Ginger Slices

16 May

Stacked ginger slices tied up with an orange ribbon.

If you are a fan of ginger than you are going to love these ginger slices. Every bite is full of fiery ginger, the base is crumbly and the topping is smooth, sweet and spicy! I love ginger as a flavour and so does my fella, he is a massive fan and loves it in [...]

Buttermilk Scones 2 Ways Blueberry and Plain

10 May

So Buttermilk Scones 2 Ways blueberry and plain, same scones two different flavours basically, I love blueberries and try to add them to almost anything I can where as my fella is not such a fan. He is a bit boring when it comes to food to be honest, I like to experiment and it [...]

Homemade Hot Chocolate drinking powder

2 May

hot chocolate with all the trimmings

Now I know what you are all thinking, homemade hot chocolate drinking powder in May? I know I know spring has sprung, the birds are frisky and the flowers are blooming. But I live in Scotland where there are still the occasional hailstorms, the temperature is still struggling to climb above 7 and the daffodils [...]

Lemon and Blueberry Cupcakes

26 Apr

lemon and blueberry cupcakes

With spring now in the air I wanted to create a lovely light spring inspired cupcake. I had a surplus of lemons in the house and wanted to use them. Lemon is fresh and such a clean flavour but wanted something to back it up. Then blueberries caught my eye. Now they are a perfect [...]

Salted Caramel Sauce

21 Apr

salted caramel sauce with a spoon dipped in it

Now I know this is everywhere on the Internet at the moment and there are 101 different recipes out there but I have done you the good dead of testing a bunch of them out to find not only the best one but also an easy one to make.   Some were so complicated; I [...]

Strawberry and Vanilla Coffee Shop Style Muffins

16 Apr

strawberry and vanilla coffee shop style muffin with coffee

Is there anything better than a coffee shop muffin? The huge dome that begs to be ripped off and devoured is just irresistible, the rest, we could take or leave to be honest with ourselves. Hence why I decided to try and crack coffee shop muffins at home. I had some left over strawberries and [...]

Peanut Butter Cupcakes

9 Apr

peanut butter cupcake

For many years I have been on the hunt for the perfect peanut butter cupcakes. I adore peanut butter and will eat it with almost anything and quite happily on its own straight from the jar with a spoon. Crunchy or smooth either will do and strangely I am very partial to banana and peanut [...]

Chocolate Mousse

6 Apr

chocolate moose with a dollop of lemon yogurt on top

I love this dessert; strangely I am not a huge fan of chocolate desserts. Any other time of the day, yep that’s fine I’m well up for that but I find chocolate dessert after a meal just too filling but this chocolate mousse is the exception. It’s light and fluffy and just rich enough to [...]

Lemon Curd

2 Apr

a jar of lemon curd

Homemade Lemon Curd A little something that’s easy to whip up to beat those post Easter blues, homemade lemon curd. There is something so lovely about the flavour of lemon, its zingy and fresh and goes almost perfectly with anything, sweet or savoury. I had an abundance of lemons the other day and had to [...]

The Liebster Award

27 Mar

liebster award logo

At first when I got this nomination for the Liebster award I was a little baffled, I had only been blogging for such a short time, what was all this about? After a little time spent on google I realised it’s just a fun way to share some information with fellow bloggers and share a [...]