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All Manner of Sweet Things

Scottish All Butter Shortbread Fingers

Traditional All-Butter Scottish Shortbread Cookies

December 8, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

A Christmas classic, these traditional all-butter Scottish shortbread cookies are simple to make and taste delicious with a hot chocolate or a warming dram of whisky! In collaboration with Titan Travel’s 12 Days of Blogmas Campaign. Scottish shortbread has to be, in my humble opinion, one of the best foodie things about Christmas in Scotland.  …

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Coconut Lime and Mint Ladoo East by West Cookery Book

Coconut, Lime & Mint Ladoo

November 22, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

A recipe from the cookery book East by West by Jasmine Hemsley. Cookbooks are such a wonderful creation, aren’t they? I mean, I know the internet is filled with creative recipe ideas and you simply need to search for a few ingredients to come up with recipes to make, but there’s something very satisfying with …

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Chocolate Peanut Butter Flavour Oreo Freakshake

Chocolate & Peanut Butter Flavour Oreo Freakshake

November 14, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

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 …

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Chocolate and Coffee Cupcakes with Swirl Frosting

Chocolate & Coffee Cupcakes with Coffee Swirl Frosting

October 31, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

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 …

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Swede Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

Spiced Swede (Rutabaga) Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

October 29, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

A delicious, spiced cake made with the humble swede (rutabaga). Did you know that the humble swede (aka. rutabaga, neep or Swedish turnip) can make a rather excellent flavoured cake? Think carrot cake, but with a more subtle vegetable flavour. Warming spices like ginger and nutmeg make it for the perfect Autumn bake, excellent with an …

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Macadamia, Mango & White Chocolate Cookies

October 20, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

A recipe & review in collaboration with Nuts Pick. There’s something very therapeutic about baking cookies. They’re so easy to make and one can contentedly potter about the kitchen while each batch bakes, filling the house with the delicious aroma of freshly baked cookies. We’ve got our regular family favourites: oatmeal raisin, chocolate chip and my …

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No Churn Apple Cinnamon Swirl Ice Cream with Granola Clusters

No Churn Apple Cinnamon Swirl Ice Cream with Honey Almond Granola Clusters

September 29, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

In collaboration with Nutri-Brex 5 Ways Gluten-Free Granola. Happy Friday everyone! I hope you’re all having a fantastic day and have some rather grand adventures planned for the weekend. Me, I have my tank built conditioning camp on a Saturday morning, so Friday is my day where I allow myself a little indulgent treat, after all, …

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Gluten Free Granola Bars with Hazelnut, Coconut & Quinoa

September 28, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

In collaboration with Nutri-Brex 5 Ways Gluten-Free Granola. Sometimes the mornings can be just a little too hectic. The whole packed lunches, getting kids up and ready for school (and now, in the case of my eldest, work), trying to get myself ready for a day of productivity; it can all get a bit manic sometimes. …

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Torta Sbrisolona - Italian Almond Cake

Torta Sbrisolona – an Italian Almond Cake Recipe

September 10, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

In collaboration with the Garda Trentino S.p.A. Tourism Board. I watched the landscape change while on the train from Milan to Lake Garda a few months ago, during my first ever visit to the Italian mainland. I found the apartment buildings on the outskirts of Milan hugely fascinating, their tall, earthy hued walls dotted with …

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Dark Chocolate Chunk Banana Zucchini/Courgette Bread

Dark Chocolate Chunk Banana Courgette Bread

September 1, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

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 …

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Pea and Vanilla Cake with Lemon Icing by Kate Hackworthy

Pea and Vanilla Cake with Lemon Icing

August 11, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

An original recipe from Kate Hackworthy’s debut cookbook Veggie Desserts + Cake. Vegetable desserts can be so much more than just carrot cake, as food-writer Kate Hackworthy of award-winning Veggie Desserts shows us with her debut cookbook Veggie Desserts + Cakes. Published by Pavilion Books on the 3rd of August 2017 this stunning manuscript pushes …

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Canadian Butter Tarts

Celebrate #Canada150 with Canadian Butter Tarts!

July 1, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

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, …

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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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Volkswagen Logo Sugar Cookies - a step by step tutorial

Volkswagen Logo Sugar Cookies

June 9, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

Post sponsored by Volkswagen. I have fallen in love with the art of decorating sugar cookies! It is remarkably easy to mix ready made Royal icing powder with water and a little bit of food colouring to decorate the tops of your favourite sugar cookie recipe, and, I have learned recently, the sky is the limit …

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Piña Colada Cupcakes

Piña Colada Cupcakes

June 5, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

Bring a taste of the Caribbean to your dessert table with this cocktail-inspired cupcake recipe! It’s funny how recipe inspiration can strike in the most random places. I fancied baking something sweet for my family the other day when I spied half a fresh pineapple desperately needing using up in the fridge and remembered that …

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Choux Pastry Swans

Chocolate Eclairs, Choux Pastry Swans and Crème Pâtissière: Lessons from a French Cookery Class

May 31, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

When I was around the age of 12 I first opened a cookery book and discovered the wonderful world of cooking. I am by no means professionally trained; bar a few summers working as an assistant cook at a children’s camp in Canada what I know comes from years of trial and error. I’ve only …

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Homemade Muesli Flapjacks

Homemade Muesli Flapjacks #GiveUpBinningFood

April 1, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

The perfect muesli flapjack recipe to fuel your outdoor (or indoor!) adventures. It’s not too sweet, not too buttery and holds together perfectly – just right! A recipe in collaboration with Love Food Hate Waste. I wanted to like bircher muesli. I really did. I tried my best, but do you know what? No matter …

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Mini Lemon Drizzle Pound Cakes

March 20, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

In collaboration with We Bake, the community that rewards you for baking.  When I was a little girl growing up in rural Canada we had a small village shop that sold just about anything you could ever need. There was a meat counter where you watch them cut thick slices of bologna for your dinner …

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Fruit Drop Travel Sweets

Fruit Drop Travel Sweets

February 17, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

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.

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Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie for Two

Chocolate Chip Skillet Cookie for Two

February 13, 2017 by Elizabeth Atia

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 …

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