Baking Ultimate Salted Chocolate Chip Cookies Posted on June 5, 2025June 6, 2025 By Becky One of our favourite pastimes now the children are older, is to bake with them. Freddie in particular often suggests it, and will go and get one of our many cake/bread/biscuit recipe books, before picking out our ‘weekend recipe’. Both him and Sasha love the whole process- from beginning to… Read more
Baking Coffee and Pecan Cake Posted on May 20, 2025May 20, 2025 By Becky So the kids have been all about the baking at the moment, which in a fit of I’m-missing-you-as-you’re-at-school-so-of-course-you-can-do-any-activity-you-like-as-long-as-it-makes-you-happy, misty-eyedness, I have given them free-reign of the kitchen, with maybe a teeny bit of input from me. In this case, I had a bag of pecans that needed using up so decided… Read more
Baking Decorating Iced Spiced Biscuits (Ginger Frosted Cookies) Posted on May 16, 2025May 20, 2025 By Becky On Friday, whilst Freddie was at Preschool, I decided to prep some biscuits in advance, in order for him, Sasha, and their cousin to decorate that afternoon. Our baking cupboard is brimming with all sorts of edible decorations that need using up, so this was the perfect opportunity to let… Read more
Baking Banana Loaf bites with Banana icing Posted on September 12, 2018 By Becky As I mentioned in a previous blog post, we are big on baking in our household, particularly Adam and Freddie, who are starting to give Paul Hollywood a run for his money (without the perma-tan and ridiculously young girlfriend, arf arf). At the weekend they got their bake-on again, and… Read more
Baking Chocolate Swirl Cheesecake with Cranberry Coulis Posted on December 13, 2017January 25, 2023 By Becky December for us tends to be one big social whirl, and whilst we are often out-and-about a fair bit, we also like to host gatherings at ours, and of course, the majority of these are based around delicious food and drink. Whilst all this socialising is fun, it’s quite often… Read more
Family Diary Making memories AKA mangling mince pies! Posted on November 23, 2014May 19, 2025 By Becky Okay, so I know this is another Christmas-related post in November, but please bare with me! When I was growing up, one of the traditions I can remember in the run-up to Christmas, along with making the Christmas cake, was to make mince pies with my Mum, and bung them… Read more
Food Pancetta, Manchego and Courgette Muffins Posted on November 4, 2014August 21, 2025 By Becky The other week, whilst meal planning and racking my brains to come up with something new for tea for the kids that wasn’t just another sandwich, I realised that I hadn’t made any savoury muffins for a while. Always a favourite with both S and F, I decided to improvise… Read more
Baking Easy 4 Ingredient Flapjacks Posted on April 8, 2014May 2, 2025 By Becky Last week we made these super-easy ‘4 Ingredient’ flapjacks, as I was getting a bit fed up of spending a fair bit of of money most weeks on pre-packaged toddler cereal bars. These ones have no added sugar in them, and are great to make with little ones as there… Read more
Baking Easy Retro 1st Birthday Cake Posted on November 4, 2013January 13, 2026 By Becky Good morning! Now we are over all things Halloween until next year, I thought it would be a nice change to have something totally different to start this week- an easy 1st Birthday cake idea using printable cake bunting. Above is the cake that I made for Sasha’s 1st birthday… Read more