Viennese fingers

22 May

Everybody loves a little viennese finger with a cup of tea and I decided to make some as they reminded me of the days when I worked at the marks and spencers foodhall and I would see packs of these buttery delights go through my till every day.

 

I have never made them in my life so I thought I would give them a go and see what happened……the results were to die for!!! Continue reading →

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Peanut butter and chocolate chip muffins

14 May

I decided to use up the last of my pindakaas…….you are going to say to me, what’s that!?! It’s amazing dutch peanut butter and it’s probably my favourite type.Pindakaas  Continue reading →

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Frozen yoghurt

6 May

Looking for a pudding that was a little healthier than the norm, I decided to make some frozen yoghurt. All I can say is WOW! So easy, here is the recipe!!!! You would be daft not to make it. Continue reading →

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Chocolate and peanut butter chip brownies

25 Apr

My blog has been neglected recently so I thought I would write up this post. Having not baked in over a month I was having severe withdrawal symptoms so I was advised to make something chocolatey and gooey and I am glad I did. Continue reading →

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Super easy flapjacks

29 Feb
Flapjacks

Flapjacks

I had plenty of oats in the house and thought about how I could use them up. Oatcakes were one option but a bit too time consuming. Instead I thought I would try flapjacks, the ideal traybake. These remind me of school fairs, school packed lunchboxes and generally being a youngster. Yes I’m not as young anymore, but there’s nothing wrong with reliving our youth, is there?! Continue reading →

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Courgette and seed muffins

5 Feb

Well I’ve been a little quiet on the blog front lately, but I’ve been busy preparing cupcake classes here in Barcelona, translating recipes etc. However, I am now glad to say that I found the time this week to make some yummy healthy courgette and seed muffins. These are so easy to make it’s unreal, but ever so tasty!!!!! I got this recipe from the channel 4 website and it is by Enric Lanlard, another one of my baking gurus!!!! I hope you enjoy the sweet and salty combination!!!!

 

Ingredients

  • 225g wholemeal flour
  • 1½ tsp baking powder
  • 2 tsp ground cinnamon
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 200ml milk
  • 2 eggs
  • 4 tbsp vegetable oil
  • 4 tbsp clear honey
  • 150g courgette, trimmed and coarsely grated
  • 75g mixed seeds such as pumkin, sesame, and sunflower
  • 25g oats

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 180°C/gas mark 4 and line a muffin tray with paper liners.
  2. Combine the flour, baking powder, cinnamon and salt in a large bowl. In a seperate bowl mix together the milk, eggs, vegetable oil, honey and grated courgette. Add the liquid ingredients to the dry ingredients and mix – be careful not to overmix, you just need to make sure everything is incorporated.
  3. Spoon the mixture into the cases, leaving a little space for the muffins to rise, and cover with the mixed seeds and oats. Bake for 25 minutes or until a skewer comes out clean.
  4. Cool for 5 minutes in the tray then turn out onto a wire rack to cool completely.

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Gingerbread house

14 Jan

Whilst I was in the UK last weekend I had the opportunity to learn how to make a gingerbread house. I wasn’t going to say no to such an opportunity to make a wonderful sweet house made out of gingerbread biscuits. The lovely Angie made the gingerbread parts so I didn’t have to do them myself. The reason they normally do this is so that they have a good day or two to dry out. If you made the biscuit parts on the day of making the house it would probably fall apart. Continue reading →

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