Brandy snaps are caramelised biscuits. The brandy reference comes from the addition of brandy into the cream traditionally used to fill the brandy snaps.
Join the Christmas Tree Cookie Parade!
No Christmas tree is fully dressed without some Christmas tree cookies upon it. Whether you’ve carefully sugarcrafted your confections or had the children do the decorating, there’s a home for all our lovely Christmas Tree cookies to be celebrated side by side in the first ever Christmas Tree Cookie Parade. Christmas Tree cookie posts – […]
Rosca de Reyes Three Kings Spanish Epiphany Cake
Rosca de Reyes or Roscòn de Reyes is a loaf style cake made for Twelfth Night in Spanish speaking countries. Rosca de Reyes is a traditional Spanish cake baked to celebrate the Three Kings’ giving gifts to the Baby Jesus on the feast of The Epiphany (January 6th). Updated 2026 · Post originally sponsored by […]
My top baking Christmas gifts
The pick of my favourite baking Christmas gifts. From piping skills to pie making, there’s a gift for every baker here.
Christmas Wreath Cookies
These Christmas wreath decorated chocolate cookies are equally suitable as gifts or to hang as Christmas tree cookies.
Retro and traditional foodie gifts
Following on from my Italian and French inspired foodie gift list, my next selection of Christmas gifts for bakers will follow shortly. In the meantime please come and browse through this slideshow of bumper presents I’ve just published at BabyCentre. From violet truffles to purple stripey Kmixes, there’s something for retro fans and […]
Chocolate Cookie Dough
With enough chocolate cookie dough in this recipe to keep half in the freezer, you can always have some chocolate cookie dough ready to bake into chocolate cookies.
Red Velvet Cake Tips and Christmas Red Velvet Cake
Christmas fruitcake is on a lot of people’s ‘don’t like’ list but these mini red velvet cakes are just as Christmassy. I made a lot of red velvet cakes when writing my book, Sweet Bitesize Bakes. I never used to think much of red velvet cake and then I discovered that I’d only tasted meh! […]
Fig Cake (Gluten Free)
A pretty cake suitable for Christmas. If you can get hold of some fresh figs, this gluten free fig cake with red currants is an ideal cake for coeliacs.
Italian Foodie Christmas Gifts
The first instalment of the 3 part Maison Cupcake Christmas gift guide. Italian inspiration for Christmas gifts 1. Nigellissima book by Nigella Lawson, available all booksellers. Nigella feeds us how to mangiare Italiano, inspired by her year working in Italy as a girl. 2. 1 kilo of panettone in a red tin – £18.50 Divertimenti. […]
December bitesize bits
A few bits and pieces we’ve tried this month This is a somewhat shorter than usual bitesize bits – most of November was taken up with looking after invalids for one reason or another but here are some of the yummy things that took our minds off things! The offer of feeling “Perkier” was very […]
Wickes Kitchen Results
In the summer we had a new kitchen fitted… You’ve seen a few glimpses already but I’ve been holding out for a sunny day to take pictures to show you properly! Whilst everyone else was hooked on the Olympics, I was crammed into my living room with most of the contents of my old and […]
