The beautiful, funny & unsightly truths about raising 3 year old twins & an 8 year old singleton… with one on the way!
This week's Great British Bake Off was bread week. Hmm. Yes. I have never made any form of bread in my life. On the TV show, they made Grissini (breadsticks), English Muffins and a showstopper loaf of bread. A showstopper would be a bit too ambitious for me, seeing as I don't know the first thing about making […]
To coincide with the Great British Bake Off, two bloggers, Jenny of Mummy Mishaps and Helen of The Crazy Kitchen have come up with The Great Bloggers Bake off! Week one on GBBO was a Victoria sandwich, an angel food cake and a chocolate show stopper. Angel cake, I’ve never heard of and at the same time, […]
This post isn’t a recipe as such, but I am still linking it up to #CookitBlogit, hosted this week by The Diary of a Frugal Family, as there was baking involved! I’m not afraid to admit, we are having a tough time financially at the moment. The delay on my statutory sick pay doesn’t help, […]
This is my own recipe for a very light and creamy mochaccino cheesecake, using as many FAIRTRADE ingredients as I could find! I combined several of my favourite cheesecake recipes to come up with it and it’s mighty delicious. You can taste the chocolate and the coffee but its mild enough that the 5 year old loves it too! […]
Pina Colada is one of my fave cocktails (after Long Island Iced Tea) and seeing as I LOVE CAKE, I thought I’d try to combine the two. You’ll need: 200g Unsalted butter 150g Caster Sugar 185g Self Raising Flour 1 tbsp Baking Powder 2 Eggs 160ml Rum or coconut rum 250g Icing Sugar 250g Fresh […]