I’ve always wanted to make a proper Christmas Cake from scratch but it’s always seemed a bit ambitious for me! And besides, my mum has always made the Christmas Cake and it just seems like a ‘mummy’ thing to do at Christmas. Newsflash……. I am the mummy now – eeeek!!! Seems a bit surreal when […] Read more…
*WARNING: These are delicious but NOT diet friendly :)* It was Master J’s 7th birthday last week (which I wrote about here) and every birthday I always make cupcakes for his class at school. I tried to get out of it this year by offering to buy 25 chocolate Freddo Frogs instead, but he insisted […] Read more…
I’ve been so busy recently that I haven’t done much baking at all. My poor thermomix is sitting very sadly on the kitchen bench desperate for some love. Miss H has also been on my case too – she’s a real little baker in the making!! This is the first weekend in ages that we […] Read more…
I probably should have posted this recipe before Easter but I just wasn’t organised enough (story of my life). Mr D has been off work for the last week (to spend some time with his parents who are visiting us from South Africa), and although it has been fantastic having him around, it has really […] Read more…