(Lady)Birds and Bees cookies for National AIDS Trust Bake Aware campaign

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The weather may keep kidding us it isn’t spring yet but I’m full of the joys of it with these ladybirds and bumble bees chocolate cookies.

I was especially pleased with how these came out because my husband actually asked if he could take them in to his colleagues at work. The feedback was that an office full of graphic designers all loved them and declared them to be “very graphic”!
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Chocolate coffee sugar cookies and why I’ll never be a barista

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Sparkly chocolate coffee sugar cookies, trying to convince myself to drink coffee whilst learning to use the De Longhi Icona coffee machine. [Read on...]

Monkeying around with crisps, oops I mean baked wholegrain corn snacks

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Like most mums I find my kid is hankering after a snack to plug the gap between school finishing and tea being ready. Generally this involves biscuits or bananas but until now not crisps or baked wholegrain corn snack thingies.

I was however asked to try out a bag of brand new [Read on...]

France on Fridays #5: A Quick Trip to La Boucherie

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I lapsed out of my habit of posting a French themed picture each Friday but here is one for you today.

I am continuing work on my new French travel site – it has its own Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr and WordPress site built but I want to get some “pillar content” as Darren Rowse [Read on...]

May Bitesize Bits News Round Up

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I’ve been saving up a few bits and pieces to tell you about and rather than drip feed them here goes with a mighty bumper Bitesize Bits news round up of stuff I’ve been doing elsewhere off and online.

The inspirational Crumbs Food sisters have started a dead popular YouTube channel and they [Read on...]

April book round up and a confession

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With the dearth of posts lately you’ve probably noticed I’ve had bloggers’ block. Before rumours start circulating that I’m either pregnant or head down writing another book I should let you know what the real reason is.

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