Fruit Drop Travel Sweets
Making your own travel sweets is remarkably easy, once you get the hang of it. Colour and flavour these treats with your favourite flavourings, or just leave them plain. Post sponsored by Volkswagen.
Making your own travel sweets is remarkably easy, once you get the hang of it. Colour and flavour these treats with your favourite flavourings, or just leave them plain. Post sponsored by Volkswagen.
Ready in under 20 minutes this chocolate chip skillet cookie recipe hits the spot when you get that craving for warm, homemade chocolate chip cookies, but you don’t want a whole batch. This is my contribution to the online recipe bank for Valentine’s Day this year. A chocolate chip skillet cookie recipe, ready in under …
This traditional Cape Breton Island fruit scone recipe tastes delicious warm with butter and honey or jam. A perfect afternoon ‘down east’ tea time treat. Prep Time: 10 minutes Cooking Time: 36 hours Difficulty: Easy A childhood in Canada I am the daughter of an army brat. Although I was born on a military base …
Post sponsored by Volkswagen. I am an adventurer at heart, I truly am. As a child I could always be found in the forests of the Canadian wilderness, exploring every tree nook and cranny, always wondering what was on the other side of the next hill. That childhood curiosity hasn’t left me and now I enjoy …
In collaboration with Albert Bartlett Potatoes & Üutensil. So who else put up their Christmas tree this weekend? We usually don’t put up our tree until the 12th of December, but this year my best friend surprised us and delivered a tree to us on Saturday afternoon. She’d picked up a five foot real Christmas …
In collaboration with We Bake, the community that rewards you for baking. When it comes to birthday parties it has been known for me, on occasion, to go completely over the top. I absolutely love baking birthday cakes and will spend days carefully crafting sugar paste decorations for my own children’s celebration cakes. Regular readers …
A deliciously spiced apple cake recipe slightly adapted from a recipe found in Signe Johansen’s Scandinavian cookery book Scandilicious. Prep Time: 15 minutes Cooking Time: 35 minutes Difficulty: Easy Dreaming of apple cake I dreamt about apple cake last night. True story. This is likely because I had set aside today, Sunday, to deal with …
In collaboration with Jamie Oliver Bakeware. It’s that time of year again when segments of gorgeous, organic, vibrant orange sugar pumpkins start arriving in my veg box. My most favourite thing to make with these pumpkins is my adaptation of my grandmother’s pumpkin loaf recipe or roasted pumpkin soup with fried sage and white truffle oil, but …
Three layers of peanut butter and chocolate flavoured cake swirled together sandwiched with peanut butter frosting and topped with a milk chocolate ganache and a giant Halloween spider. I confess that when it comes to Halloween I really am still a child at heart. I grew up in rural Eastern Canada where Halloween, and all …
One batch, twelve flavours, in collaboration with Crock Pot. I do love a good cupcake, me. What’s better than a good cupcake? A selection of good cupcakes! Who has the time though (or the waistline) so make six or twelve dozen cupcakes to get a variety of flavours to serve at an afternoon tea party. …
You’ll never need another banana bread recipe after trying this one! Every family has their own favourite banana bread recipe, right? This one is ours.
Add a bit of spice to your life with these indulgent cupcakes; the perfect quick weekend bake! Bizarrely enough, the chocolate and chilli combination is a favourite with my children, especially my younger children who, if a piece of freshly ground cracked black pepper should dare to appear in their dinner lament, with great theatrical …
In collaboration with Redmond Multicookers. Nothing beats a bowl of hot creamy custard on a cold Autumn’s day when the chill is in the air and you can smell the winter coming. Except, perhaps, if it’s hot creamy custard that you’ve made yourself, and it’s served over a slice of still-warm pineapple upside down cake! …
Creative cake-baking just for the fun of it on a dark, dreary, rainy Autumn day. I made a cake! I made a cake and I’m really rather chuffed at how well it turned out. You see, I’m currently going through an ’empty the store-cupboards’ phase in preparation for stocking up for winter. The fact is …
In collaboration with Whiskas Cat Food. I am of the firm belief that a home isn’t a home unless a cat is part of it. There has always been a cat in our family for as long as I can remember. A year ago a new addition to our family was born – Echo, the …
Courgettes are reproducing at pace in my vegetable crisper. Seriously. Every year the same thing happens. You see, I get this fantastic locally grown weekly organic box filled with all sorts of wonderful goodies – kohlrabi, fresh peas, tomatoes, spicy Chinese greens (my favourite!), last week an Indian Kheera cucumber…. and courgettes, among many other …
These generous-sized banana blueberry streusel muffins (we all like a big breakfast muffin, right?) are incredibly soft and moist, with little bursts of blueberry throughout. The cinnamon-scented streusel topping adds a lovely crunch texture and appetite-stimulating aroma to the muffin. It’s a delicious way to use those over-ripe bananas; perfect for breakfast with a coffee! …
My house looks like a Mountain Warehouse has exploded inside of it. It’s an organized chaos, I swear. There is camping and cycling gear on nearly every surface as I try and figure out what to pack for my epic cycling trip next week. As I am pottering about the house I’ll glance upon a …
I made fudge! Proper fudge! This is not such a grand achievement, I know, but wait until you hear why this is such a big thing for me. I was 12 the last time I made fudge. Proper fudge, I mean, you know, fudge that has never seen a tin of condensed milk (I’ve made …
A recipe, review & giveaway in collaboration with Ball Preserves. I made jam!!! For the first time in my adult life I have successfully managed to make jam! Ok, if I’m going to be completely honest here, I successfully put all the ingredients into my new swish Ball® FreshTech Automatic Jam & Jelly Maker, pressed the button …