Black Forest Cake
This week saw another birthday celebration in Elizabeth’s Kitchen. I wanted to make something a little extra special for my significant other
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Canada Day Cake
July 1st is Canada Day; a perfect excuse to make a cake don’t you think?
Sugar Rose Lemon Cake
To celebrate the birthday of a friend I thought I would surprise her with a homemade cake.
Chocolate-topped Cupcakes
This month sees the 25th instalment of Dom from Belleau Kitchen’s fantastic Random Recipes food bloggers round up.
Kransekake: a Norwegian Celebration Cake
Kransekake is a traditional Norwegian celebration cake made with ground almonds, egg whites, and icing sugar. It has a light texture and nutty flavour, quite similar to marzipan. Prep Time: 3 days Cooking Time: 15 minutes Difficulty: Moderate Christmas traditions This recipe comes from my children’s Norwegian grandmother, and every few Christmases, I make one for …
The Best Gluten-Free Crème Egg Brownies Recipe
A deliciously moist super chocolatey brownie baked with Creme Egg Easter eggs and drizzled with milk and white chocolates. The perfect Easter treat! The best Easter brownie recipe Are you looking for the ultimate gluten-free Easter bake? Even if you don’t follow a gluten-free diet (I don’t) I’ve got your back covered. These brownies …
Tips For Weekly Meal Planning #GiveUpBinningFood
In collaboration with Love Food Hate Waste. I have a confession to make: I have never meal planned before. Ever. In fact, I’ve previously scoffed at the idea because, well, I like to think I’m a bit too spontaneous for such organization and attention to detail. What if, three days after I’ve planned and shopped …
Treasure Hunting at St. Ninian’s Beach
A whole lot of science and a little bit of cake. The beauty of waking up each morning, for me, is that bit after you dreamily return to reality and that subsequent anticipation of what might happen that day. It’s a new day! What adventures could possibly lay before you in the following 24 hours? A …
The Breadline Challenge – Day 2: 4 Frugal Recipes
Four frugal recipes for the FoodCycle Breadline Challenge: living off less than £2.10 each day for food and drink while raising awareness of UK food poverty. Fundraising total so far: £90
The FoodCycle Breadline Challenge Day One
In this fundraising blog series, I will attempt the FoodCycle Breadline Challenge: living off less than £2.10 each day for food and drink while raising awareness of UK food poverty.
Zombie Brain Chocolates
Eat one… if you dare! I love Halloween. I mean, I seriously love Halloween. Unfortunately, Halloween in Shetland isn’t nearly on the same scale as the Halloween of my rural Canadian childhood, where houses would be decorated up inside and out (with some teenage twerp invariably blowing up our carefully carved jack o’lanterns with fire crackers). …
Vegan Camping Recipes: Middle-Eastern Spiced Chickpeas
In this deliciously fragrant vegetarian campfire dish, a homemade sub-ah b’har seven-spice mix is used to season onions, chickpeas and seasonal greens. Perfect as a side, or even as a light main meal. There is something wonderfully primal about cooking over an open fire. The smell of the wood smoke, getting the fire lit and …
Beef & Broccoli Pasta
When I was growing up one of my favourite dishes was something my called “Goulash”. This Americanised version of the traditional Hungarian dish was simple, involving elbow macaroni, browned beef mince and a tin of tomato soup.
Oreo Button Cookies
This idea has been filed away in my head for several months now. I’ve been wanting to make home made Oreo cookies for some time and I bookmarked a few recipes which looked interesting and had some really positive comments. When my daughter said she’d like a Coraline themed birthday party this year I …
Free 14″ Fabric Coraline Doll Pattern
This FREE printable Coraline doll pattern contains everything you need to make your own 14-inch high fabric Coraline doll complete with blue hair, cheeky grin, dragonfly clip, yellow raincoat and boots. The daughter of a doll maker Among her numerous skills and talents, my mother turned her hand to doll making when I was a …
Green Tea & Shetland Seaweed Ice Cream
“With each mouthful there is a definite taste of Shetland sea air, it is like tasting the wonderful cleanliness of the Shetland coastline as it reaches the lungs. Amazing!!” Jane, taste-tester I have to admit it, yes, this is one of my more unusual creations. I feel the need to say I am not in …
Brandied Cherry Ice Cream
Recently while making a Black Forest Birthday Cake for my significant other I learned a few things.
Apple Muffins with Cinnamon-Walnut Streusel #BakingWithBarleyCup
These easy apple muffins are made with crisp green apples, walnuts & warming cinnamon and have a delicious cinnamon-walnut streusel topping; perfect for brunch. In collaboration with Barleycup. #BakingWithBarleycup #ad Ah, lazy weekend mornings. We look forward to them all week – the notion of sipping a hot drink in your favourite chair next to …
Blueberry & White Chocolate Ice Cream Popsicles
A delicious frozen summer treat made with fresh blueberries and double cream ice cream dipped in white chocolate and finished off with Midnight Magic Sprinkles. You know when you buy a punnet of blueberries, and your fruit-mad children eat nearly all of them as fast as they can, but for some reason, they leave just …
Celebrate #Canada150 with Canadian Butter Tarts!
The perfect Canadian recipe to celebrate Canada Day! Today is Canada’s 150th birthday! To help celebrate, here’s a recipe from my handwritten notebook, a recipe I brought with me when I immigrated from Canada to Scotland in 1999. I have no idea where the original recipe came from, and, if I am to be honest, …