These delicious little cakes made their first appearance at our 2nd birthday meeting – and seemed to be very popular so thought we had better share the recipe! Impressive looking and easy to make! For the cakes 115g butter or margarine 100g caster sugar 2 eggs 115g self raising flour 3 tablespoons cocoa powder 3 [...]
Lemon Meringue Cupcakes

These look very impressive and are definitely ‘grown-up’ cupcakes! Fresh and tangy they are a perfect summer cake or served as a pudding. Ingredients 115g butter 100g caster sugar 2 eggs 115g self raising flour Grated zest and juice of a lemon 3 tablespoons of lemon curd To decorate 150g caster sugar 2 egg whites [...]
Gingerbread Biscuits

These are biscuits which I regularly make with my children. I have tried many different biscuit recipes but these are our favourite as they make tasty biscuits that the children will actually eat – not just lick the icing off! Ingredients 175g Self Raising flour ½ tsp bicarbonate soda ½ tsp ground cinnamon 2 tsp [...]
Strawberry Cheesecake Cupcake
Cooking is always a fail safe activity to keep the children busy in the holidays. These cupcakes are a delicious treat and perfect for the summer, making good use of fruit that is in season, and which you may even have growing in your own garden. They look great and taste even better! Ingredients 115g [...]
Raspberry & White Chocolate Brownies

My discovery of this yummy recipe is all thanks to writer and Daddy Blogger Tim over at Bringing Up Charlie. I made these Brownies for our last Business Drop-In and, unusually, politeness/January diets went out the window and everyone came back for seconds. Some people might find white chocolate a little sweet and sickly but [...]




