Recipe: peanut butter and jelly parcels

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The perfect kids’ tea time baking project – let them mess about with puff pastry while you get the dinner on. [Read on...]

Recipe: white chocolate and ginger rocky road

White chocolate rocky road

AKA “moon rocky road” for a boy’s space themed birthday tea.

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World Baking Day: Ted bakes jubilee biscuits

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Incase you’re wondering, I didn’t do these. Ted did.

It’s only a matter of time until Ted has a blog of his own, tonight I even caught him lining up a silver cake board as a reflector leaned up against some baked bean tins.

Meanwhile, despite best intentions, I did not manage to blog [Read on...]

Recipe: Easter chocolate bunny pops

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There’s more to Easter goodies than giant eggs and a colourful delivery of Lakeland’s wide range of Easter baking and treat making products silicon moulds and trays gave us opportunity to have a play making chocolate bunnies and chicks.

First up was the metal chocolate bunny lolly mould. I made use of pink [Read on...]

Recipe: daffodil cookie pops

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The perfect spring, Mother’s Day or Easter sugarcraft baking project to make with kids.

A bunch of daffodils epitomises this time of year however my google searches failed to uncover any easy Daffodil Cookie Pops quite like these.

Take one basic roll out cookie dough, cut out stars, cover them with [Read on...]

Review: new Tesco Easy Home Bake baking range

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I’m not a big user of packet cake mixes but I was intrigued how successful this new chilled ready made cake batter from Tesco would be. Is there any point?

We have a furry visitor. Billy Bear goes on little holidays to visit all the children in my son’s class and this week it’s [Read on...]