Easy Creme Egg Cookies are packed with dark chocolate, pecans, and oats and then topped with half a mini Creme Egg. Crispy, chewy, and delicious, these cookies won’t hang around for long! These Easy Creme Egg Cookies are just divine. I love pecan nuts so decided to combine these with dark chocolate to complement the…
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Danish Fedtebrød – Coconut Cookie Slices with Rum Glaze
Traditional Danish Fedtebrød – Coconut Cookie Slices with Rum Glaze – beautifully short buttery cookies packed with desiccated coconut and topped with a rum glaze. I’m so excited to share these Danish Fedtebrød – Coconut Cookie Slices with Rum Glaze with you today! My mum found my Danish grandmother’s Saffir Mel (flour) collection of cookie…
Smokey Maple Roasted Chickpeas – vegan & gluten-free ActiFry recipe!
Smokey Maple Roasted Chickpeas are a super tasty healthy snack which taste like maple cured bacon but are vegan and made with sesame oil, smoked paprika, onion granules and maple syrup. I often daydream about food and for the last few days I’ve been imagining these Smokey Maple Roasted Chickpeas cooked in the ActiFry. I…
Cheat’s Stollen Croissants 2 Ways – quick & delicious!
The idea for these Cheat’s Stollen Croissants came to me in a flash of inspiration the other day. I love Stollen and I love croissants so why not combine the 2 flavours into one I thought! At this time of year, there’s usually an ample supply of leftover dried fruits and mincemeat (you can use…
Cheat’s Mince Pies with a Secret Twist – amaze your friends!
Today I bring you Cheat’s Mince Pies with a Secret Twist! I haven’t made mince pies for about 25 years, gasp! You see hubby has never really liked them or any of the other traditional British Christmas treats containing dried fruit and my daughter has followed in his foot steps and won’t even eat a scone…
Crispy Clementine Cookies
Crispy Clementine Cookies are delicious buttery, clementine infused cookies with a crispy sugar glaze. Perfect for Christmas and easy enough for kids to make with a little supervision. Every Christmas since my twenties I have been baking these Crispy Clementine Cookies which I adapted from an orange based recipe in my mother’s old 1970 cookbook…
Easy Blackberry Curd
Easy Blackberry Curd with a hint of lemon. A simple recipe that doesn’t require a double boiler or endless stirring. If you’re anything like me, you’ll have a freezer full of blackberries that you foraged for earlier this summer. I realised it was high time I used up my blackberries so I decided to make some…
Chocolate Pear Ghosts – a healthier Halloween treat!
Chocolate Ghost Pears are dipped in dark and white chocolate for a healthier Halloween treat that kids will love! A great alternative to a toffee apple for bonfire night too! I recently had a brain wave thinking about foodie offerings for Halloween and realised that pears were the perfect shape to use as ghosts. So…
Halloween Smoothie Bowl – fun pumpkin design!
Today I have the pleasure of sharing with you my Halloween Smoothie Bowl! Whether your kids are young or old we all want them to eat a healthy diet and anything that can tempt them to eat fruit and vegetables they might otherwise turn their noses up has to be a good idea. So with…
Oreo Brownies – indulgent and delicious!
Oreo Brownies – chocolatey, gooey and delicious, made with plain and milk chocolate with hidden miniature Oreos which are also used as a topping! It was my daughter’s 13th birthday last Sunday and she knows what she likes when it comes to cakes and sweet treats, so this year she decided she’d like me to…