There is nothing quite so exciting as having a whole sweetie shop delivered to your door, even as an adult. That is exactly what happened to lucky me when I took delivery of a wicker hamper full of fabulous sweeties from the All Occasion Sweet Shop. What an amazing collection of retro sweets it contained, there …
January 2013
Devil’s Food Cake – Nigella Recipe
Devil’s Food Cake – wickedly fabulous Cake time – more precisely it is chocolate cake which according to Nigella makes this Devil’s Food Cake. So what better way to celebrate a birthday than with a chocolate cake. You may recall that last year I made my aunt her character cake for her birthday, this year …
Planting Garlic
At the beginning of December I spotted a tweet from Woollygreen about a competition they were running to win some Garlic seeds. Well lucky for me I won, and just before Christmas the seeds arrived. I have been patiently waiting for some dry weather so I can get it planted. We have had such mild weather of late and …
Recipe Carrot and Sultana Mini Loaves
Carrot and Sultana Mini Loaves I always think baking with any vegetable to be healthy, well for me at least. So my Carrot and Sultana mini loaves are made using carrots, sultanas and low fat cream cheese, I’ve done my best to cut back on the extra calories. Normally when baking Carrot Cake I would use …