I’m in Switzerland! We’ve returned to the Lauterbrunnen Valley, near Interlaken for two weeks of festive, snow filled fun after loving it so much last year. And boy have we had snow! We arrived by train, well 4 of them, from London late on Wednesday...
My friend Emma sent me a challenge for an apple and custard muffin, as a custard lover this grabbed my interest immediately. I gave it some thought, I’ve made apple muffins in the past so I just needed to give them a heart of custard,...
Raspberry Coconut Ice I’ve been meaning to create this recipe for a while, it’s very easy and very tasty! There is no baking or heating involved and the recipe only contains four ingredients yet these are sure to impress and would make a wonderful homemade...
I might have gone a bit overboard with these cupcakes. Originally they were simply going to be a basic chocolate sponge topped chocolate buttercream, some caramel and a Rolo. They evolved to become individual Rolo Brownies, with a caramel centre, topped with chocolate caramel swirled...
These delicious coconut macaroons are terrifically easy to make, a bit of a one bowl wonder! It took a few batches to get it right but I’m thrilled with these. Normally this type of macaroon is made with egg whites but I wanted an equally...
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,...
Check this baby out for a wonderful autumnal pud! This is one of my favourite desserts, light sponge topped with soft apple in a buttery cinnamon syrup, served warm with lashings of cream or custard. It’s easy to make too. There are three young apple...
Completely inspired by this weeks episode of The Great British Bake Off, I just had to have a go a some Petit Fours. Petit Fours {Petit Four translates as little oven} are mouth sized cakes or pastries which are often served at the end of...
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....
Effie was my nan: She was a good baker and these were her greatest bake. Well, my brother and I certainly thought so when we were children, we hoovered them up given half the chance! They were always refered to as bakewells, it wasn’t...
These awesome muffins are a veganised version of my Banana, Peanut Butter and Chunky Chocolate Muffins, but in no way are they inferior. To give them a bit more oomf over the originals, I’ve made them chocolate with a generous measure of quality cocoa powder, given them...
These little buns will become firm favourites in your baking repertoire, they are a much requested recipe of mine and certainly put a smile on your face. The sponge is light as air and studded with crunchy nibbled hazelnuts while in the centre they have...
Last Autumn, while we were staying in Grenoble we took a trip down to Provence to visit an old friend. She was now living an a plus beau village, picturesque Collobrieres. She gifted me a jar of Creme de Marrons {sweet chestnut puree} which had been made...
I first baked these delicious cookies while house sitting in France last year. I was looking after a gorgeous cat, called Wallace, in Grenoble, at the foot of the French Alps. There were a heap of vegan cookbooks on the bookshelf, amongst them was the rather...
