What? No bright orange Halloween bake? I could pretend that I deliberately avoided creating anything tacky on purpose… but the truth is that unfortunately my hidden pumpkin cake did not go to plan at all. It was a mess. Less hidden pumpkin, more hidden blob. It tasted good though – so I’m sure there is a…
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Soft Pretzels
Oh my gosh, I’ve had a terrible week. I don’t know whether I’ve slipped a disc or whatever, but I’ve been channelling Rachel from that episode of Friends where Ross has to help her do her makeup. World’s worst back 2k16. And baking does not make it better at all. The things I go through…
Churros with Chocolate Peanut Butter Sauce
This week on the Great British Bake Off we were faced with, quite possibly, the weirdest challenge of all time – batter week. Yep, all the bakes this week involved various forms of batter, including filled Yorkshire puddings, weird lacy pancakes, and traditional Spanish churros. I pretty much hate anything made from batter. The word ‘batter’…
Double Chocolate Muffins
The queen of baked goods, double chocolate muffins are the first to get eaten in the office kitchen. Followed closely by the donuts, of course. But there’s really no need to go out and buy them when they are this easy to make! You know me by now – I like to add as much…
Double Chocolate Millionaire’s Shortbread
Millionaire’s shortbread is one of my all-time favourites. How could I possibly make it better? As always, the answer turned out to be more chocolate. This is a triple whammy of perfection. On the bottom, you’ve got a soft and crumbly chocolate shortbread base. Incredibly simple and quick to make, with plenty of cocoa to…
Chocolate Lime Bars
So, I managed to drag myself away from trying to track down Pikachu, and spent Sunday afternoon cooking up these hulk-green chocolate lime bars. I might have gone a little OTT on the food colouring. Let that be a lesson to you. There are a tonne of limes in our fridge at the moment, due to…
Chocolate Waffles
I gave Katie a waffle maker as a wedding present. It might seem unromantic, but at some point the humble waffle became a symbol of the future we were going to share together. We’d imagine the house we would own, the gorgeous kitchen we would create, and the ridiculously over the top breakfasts we would…
Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Blondies
I’m finally posting a new recipe! Gold star for me! Seriously, I’ve been such a bad baking blogger lately. Last time I promised I would try and post once a week, and that was about a month ago… It turns out that being less than six weeks away from your incredibly DIY’d wedding, having a partner…
Edible Raw Cookie Dough (Egg Free)
UPDATED – After a helpful reader pointed out the potential risks of eating raw flour, please see the note at the bottom of the recipe if you want to bake your flour before using it in the dough. Today’s recipe is a bit of a weird one. It’s just cookie dough. One of the best…
Cherry Chocolate Hot Cross Buns
There’s only four sleeps until the most chocolatey day of the year is upon us, and so I thought I’d turn the one remaining non-chocolatey Easter treat into something a lot more… well… chocolatey. Introducing Cherry Chocolate Hot Cross Buns. Or maybe Choc Cross Buns? I don’t even know if Hot Cross Buns are a…
The BEST Chocolate Sheet Cake
This is the chocolate sheet cake to end all sheet cakes. Guaranteed to be a hit at your kids birthday party, or when you need to feed a whole bunch of people with an easy and pretty cake that looks like you put a lot more effort into it than you actually did. Plus this…
Caramel Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Buttercream
The buttercream on today’s caramel cupcakes is so good, that Katie made me promise that next time I make it, I have to make her a whole bowl of it just to eat with a spoon. The cupcakes aren’t half bad either, by the way. It took three attempts to get these cupcakes right. The…
White Chocolate Creme Egg Fudge
We are properly into March now, and that means I am going to be stepping up the Easter treats for the next few weeks. Of course that also means I’ve got plenty more chocolate coming your way, as well as the recipes for the Mother’s Day treats I sent my Mum. Can’t spill the beans…
The Best Chocolate Cupcakes
Everyone has their staple chocolate cupcake recipe, and this is mine. The best chocolate cupcakes you will ever make. What’s so great about them? I like to think their greatness is three-fold: Firstly, they are made from melted chocolate rather than cocoa. This does mean the ingredients you will need for these are a little…
Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
I can’t even cope with these double chocolate chip cookies. I’ve eaten so many of them that I’m not sure I’m going to fit in my wedding dress for my first fitting next week. If you too want a cookie that you cannot stop eating, then these are the babies for you. It is scientifically…
Chocolate and Peanut Butter Bars
Peanut butter, chocolate, and cookies. Surely it doesn’t get any better than that? Well, let me introduce you to my chocolate and peanut butter bars. In case you guys hadn’t noticed, I really like baking. But what I really love is baking things for Katie. And I have never had such an amazing reception from her…
Chocolate Chip Cookies
Chocolate chip cookies are one of my favourite thinks to bake. They are so easy to make, and result in very minimal amounts of washing up to do afterwards – which is fantastic if you don’t even have a dishwasher. They are better than other types of biscuits, because you don’t need to mess around…
Soft Amaretto Cookies (Gluten Free)
Morning everyone 🙂 Today I’m bringing you sweet and soft amaretto cookies, which include a generous helping of my alcohol of choice – Disaronno. Just a quick post today – I’ve reached the stage in the wedding planning process where my to-do list is becoming more of a to-do book. Luckily, these soft amaretto cookies…
Gingerbread Pancakes (without Molasses)
Soft and fluffy gingerbread pancakes, drizzled with home made warm lemon sauce. Perfect for a lazy Sunday morning breakfast. If you live in the UK, tomorrow is Pancake Day. Yep, we have a whole day set aside just to eat pancakes. One of the main problems we face as a nation is that our ‘pancakes’…
Coconut Ice
Morning all. This is my ‘Valentine’s Day’ recipe – the ever-so unromantic Coconut Ice. I decided to make something pink, because pink = love, right? But then I went and coloured them peach. Top marks for me. I’m trying to rebuild my relationship with the peach food colouring I bought to make the peach disaster…
Fortune Cookies
These Fortune Cookies are loads of fun, and they actually taste amazing too. We have a New Year’s Eve tradition in our house – board game night. There is even a trophy (it looks very similar to this one from Friends – troll doll and everything). Katie has been victorious for the past two years, but…