This week we made these raspberry shortbread hearts for Valentines Day. The vanilla bean paste and freeze-dried raspberry pieces make the house smell love as they bake. I love to bake with my children as they have such fun weighing out the ingredients, mixing, pouring […]
As I am trying to be generally more healthy at the moment, these slow cooker pumpkin seed and mango oat bars are a healthier snack suitable for the whole family, with plenty of flavour. My kids think anything baked like cookies is tasty, and they […]
Sugar and Crumbs recently sent me two new flavours of their naturally-flavoured icing sugars to try out. The first was Black Forest and with this I made Black Forest Cherry Friands. The second was Chocolate Milkshake which I knew straight away I would make into […]
The second episode of #Great British Bake-Off with its theme of Biscuits is no doubt inspiring bakers and bloggers across the land to break out the biscuits and get baking again, like all the Swiss rolls and cherry cakes last week. I thought the florentines […]
These banana oat chocolate chunk cookies smell wonderful and only took a couple of minutes to make before they were ready to pop in the oven. With only two basic ingredients you can replace the chocolate chunks with raisins, walnuts or whatever you fancy. You […]
Lots of my recent bakes have been made in my slow cooker. Sometimes though I just want to make something quickly, so I can eat it now and not in a few hours! Today was one of those days. I used my giant cookie basic […]
After the excesses of Easter, what better than a nice fresh shortbread with lime zest and white chocolate! This takes only minutes to put together, including the weighing, and is so tasty for an afternoon or after-school snack. Ingredients: 50 g caster sugar 125 g […]
Another day, another craving for a slow cooker giant cookie… This time I decided on white chocolate and blueberry since that is a classic combination that works so well. Using fresh fruit gives it a lovely flavour but you could also use dried blueberries. If you […]
Following on from my last giant cookie made in my slow cooker, I decided to make a very chocolatey one with strawberries. Yum! Read on for my recipe for a slow cooker giant strawberry and chocolate chunk cookie! How to Make a Giant Cookie in […]
A giant chocolate chip cookie, served hot with ice cream and chocolate sauce – are you drooling yet?? What’s even better is you cook the cookie in your slow cooker so you can go and get on with your to-do list while you wait for […]
As I wasn’t working on Valentine’s Day, I decided to bake these jam heart biscuits as I thought my girls would love them. The recipe is from BBC Good Food here. You have to shape the dough into balls, then squeeze two together on grease […]
Today I fancied baking something simple, so I looked for a biscuit recipe and found this one which I just happened to have all the ingredients for in my cupboards handily! Easily whipped up in time for my daughter have after school, they were very […]
