Last time I made something with beer I suggested you may be able to use left over beer to actually make it. Seems that a lot of readers found that quite humorous and let me know they were laughing about me, both on Instagram and in the comments at the end of the post. Thinking about…
Cakes and Decorating
Chocolate Cake with Kit Kat’s and Maltesers
How to make a Chocolate Cake with Kit Kat’s Almost everyone loves a chocolate cake and this is a good chocolate cake. I am always happy to make someone a cake. Usually I look forward to a bit of extra income but sometimes, you have just got to throw that to the wind and add a…
How to decorate a Spiderman Cake
Here’s a colourful and easy way to impress a Spiderman Fan. Follow this How to decorate a Spiderman Cake guide. I don’t remember having any such cake as a child. My Mother was never the frilly apron type. In fact her apron was not required much as her attitude to cooking was… why ? Admittedly…
Rainbow cake and how I excited the neighbours
Sponsored Post A lot of people I know may not be fussed about eating a rainbow, but, as I discovered, for one family this rainbow cake caused extreme excitement. I know it seems strange but often when I have too many cakes, tarts, biscuits and possibly a spare dinner or two, I walk out the…
Lemon Bread Basil Mascarpone and Passionfruit Maple Syrup
Sometimes when the world seems a little sour to me I just cook. When I am cooking I can forget all the other stuff. I am good at cooking, so I have no doubts about myself when I am in the kitchen. There’s just me and the sounds and smells of cooking. There are no…
Spelt and Orange Pancake Cake: Living in a Tent
This Spelt and Orange Pancake cake is just as good for breakfast as it is for dinner. These fluffy spelt pancakes look just like a cake don’t they?. Imagine you didn’t have an oven and you wanted to make a cake for afternoon tea. Ha! yep here it is. Don’t laugh I have done it…
Chocolate Refrigerator Cake
Make this Chocolate Refrigerator cake any old time. It can be made gluten free by replacing the biscuits with gluten free ones. Chocolate Refrigerator Cake This makes a great Easter treat and reminds me of holidays by the beach as a teenager. I was locked in the annex to the caravan. Really? Did he think…
How to make a Brownie Cake Stack
This Brownie Cake Stack makes a fast cake that’s easy to decorate and eat! I was in a hurry a few weeks ago. I needed to make a cake and I only had a couple of hours. This is an easy and very effective way to make an impressive cake. Even though I am going…
Pineapple Doughnut Glaze Cake
Pineapple Doughnut Glaze Cake This vanilla and glazed pineapple cake reminds me of school. I have three sisters and we all went to the same school, the local government school and it was pretty rough. I don’t recall Mother ever visiting the school, but had she done so, the first thing she may have noticed…
Pistachio Lemon Syrup Cake
I first saw this Pistachio Lemon Syrup Cake on a wonderful English blog that I read thelittleloaf.wordpress.com . I have made it innumerable times since then with varying ingredients and it is always lovely. It’s a basic butter and sugar based cake but lets face it anything with Pistachios is bound to be good….
How to make a Peppa Pig Cake
I was asked to make a Peppa Pig cake for my little friend James. When his Mum asked me I had no idea who Peppa Pig was. I had to do some research to get up to speed. Thomas the Tank Engine was on high rotationall at my house when my son was little. So…
Boiled Chocolate Coffee Cake | One Pot
This great boiled chocolate coffee cake is moist and delicious and so easy to make. It just takes one pot I look forward to posting this peek into my kitchen each month. The drawback is that it seems to make the month seem shorter, because it comes around so fast each time. So here are…
Chocolate Cake Halloween Style
Chocolate cake Halloween style. This amazing cake is the perfect. Its an easy stir together recipe that makes a moist chocolatey cake thats great for layering. Halloween has been extra big this year, already. Not only have I been dressed as a Vampire at Not Quite Nigella’s annual Halloween party but this is my second…
Chocolate Halloween Cupcakes
These are more than Chocolate Halloween Cupcakes. They’re witch Cupcakes and they’re both easy AND gluten free. On the wrong side of 40 something clicks in your brain and you just don’t care anymore. It’s a short and slippery slope from here in and I am afraid that I want to have a laugh as…
Red Velvet Panda Cake
Red Velvet Panda Cake 2 weeks ago a bride sent me an email asking if I would make her a wedding cake. She was having a small wedding and had only just decided to have a cake. Well maybe she was talked into having a cake. Regardless of how it came about she asked me…
Warm Strawberry Balsamic Sponge in a frypan
Warm Strawberry Balsamic Sponge in a frypan. This is exceptionally good if you don’t have an oven or even a mixer. Mix, bake and take to the table in the cooking pot. How easy is that? Sometimes recipes choose you and not the other way around. It happened to me today. I arrived home this…