This simple recipe for Chocolate Cakes, or Fairy Cakes as I like to refer to them, for me is another baking essential. Once you have mastered this recipe you can use this as a base to add additional ingredients such as glace cherries or chocolate drops, or pimp your cake up with fancy decoration. Chocolate Fairy …
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Heart Shaped Stained Glass Biscuit Recipe
A home baked Valentine’s Day biscuit to share with family, friends or a loved one. This heart shaped biscuit recipe is easy to make and children will love adding a boiled sweet and seeing its transformation into a stained glass window. This recipe made a lovely biscuit dough that was soft yet firm and rolled out easy …
Peanut Butter and Banana Cookies Vegan Recipe
Vegan Peanut Butter and Banana Cookies now that is a recipe I thought I would never bake, but I am up for a challenge. So when my friend Linda who owns The Ferns, a Vegetarian Bed and Breakfast in Shropshire, was coming by for a cuppa and a catch up I promised I would bake some Vegan biscuits. We …
Chewy Toffee and Salted Cashew Nut Cookies – No Bake Recipe
No Bake Recipe, Chewy Toffee and Cashew Nut Cookies – I baked these having spotted the recipe as part of a book launch promotion by Quercus books for No Bake Baking book, where you will also find the source of the recipe. There are just four ingredients to make these no bake biscuits, so very simple …
Vanilla Macaroons Recipe and Using a Macaroon Mat
Macaroons are one of my sisters favourite sweet treats to eat, though I have never been tempted with them, not a huge fan of almonds. My sister kindly lent me her Marks and Spencers Delicious Macaroons book along with a special macaroon mat, which proved invaluable. Though a little time consuming they were reasonably easy to make. I …
Left over chocolate for a Valentines treat
Valentine chocolate hearts My niece received an ample supply of chocolate at Christmas, particularly white chocolate which she does not like. As her aunt I felt it my duty to help relieve her excess chocolate problem. My intention was to practice with my chocolate moulds and also make some Valentine chocolate treats, though I confess …