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Blueberry Muesli Muffins Recipe image

Blueberry Muesli Muffins

March 23, 2020 by Elizabeth Atia

  These blueberry muesli muffins are super simple to make, and they’re a great way to use up that box of old muesli hiding in the back of your cupboard. It’s a perfect recipe for lazy Sunday morning baking. Imposter syndrome There has been a discernible shift, of late, and I think now is as …

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In this easy recipe, lemon zest, lemon extract and lavender flowers are combined to make a delicious, fluffy, moist, perfectly baked doughnut with a lavender icing sugar glaze. #doughnuts #bakeddoughnuts #lavender #lemondoughnut #lemondonut #bakeddonut

Lemon and Lavender Baked Doughnuts

May 18, 2019 by Elizabeth Atia

Baked doughnuts are super simple to make with a Tala Performance non-stick mini ring doughnut muffin pan. In this yeast-free recipe, lemon zest, lemon extract and lavender flowers are combined to make delicious, fluffy, moist, perfectly baked doughnuts with a fragrant lavender icing sugar glaze. This post is in collaboration with Tala.

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The Best Homemade Oatmeal Raisin Cookies Recipe

The Very Best Homemade Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

August 4, 2018 by Elizabeth Atia

These crispy on the outside, soft and chewy on the inside oatmeal raisin cookies are reminiscent of childhood. Delicately spiced with cinnamon, they get even better the next day. These cookies are one of my absolute favourite cookie recipes. The recipe is slightly adapted (and UK-ified) from one that I used to make in my …

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Strawberry Shortcake with Balsamic & Black Pepper Syrup

Strawberry Shortcakes with Balsamic & Black Pepper Syrup

June 18, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

Fresh strawberries and balsamic vinegar are a match made in heaven. These quick and easy strawberry shortcakes take no time to whip up and they taste utterly amazing! Perfect for a summer picnic! “Mum, do you know what I really, really want?” our youngest son (aged 8 and 1/4) asked recently. “What’s that?” I enquired. …

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Cape Breton Fruit Scones - serve warm with butter and honey/jam

Cape Breton Fruit Scones

February 4, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

A traditional Cape Breton recipe. Serve warm with butter and honey/jam. I am the daughter of an army brat. Although I was born on a military base on the west coast of Canada, my family moved back to Cape Breton Island, on the east coast of Canada, when I was three. My family history has …

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Mini Pumpkin Spice Muffins with a Maple Syrup Drizzle

Mini Pumpkin Spice Muffins with a Maple Syrup Drizzle

October 19, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

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 …

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A Selection of Cupcakes for Afternoon Tea

A Selection of Cupcakes for Afternoon Tea

September 30, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

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. …

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Classic Banana Bread Recipe

Elizabeth’s Classic Banana Bread Recipe

September 29, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

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.

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Courgette & Poppy Seed Muffins

Courgette & Poppy Seed Muffins

August 24, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

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 …

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Banana Blueberry Streusel Muffins

Banana Blueberry Streusel Muffins

July 27, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

The wandering traveller has returned home, for the foreseeable future – or at least until the wanderlust strikes again! I’m home now from a week’s camping in Norway (It was heaven! A blog post will follow soon!) which followed our family trip to Brussels that was close on the heels of my epic two week …

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Morning Glory Muffins

Morning Glory Muffins

May 7, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

A cinnamon scented breakfast muffin recipe packed full of carrots, apples and dates. It’s become a bit of a yearly tradition now, with my birthday being at the start of December, for my Canadian grandmother to send me a cookery book and a pair of earrings as a combined birthday Christmas gift. With overseas post …

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Lavender and Lemon Bundt Cake

Lavender & Lemon Bundt Cake + Bake Box Review & Giveaway RRP £80

April 10, 2016 by Elizabeth Atia

In collaboration with Bake Box. Silicone baking moulds have to be one of the best inventions to hit the baking world, ever. Yet they scare me. Especially elaborate silicone bundt moulds with all sorts of little nooks and crannies for cake to get stuck into, entirely ruining the look of a bake. I confess that …

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Bramley Apple Crumble

Bramley Apple Crumble

November 21, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

I miss trees. Where I grew up in rural Cape Breton, on the east coast of Canada, we had more trees than you could imagine. Most of my childhood was spent in them, falling out of them, getting lost in them, and on many an occasion, eating from them. There were so many wild apple …

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Tunisian Orange Cake

Tunisian Orange Cake

July 25, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

A light and fluffy gluten free orange and almond cake soaked in citrus syrup. I had a proper day off yesterday. I woke early with no imminent deadlines to worry about, it wasn’t raining, and I could fill my day with what I pleased. It was bliss!

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Super Mario Birthday Cake

The Ultimate Super Mario Birthday Party!

March 9, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

In collaboration with Dr. Oetker Baking. I absolutely love organizing and throwing birthday parties for my children. It’s one of those things I can get completely immersed in what with all the planning and creativity. I also might be overcompensating for the fact I’ve never had a birthday party of my own! They don’t get …

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Blueberry Weetabix Muffin Recipe #blueberrymuffin #weetabix #breakfast

Easy Blueberry Weetabix Muffins

February 8, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

This half batch of deliciously spiced blueberry muffins is made with leftover Weetabix and other store-cupboard ingredients; perfect for a weekend brunch or after school snack.  The pre-recipe blurb no one actually reads I really don’t like Weetabix* I’m all for the low sugar, high fibre thing they’re going for, but I can not abide …

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Double chocolate chunk oatmeal cookies

Double Chocolate Chunk Oatmeal Cookies

January 22, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia

Because sometimes chocolate chunk cookies are required. I’ve made cookies! Regular readers will be aware that it’s been ages since I’ve posted anything even remotely sweet and indulgent like a cookie or cake recipe. That’s because I’ve not been making such treats, or anything even hinting at calorific as I attempt to lose the extra …

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Spiced Apple Muffins

Spiced Apple Muffins & a Harvey Nichols Hamper Review

November 3, 2014 by Elizabeth Atia

For a leisurely late morning breakfast. Nothing beats a leisurely late morning breakfast when you’ve got all the time in the world to enjoy it. Good coffee, home bakes, quality preserves and a cheeky glass of… Prosecco?! This is what my husband and I indulged in the other day.

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cinnamon rolls

Rum & Raisin Cinnamon Rolls

September 19, 2014 by Elizabeth Atia

because even raisins love a generous nip of dark rum When I first started delving into the wonderful world of baking, around the age of 12, one of the first recipes I ever made was a basic cinnamon roll. It had a baking powder-raised scone base topped with plenty of butter, cinnamon sugar and raisins. …

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