I can’t remember where I found this recipe. I might have cobbled it together from a flapjack recipe and a caramel recipe. It’s based on millionaire’s shortbread. Shortbread isn’t my favourite, though, hence the flapjack base. It’s simple and quick and doesn’t involve much thinking. Which is the sort of recipe I’ve needed while there’s… Continue reading Millionaire’s Flapjack
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Autumn Apple Crumble
This time of year is apple-picking, cider-making season, for fruit just off the trees, and apples don't get tastier than that. At no other time of the year, do apples taste as good as they do from the end of August to the middle of October. It's also the time of year when that wonderful… Continue reading Autumn Apple Crumble
(Almost) According to Delia: Oat and Raisin Cookies
I don’t do all the baking. Sometimes, M gets it into his head that he wants to make something, usually cookies, occasionally a Victoria sponge. In a vague attempt at healthiness (I know), he’s been using Delia’s Oat and Raisin Cookie recipe. Only, he doesn’t like raisins, so they were switched for white chocolate chips… Continue reading (Almost) According to Delia: Oat and Raisin Cookies
Recipe: Chocolate and Berry Flapjack
Now is probably not the time for complicated recipes - or maybe it is: the ingredients probably haven't been stockpiled by others and are therefore probably still in the shops - but if you want to make lots of something, you need a straight-forward sort of a recipe. Something you don't have to think too… Continue reading Recipe: Chocolate and Berry Flapjack
Recipe: Sugar-free Banana Muffins
The problem I have with sugar-free recipes, of the sort you find in recipe books extolling the virtues of giving up sugar, is that they quite often simply replace the caster sugar with some variety of syrup, or fill it full of dates. I believe the reasoning goes something along the lines of “If it… Continue reading Recipe: Sugar-free Banana Muffins
Recipe: (Almost) According to Sainsbury’s: Bread and Ham Pudding
As with odd lengths of threads left over from cross-stitch kits, it's impressive how collections of recipes and recipe books gather. And then usually gather dust. It must be admitted that most of my collection has something to do with chocolate, but I have also managed to collect a large number of those give-away recipes… Continue reading Recipe: (Almost) According to Sainsbury’s: Bread and Ham Pudding
Recipe: Chocolate Truffles
Do you have a signature recipe? A treat, perhaps, which others come to you for? Mine is a simple, easily adapted recipe for chocolate truffles. I found this recipe in a Christmas recipe book. I'd decided that I'd spread Christmas cheer that year by making goodies for people. I reasoned it'd be cheaper and easier,… Continue reading Recipe: Chocolate Truffles
Recipe: Gingerbread with Lemon and Blueberries
What I like about this time of year is the cakes. This is the time for heavier cakes, for gingerbreads and fruit cakes, for spices and treacle. For all the things that taste of Christmas. (I know, a bit early for that, but now's the time to be baking for Christmas, to give the cakes… Continue reading Recipe: Gingerbread with Lemon and Blueberries
