Over here lately the weather has been hot. Really hot some days, simply quite hot on others. The kind of weather that makes you want to sit in the garden and chill in shade. Definitely not the kind of weather for spending indoors baking cake. The trouble is though, I quite like a nice cake… Continue reading 15 Minute Summer Berry Cake
Peeping in our kitchen window this afternoon an observer would have witnessed something very rare, a picture book family at home in the afternoon. The mother peeling apples from the garden. A boy, the eldest, writing in this workbook. A toddler colouring in a dinosaur picture, quietly. A third boy, the middle child, at the… Continue reading An Accidentally Old-Fashioned Afternoon
So, I could have gone with a sensationalist title for this post . “This 2 Ingredient No Fat Recipe Will Change You Life” or “I made these in ten minutes with just 2 ingredients. You won’t believe how easy it is till you try it”. They may or may not be true. What is true… Continue reading How to Bake Meringue Kisses
Recently, and for the first time in my life, I encountered a rotten egg. I hadn’t noticed that one of the eggs we’d brought in from the hens was slightly cracked. A week or so later I cracked it in on top of another egg to beat for baking with and saw immediately that something… Continue reading Extra Moist & Fudgey Brownies
When I was a child I had a cookbook – the Usbourne first cookbook or something along those lines. I can’t remember much of what was in it, but I do remember there was a flapjack recipe and I loved it. My mother had a red square-shaped baking tin and that was the one we… Continue reading Addictive Flapjack Bars
I’ve said before that I am not a cupcake kinda girl. I think they look pretty, but the extreme sweetness really puts me off. Living in a household of boys, as I do, there is not much call for pretty when it comes to cake. Taste is what they are after. I do like prettiness… Continue reading Easy Berry & Cream Cupcakes
