• Family Life - gingerbread

    Festive Mug Hanging Gingerbread kit

    Have you heard of a mug hanger before? It’s a biscuit that actually hangs over the edge of your mug. I bought a gingerbread house mug hanging kit a few years ago but was excited to try a kit I found in Sainsbury’s which included four different shapes. Festive Mug Hanging Gingerbread kit The Sainsbury’s Festive Mug Hanging Gingerbread kit contained gingerbread mix with red and white icing pens and stencils. All you needed to add was butter and Golden Syrup. The templates were printed on the inside of the box and needed to be cut out. First of all…

  • Crafts for adults - gingerbread - Handmade gifts

    Easy Bichon Frise cookies

    Did you know that today is National Dog Day? I didn’t until I received lots of emails about it from people trying to sell me something this morning. We’ve had our Bichon Frise for 7 months now and although having a puppy is a lot of hard work, we wouldn’t be without him. Today seemed the right day to share our Bichon Frise cookies with you. Easy Bichon Frise cookies Now I need to say that these are cookies for humans to eat, I’ll share our recipe for cookies for pups another day! I purchased our Bichon Frise cookie cutter…

  • baking - Family Life

    Traditional Easter biscuits recipe

    We’ve been doing a lot of baking recently. I don’t know about you but we’ve always enjoyed baking, and now we have a lot more time on our hands. We are all excited that we have Easter to celebrate, especially as every day pretty much feels the same right now. Easter is the perfect excuse for dusting off my recipe book to re-discover my traditional recipe for Easter biscuits. This is a simple recipe which I first made at school many years ago. It’s a classic Easter biscuit recipe that provides a delicious Easter treat for the whole family. Ingredients…

  • baking - Family Life - gingerbread

    {Recipe} Chewy Gingerbread molasses cookies

    We’ve been baking a lot lately. The whole family love gingerbread and there’s nothing better than some Saturday morning baking, especially if the cookies last all weekend! I really enjoyed making some chewy gingerbread molasses cookies. These make the perfect cookie to go with a hot drink after a long, bracing walk with the family. This recipe makes 24 cookies Chewy Gingerbread molasses cookies ingredients: 3/4 Cup unsalted sweet cream butter, softened 1 Cup light brown sugar 1 large egg 1/4 Cup molasses 2 Cup flour 1/2 tsp salt 2 tsp ground cinnamon 1 tsp ground cloves 1 tsp ground…

  • baking - gingerbread

    Baking with the Lidl gingerbread dough kit

    I love having a cheeky walk though Lidl when I can. They always seem to have some nice products I can’t find on my normal shop. On a recent visit I picked up a gingerbread dough kit. I love baking but will always cut corners if I can, a packet mix or ready made dough is fine with me. I decided to make some biscuits for the kids to come home to, who doesn’t love the smell of freshly baked gingerbread? Baking with the Lidl gingerbread dough kit The Lidl gingerbread dough kit contained a block of ready made gingerbread…

  • competition - Family Life

    Win a hamper of festive Haribo treats

    Disclosure – Haribo gifted us some of the products used in this post Decorating a gingerbread house is one of our family traditions. Over the years we’ve baked them from scratch and tried kits from every whee we can find them! There’s something lovely about filling the house with the smell of freshly baked gingerbread and the children just adore having free rein to decorate our creations however them like. So I was delighted when Haribo got in touch and gifted us a selection of products to decorate a gingerbread house and share the festive fun. How to decorate a…

  • Family Life - gingerbread

    Finnish Gingerbread Bites – a handmade gift

    It’s the time of year that was just made for baking! You all know that I named my blog after my favourite winter treat and I’ve featured lots of gingerbread recipes since I started blogging. We’ve baked gingerbread people, gingerbread houses, and tried all kinds of sweet treats from gingerbread (house) bread and butter pudding to gingerbread brownies. Today I wanted to share a sweet Finnish gingerbread recipe to make gingerbread bites. These bite-sized mouthfuls are a great after school treat, but can also be whipped up if you are visiting family and friends over the winter holiday. Our Finnish…

  • Crafts for kids - Easter

    How to make Peeps Bunny Cupcakes

    Now the children (and I!) have broken up from school I feel we can get properly excited for Easter. It’s one of my favourite times of year and we just need the weather to warm up a little. We have tons of adventures planned for the next couple of weeks, ending with celebrating Easter with family. We’ve already shared our Easter bunny cupcakes but I couldn’t resist sharing one more recipe, to make these adorable Peeps Bunny cupcakes. Peeps Bunny Cupcakes ingredients: 2 dozen white cupcakes, unfrosted 1 can vanilla frosting blue food colouring 24 Peeps Bunnies Small zippered bag…

  • baking - Crafts for adults - St Patrick's Day crafts

    St Patrick’s Day Brownie Bites

    It’s not long until we celebrate St Patrick’s Day. I’ve been trying to think of small ways to celebrate at home and came up with some delicious St Patrick’s Day Brownie Bites. I’m all in favour of a quick bake so used a shop bought packet mix as the base of these. You can make them in a mini muffin pan or in a brownie tray and cut them into small bites. Don’t forget to check out our other St Patrick’s Day crafts for kids and adults to make. Ingredients to make St Patrick’s Day Brownie Bites: 1 (18.3 ounce) package…