This year I’m making birthday cakes for my close friends as they, like me, reached a ‘special’ age and I wanted to share this moment with each of them. These cakes are all made unique to each person’s taste, they don’t know what I’m making for them but they know there will be a…
Category: Sweet bakes
Snicker style cake bars
Snickers are just too amazing, I have this real love for them, not only me my whole family do as well…they have everything nuts, caramel, nougat and chocolate so what’s not to love? when I see any recipes relating to snickers I get so excited I want to try them all!!! but I…
Greek New Year’s Cake
No No No it’s not New Years it’s February. My Dad seen this recipe in a book and he wanted to have it baked on his birthday. According to the history behind the cake called Vasilopita traditionally, it’s made with a single coin baked into it and legend has it the person who…
Red red wineeee cupcakes
These decadent, moist, cupcakes were made for my dads birthday, he is a very big fan of red wine and when I saw this recipe (although he’s not a fan of cupcakes) I thought it would be an amazing cake to make for his birthday. Well it turned out he was a fan,…
No bake easy chocolate, pistachio and orange tart
This tart is so easy to make and doesn’t have any eggs in. It is quite rich tasting but adding pistachio and orange cuts out the richness slightly and gives it another element. You can also add cocoa powder to the base of the tart if you wanted it to be be chocolately….
Leftover soft Mincemeat cookies
Christmas is all over and it’s now new year, I can’t believe how quickly the year went by. I did however make these cookies last year but only posting them up now. This may come in use for people who are trying to use up any jars they brought or if you brought…
Nice and spiced German Lebkuchen cookies
If you know me you know how much I love spice, not only the savoury spice but the sweet spice too. For those of you who don’t like spice or ginger these biscuits are not for you, however you can change the spice accordingly. I also really love Lebkuchen as they are spiced biscuits. They…
O myyyyyy peanut butter and rolo cookies
When I saw a picture of these cookies I was drooling, they looked amazing (the original photos are much better then mine lol) and sounded even more amazing as I’m a huge fan of peanut butter I was definitely won over and had to give them a go. The best thing about these…
Chocolate, cherry and almond scones
Another recipe made without eggs wohoo sorry I posted this one a bit late and after shravan. We had some cherries left over so decided to make these scones and also the idea of chunky chocolate and almonds definately got me drooling. I think for me I would rather use chocolate chunks instead…
