I saw the baking section filled with my favourite Wilton goodies. There…
Double Chocolate Chunk Cookies : RECIPE
There’s something about a double chocolate chunk cookie fresh from the oven with an ice cold glass of milk that just can’t be beaten. I’m not sure if it’s how it whisks me back to 1986 to memories of baking with my Grandma or going to Millie’s Cookies for the first time with my girl…
Swiss Roll Ice Cream Bombe : RECIPE
When it comes to quick and easy desserts that look stunning, you can’t beat a Swiss roll ice cream bombe. It takes about 5 minutes to prepare and it looks truly spectacular once it arrives at the table. The Swiss roll ice cream bombe does not involve any baking, just some slicing and scooping followed…
Strawberry Omelette
Strawberry omelette may sound disgusting to some but it’s delicious, even if it did come about a bit by accident. We eat French toast for breakfast at least once a week and I wasn’t paying very much attentition when I started this weeks batch. I only had 5 slices of bread. That was not enough…
Chocolate & Vanilla Simple Birthday Cake
It’s been mostly about the simple birthday cake this month. This basic chocolate & vanilla loaf cake is a great cake to make for a special occasion. It’s really simple with just a basic vanilla sponge cake baked inside a loaf tin which is then cut in half, has a bit of buttercream in the…
Coffee & Vanilla Viennese Biscuits
Coffee is a brilliant ingredient for baking. I love it in cakes, creamy puddings and in a nice buttery biscuit. I also got a fancy pants new double piping bag for my birthday last week and I was dying to create something worthy for it’s first outing. I had to make Viennese biscuits! Yes OK….
Cherry Vanilla Cupcakes
Cherry vanilla cupcakes are a long forgotten favourite of mine. When my local discounted food store was selling off bags of dried cherries and strawberries at 3 for £1 I couldn’t resist buying a few quids worth. I had to make my unloved recipe for cherry vanilla cupcakes. I hadn’t made them for a few…
Vanilla Cake Bites with Chocolate Chunks
I’ve been a bit silly and ended up with a glut of cake so I decided to make some cake bites to use up the cake before it went stale. Cake bites are like cake pops, but without the stick. You don’t need to cook anything when you make cake pops or bites this way…
Vanilla & Irish Cream Valentines Cake
Vanilla & Irish cream Valentines cake is a great foodie gift. It’s pretty cheap to make and takes less than an hour from start to finish! It’s a variation on a Victoria sponge which looks pretty amazing with very little effort! There’s nothing more special than your other half thinking you have spent all day…
Valentines Biscuits
Valentines Day is less than a month away now. I’ve been thinking about what foodie gifts I can bake for Misteright. I was thinking about some Valentines biscuits. A simple variation on my favourite biscuit recipe. To create the “made with love” message on each biscuit I used the Vintage Floral cookie press from Wilko…