In honour of The Great British Bake Off tonight, I thought I’d post my own bake – these delicious lemon drizzle cupcakes. I haven’t baked in so long (literally a year!), and I used to be a keen baker. I’m glad GBBO has got me inspired again, and I can’t believe I’ve never thought of…
Wow I haven’t posted anything creative in quite a while, and I haven’t posted a recipe since way back earlier in the year. I’ve been lacking motivation with my blog recently. Life has taken over. We have had so much to plan, apply and pay for when it comes to our travels that every day…
Ingredients (makes 12): 3oz sugar 3oz butter 3 small eggs 2oz flour 1oz cocoa powder 6oz icing sugar 3oz butter Mini marshmallows to garnish Cocoa powder to garnish Candy canes to garnish Method: Preheat the oven to 160 degrees. In a large mixing bowl cream together the butter and sugar. Add the eggs and flour,…
Recipe (makes 12): 4oz butter 3oz self raising flour 1oz cocoa powder 2 eggs 4oz caster sugar Cream cheese frosting: 150g cream cheese 300g icing sugar Method: Begin by preheating your oven to 160 degrees. Cream together the butter and caster sugar. Gently sift in the flour a little at a time and stir in…
Ingredients: 2 cups self raising flour 1 cup caster sugar 1/2 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/3 cup vegetable oil 2 eggs 2/3 cup Greek yogurt 2 cups blueberries I found this blueberry muffin recipe on Pinterest and when I clicked through the beautiful cupcake photo I noticed that the recipe included Greek yogurt…
Ingredients: Chocolate, sweet popcorn and honeycomb pieces (normally used to decorate cakes) I got the idea of making this from Becky’s blog when she melted white chocolate and added lots of sweets to it. Well I had some sweet popcorn left over so thought I’d mix it up a little. I simply melted 2 big…
Makes lots!! Although we did use mini cutters Ingredients: 12oz plain flour, 1tsp bicarbonate of soda, 1tsp ground ginger, half a tsp of cinnamon, 4 soy butter, 6oz light brown sugar, 6tbsp golden syrup (and some soya milk to bind) Gingerbread tastes sooo good and is so easy to make! Why wouldn’t you?! This is a…
To make 16 cupcakes/small muffins 2oz creamed coconut (melted into 11oz boiling water) 1oz cocoa powder 7oz self raising flour Half a tsp of baking powder Pinch of salt 4oz soft brown sugar 100ml sunflower oil This makes some really yummy vegan muffins! My friend found the recipe and they taste so good. I made…
These cakes look more peach or orange than raspberry as the icing didn’t come out quite pink but never mind, they still tasted good. To make these you will need: 4oz caster sugar, 4oz butter (softened), 4oz self raising flour, 2 eggs, 1tsp vanilla extract, raspberries! Firstly cream the sugar and butter together, before adding…
Recipe stolen from Becky at Milk Bubble Tea As stated above I’ve completely stolen this idea and recipe off Becky. She’s such a good baker! I love all of her tasty treats and her photography is beautiful. Hers definitely look a lot better than mine presentation/colour wise but they were super easy to make. So…
After seeing Becky from Milk Bubble Tea post some rather delicious looking rice krispie heart shaped cakes for Valentines I thought I’d give something similar a go. I love to make cupcakes but this time I went a little different and made a big slab of cake! Now these are vegan cakes but to make them non…