Easy Halloween Graveyard Cake
This super easy Halloween graveyard cake features an effortless egg-free chocolate sponge topped with chocolate frosting and plenty of sweets to resemble a spooky graveyard. In collaboration with the Oakwood Theme Park.
Bûche de Noël – a Christmas/Yule Log Recipe
Baked to perfection with Bacofoil® Non-Stick Baking Paper, this delicious Bûche de Noël, or Christmas log recipe, is a real showstopper. It is a white swiss roll sponge filled with decadent chocolate cream and frosted with a rich dark chocolate icing; a festive recipe in collaboration with Bacofoil®
No-Bake SKIPPY® Peanut Butter Cheesecake #SKIPPYhalloween
With a delicious, rich creamy SKIPPY® Peanut Butter filling, a crunchy double chocolate biscuit base and a milk chocolate ganache topping with a white chocolate spider web, this No-Bake SKIPPY® Peanut Butter Cheesecake will be sure to impress at your Halloween dessert table! In collaboration with SKIPPY® Peanut Butter. Introduction – it’s Halloween! It’s …
Black Forest Gateau
This super easy black forest gateau recipe takes no time at all to whip up. It uses store-cupboard ingredients and with the new Breville HeatSoft™ hand mixer, you don’t have to wait for the butter to soften before baking the cakes. In collaboration with Breville. Black Forest Gateau – without fresh cherries… … because at …
Nanaimo Bars: Canada’s Favourite Confection
Canada’s favourite confection: a nutty chocolate base layered with sweet buttercream and topped with dark chocolate. Perfect for potlucks or afternoon tea. Blog post originally published in October 2012 and republished, with better photos and a printable recipe in 2018. Nanaimo bars were one of my favourite squares when I lived in Canada but …
Chocolate Hazelnut Stuffed Chocolate Chip Cookies
Crunchy on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside with a delicious hazelnut chocolate filling – these chocolate chip cookies are super easy to make and will be sure to impress children and adults alike! This recipe was inspired by the remains of a jar of chocolate hazelnut spread lurking in the back …
Num Noms-Inspired Easter Chocolate Bark
A recipe & giveaway celebrating the release of Num Noms Series 5! Happy Easter weekend everyone! This week, in the lead up to the holidays, my children have been getting creative in the kitchen, celebrating the release of Num Noms Series 5! Num Noms, for those of you not in the know, are these adorable …
No Bake Chocolate Nut Tarts with Icelandic Skyr
In collaboration with Ísey Skyr, the original Icelandic Skyr. If you’re looking for a quick and easy effortless dessert that has just the right amount of buttery chocolatey crunch and a light and fluffy filling, look no more – introducing my no-bake chocolate nut tarts with Icelandic skyr recipe! I’ve only ever spent five hours in Iceland, …
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 …
Chocolate & Peanut Butter Flavour Oreo Freakshake
An indulgent Oreo freakshake recipe in collaboration with Oreo. All work and no play makes Elizabeth rather grumpy. I try my best to eat a healthy diet and to keep active, but do you know what? Sometimes, a little indulgent treat just has to be done. The 80:20 rule, right? 80% of the time I …
Chocolate & Coffee Cupcakes with Coffee Swirl Frosting
In collaboration with a2 Milk™ & Percol Coffee. I have to confess, I am a bit of a coffee addict. I love my morning cuppa(s), plus one more to help keep me going around mid-afternoon. I love coffee flavoured things too, cakes, sweets, cupcakes, you name it. The only thing better than coffee is a …
Dark Chocolate Chunk Banana Courgette Bread
Plus 25 other recipes to use up a glut of courgettes! It’s that time of year again when 3 or four courgettes appear in my veg box every week. I don’t grow my own as our coastal garden is far too exposed to the moods of the North Sea, but my veg box providers do …
Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie for Two
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 …
Coconut Mint Christmas Chocolates + Giveaway
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 …
Chocolate Fudge Masquerade Party Cupcakes
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 …
Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Halloween Cake
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. A recipe in collaboration with SKIPPY® Peanut Butter. I confess that when it comes to Halloween I really am still a child at heart. I grew up …
Chocolate & Chilli Cupcakes
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 …
Classic Fruit & Nut Chocolate Fudge
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 …
Chocolate & Vanilla Cupcakes
In collaboration with the RNLI – the charity that saves lives at sea. This is my husband’s most favourite cupcake recipe. They are super simple to make and never last very long in our house. I made them for my husband as a, um, well, “I’m sorry” for actually swooning over a real life bonafide …
A Slightly More Healthy Easter Cupcake Recipe
A somewhat more healthy chocolate Easter treat made with raw cacao. Wednesdays are pudding nights in our house. This (in theory) stops the kids from asking for sweet things after every meal through the rest of the week. In theory. It doesn’t actually work like this, but I do try. Some of you might have …