Raspberry quark “mess”

quark raspberry mess

Those little tubs of dry meringues you get in the supermarket can come in very handy. I’ll never forget wowing the mums at my son’s 1st birthday party by serving them in dishes of strawberries drizzled with molten chocolate. My sleep deprived friends with babies of their own seemed to think I was some [Read on...]

Lemon “cheesecake” using quark and speculoos

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Some day or another I’ll get around to making a bona fide cheese cake that you bake in the oven – but for the time being I’m happy to cheat with stuff like Philadelphia and today, lemon flavoured quark.

You get all the joy of lemon flavour, biscuit base but the “cheesy” bit is [Read on...]

Egg free quark chocolate mousse recipe

quark chocolate mousse

Usually making chocolate mousse involves folding whisked egg whites into a chocolatey custard type mix and if I’m honest, it’s not something I do very often.

When you can get a chocolate dessert that looks as good as the one above, why would you bother?

Quark is one of those ingredients you hear about [Read on...]

Pinning and pining for Lovely Things in Jars

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When you’re up close getting your hands dirty with social media all day long, you take it for granted people know about wonderful stuff already.

I was chatting to an offline friend last week and she had never heard of Pinterest.

“Oh it’s wonderful!” I told her. “You’d love it!”

You [Read on...]

(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 [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...]

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