Our fresh apricot season is short; fortunately dried apricots are easily obtainable and versatile to cook with. Keeping with the theme of back to school baking, flapjacks are another easy bake you can make with children. Once the ingredients are weighed, it’s a simple process of melting the sugary wet ingredients together and stirring […]
Peanut Butter and Jelly Parcels With Puff Pastry
The perfect kids’ tea time baking project – let them mess about with puff pastry while you get the dinner on.
Tomato Olive and Caper Tart with Puff Pastry
An easy Mediterranean-style Tomato Olive and Caper Tart using ready-made pre-rolled puff pastry. Updated 2026 · Originally featured on Babycentre A roll of bought puff pastry lurking in the top of the fridge can be turned into an almost instant dinner or dessert. Many a time when I’ve lost the will to do the weekly […]
Lemon and Philadelphia Whoopie Pies
Dinky Lemon Whoopie Pies filled with Philadelphia cream cheese and lemon curd with a white chocolate topping. Halfway between a cookie and a cake, these filled treats are said to have been created by Amish wives whose husbands exclaimed “whoopie!” on opening their lunchboxes. Traditionally chocolate with marshmallow filling, nowadays they come in a broader […]
Yeo Valley Visit
“Yeo Valley” is not the actual name of the idyllic fields sweeping upwards from Blagdon Lake however as the base for the dairy farm producing products of the same name, it’s one that has stuck. Take one balmy interlude between a heat wave and a decidedly un-flaming June and imagine yourself transported to the rolling […]
Sweet Bitesize Bakes Book Launch
A round up of all the goodies featured at the Sweet Bitesize Bakes book launch.
Zero baking required! Brand new blog event!
Inspired by my current kitchen chaos and recent White Chocolate Rocky Road Recipe I thought it might be quite fun to collect some posts where there’s zero baking required. I don’t mind if you send me refrigerator cakes, jellies, truffles, candy – my only stipulation is that there must be zero baking required. Any item that doesn’t […]
White Chocolate Rocky Road with Ginger Nuts
Rocky road bars made from white chocolate, ginger nut biscuits and white Maltesers – I called this “Moon Rocky Road” children’s space themed birthday tea party as it looks like the lunar surface! Updated 2026 · Originally featured on Babycentre Blog but now published in full here. May I reassure you? Despite what the media […]
Mini Sausage Pies
Tasty mini sausage pies you might eat in one bite! Ever since I made my steak and kidney mini pies in a 12 hole cupcake tin, I’ve been wondering if I could go smaller. A home made bite size snack pie. We see mini pies in supermarket party canape ranges often but rarely would we […]
Cookery Book Collection
I have never counted my cookery books but estimate there are up to 200. It may surprise you to hear I have regular purges.
Morphy Richards Intellisteam steamer review
Find out how the Morphy Richards’ Intellisteam compares with the Miele steam oven.
Emergency Trifle In Minutes – A Trifle Rushed
This quick trifle recipe uses ready-made ingredients and can be assembled in around 90 minutes – perfect for last-minute parties. We’ve all been there, or is it just me? Desperately needing an emergency trifle for a party. Sane people would rush to Sainsbury’s but no, I have a sort-of quick trifle-style dessert you can conjure […]
