Lemon cream loveheart biscuits – perfect for Mothers’ Day
My lovely friend, Sarah, who has a blog called My Mummy Sings, not only has the voice of an angel, but impressive emergency baking skillz too. I loved her post about making her hubby some last-minute...
View ArticleWeekend baking: easy, step by step chocolate chip peanut cookies
Living with two teenage bottomless pits, I tend to do a lot of baking. I’m not for a minute trying to make out it’s some kind of chore – there’s nothing I like better than pottering about in a sunny...
View ArticleTrick or treat! Candy corn cookies for Halloween
As a nation, we’ve never really embraced candy corn have we? I love the look (and taste) of them, and when I was in America I tracked down these mixed fruit ones (probably terribly untraditional) and...
View ArticleChristmas cookies for mince pie haters
Now Christmas is in full swing, I seem to be baking mince pies nearly every day. I always feel a bit sorry for Charlie, though, who doesn’t like mince pies and so tends to head for the biscuit tin...
View ArticleButterkist Salted Caramel Popcorn cookies
When Butterkist challenged me to come up with my own Butterkist creation, my first thought was popcorn vodka, but then the boys were begging for cookies so I had to change my mind (darn). The new...
View ArticleChocolate oatbran flapjack cookies
So as you read this, we’re on our family cruise around the Med on Celebrity Eclipse and are currently steaming towards Portugal (squee!). During the run up, as you know, I was eating really, really...
View ArticleMaple leaf pumpkin spice biscuits
Happy Saturday! Phew, we made it. Time to kick back, chill out, enjoy your home and family and carve a pumpkin or two. I’m up early this morning and it’s lovely outside: misty and cool, with dew...
View ArticleSpiced chocolate skeleton gingerbread men – Halloween baking with John Lewis
You know that I’m a complete Halloween addict. I love all the little bits and bobs that come out around this time of year, and yesterday I was nosing around John Lewis, intending to buy a few baking...
View ArticleHealthier oat and cranberry cookies
When I’m cooking for the family, my intention is always to nourish (I know, I’m just so new age). I want to choose foods that will fill our bodies full of good things, so that kind of excludes all the...
View ArticleSalted peanut cookies
You know when you’re selling your house and you’re supposed to do lovely things like bake bread and have fresh flowers about? Well, I decided to bake cookies and now have become completely addicted to...
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