Halloween Chinatown Cashew Nut Cookies These pumpkin-shaped cookies are inspired by my travels in China and Malaysia; I was happily writing up our travels in Penang, Malaysia – reminiscing on the sights, smells and foods of this multicultural island – and simultaneously wondering what to...
How angelic do these buns look! I haven’t baked cupcakes for ages and I had a real hankering to make some over the last few days. We are in our final week of a four-week house sit in rural Lancashire, counting down to our winter...
Bonfire Night here in the UK is one of my favourite nights of the year. We wrap up warm, huddle round a bonfire to watch an effigy of Guy Falkes, our most famed terrorist failure, burn on top of it, then turn our peepers to...
Hokey Pokey, that is what I love to call this honeycomb candy. It’s a witchy, Halloween kind of name that honours the season. I guess it comes from the fact that it appears to be made up of poked out holes! It is perfect for...
Halloween is creeping up on us, here is another fun thing that I made this week. I found the silicon mould in the supermarket, apparently for muffins, and wondered what I could conjure up in them. I regularly implored to make ‘peanut butter things’ by C,...
These cute little cookies are a bit like Nightmare Before Christmas in the respect that they are Christmas cookies masquerading as Halloween Cookies. I’d bought some little Halloween cookie cutters about a month ago, thinking how fun it would be to bake little bite-sized cookies....
I love Halloween. Not the scary, freaky Halloween of adults but the colourful, Nightmare Before Christmas Halloweenyness of children. The cutesy skeletons, cheeky ghosts, glowing pumpkins and the dressing up. As a child, we always had a Halloween party at Girl Guides. Guides was weekly...
May has arrived, it is my favourite month of the year. We are in Yorkshire, hence the dry-stone wall and the skipping lambs, we are down to photograph a calendar for Hotties Supporting Help for Heros, details of which can be found here. The shoot was so...
