Did you know that Whitworths have recently launched a new ‘Whitworths for Baking’ range, comprising of six high quality baking sugars – fine caster, superfine icing, fine demerara, crunchy demerara, light soft brown sugar and dark soft brown sugar, as well as a ‘Twist and Sprinkle’ icing sugar duster with built in sieve. The range…
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The Anchor Cooking Challenge
I was challenged to bake a family friendly recipe using Anchor Butter. I wanted to get my toddler involved as he loves baking so we made some yummy vanilla cupcakes. Ingredients: 125g Anchor butter 125g caster sugar 1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence 2 eggs 125g self-raising flour dash of milk Method: Cream the butter and sugar…
The Simple Things
I was stupidly excited when I heard the people behind Mollie Makes were bringing out a new magazine called The Simple Things. I’ve decided that I need my monthly fix of craft eye candy, even if I’ve never made any of the cover gifts, to keep me sane. The idea behind The Simple Things is to…
Bacon and onion muffins
I mentioned the other day how I really want to make more things for us to eat, less baking and more savoury would be good! The latest challenge from Foodies100 was perfectly timed, to come up with a new recipe for breakfast time using Almond Breeze almond milk. Breakfast is a tricky meal as the…
Beautiful battenberg
A post dedicated to the beautiful battenberg? Yes. I love battenberg, it reminds me of afternoon tea at my grandmother’s house when I was young. Beautiful battenberg I thought I would make one for the Jubilee weekend although I chickened out of adding an iced union flag to the top of it! I used Wright’s…
Gingerbread house finds – vintage gingerbread cutter
Did you know today was World Baking Day? World Baking Day is all about sharing the joy of baking cakes, and what better way to share the love than #caking! I have been very busy baking but I wanted to share this vintage Nutbrown Party Time Cutter Gingerbread Man. I love the original packaging which…
Recipe for lebkuchen
Lebkuchen is a traditional German baked Christmas treat, similar to gingerbread. I’d never tried it before but as the ingredients were so similar to gingerbread I thought I would like it. After a couple of attempts I have perfected my recipe – the spices balance the black treacle perfectly – which makes 20 biscuits. Recipe…
Banana muffins – not for toddlers!
I made a delicious batch of banana muffins yesterday with some help from my toddler. Trying to be frugal with the food shopping I had stupidly let a bunch of bananas go too ripe and couldn’t throw them away. Banana muffins are really simple so here’s my recipe. You will need: 225g unsalted butter…
Gingerbread and butter pudding
Not sure what to do with that lovingly created gingerbread house? Why not make it into a tasty gingerbread and butter pudding? My romantic Valentine-themed gingerbread house needed to make room for my Easter-themed gingerbread house but I didn’t want to throw it away. The gingerbread was quite thin so I thought it might make…