4 different ways with the flavour of hot cross buns Hot Cross Bun choices these days have gone crazy! I have seen salted caramel, toffee fudge, earl grey & lemon, chocolate chip, triple berry, Bramley apple, blueberry, orange & cranberry and many more variations! You can also get savoury hot cross buns (please explain this to me!) in the form…
The best cake ever! St. Clements Cake here we come Citrusy, zingy, melt-in-the-mouth soft delicious sponge! I am hooked! Seriously, I take it all back! I DO like citrusy cakes or to be specific, this St Clements cake! It’s only taken me 40-something years to realise it! Oh My Gosh! Okay, so strictly speaking this cake is lemon & orange,…
Jump to Recipe You’ll love these easy 3 ingredient cinnamon pastries The pastry was not intended for this, but you’ll love these easy 3 ingredient cinnamon pastries! If you need a quick dessert or snack, or even breakfast, these are fantastic! These are crispy and flaky with a delicious delicately spiced soft filling. Perfect! Oh, and I made 25 of…
5 minute Black-forest trifle – make everyone love you! Trifle is a dessert that I only tend to make when someone asks! Usually I try to avoid it as all the component parts make it far too complicated and time-consuming! Well my friends, this 5 minute Black-forest trifle – will make everyone love you! If you have just a few…
Vegan Florentines These vegan florentines are so very tasty I find it hard to believe this is the first time I have created a recipe for them! I thought (wrongly) that florentines were something that I could take or leave, but how wrong was I! I even ate not one, but two before dinner they were that tasty! Think crisp…
Apple Crumble Cake When you have lots of apples and have already made apple crumble, baked apple dumplings, apple crumble slice and apple jumble! what do you do? You create something new! Apple Crumble Cake! This is cake. There are spiced apples. and crumble. All. Rolled. Into. One! Perfect! Your go-to Recipe I have made this with straightforward ingredients which…
Puff Pastry Ideas You might think of puff pastry as something that you are not too fussed about, but it is a fantastic fridge (or freezer) standby for so many things! For example, you can make a quick and tasty meal, a dessert, breakfast or even just a snack! As you may have guessed, I’m talking ready made puff pastry!…
Six ideas for your Macmillan Coffee Morning What a different coffee morning it will be this year! However, it will of course still involve cake and donations! There are Covid-19 guidelines to follow, which means (where we are in the UK), no more than 6 people gathering together and keeping 2 metres apart. Precautions around sharing foods means I might…
Traditional Kurdish Kulicha for Eid Kulicha is traditionally made to celebrate Eid. Well people, today, Friday 31st July 2020 is Eid so if you fancy making these over the weekend, you’d be well in keeping with tradition! These traditional Kurdish Kulicha for Eid, can of course, be made at any other time too! There are many many different variations you…
