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My aim is to make sugar free marshmallows as perfectly light and fluffy as these rose water marshmallows are. I have dusted them with drinking chocolate but you could go the traditional route of using cornflour. Or even add some flavour to icing sugar. Head straight on to the recipe for Rose Water Marshmallows ♥ … Continue reading Rose Water Marshmallows Dusted With Chocolate
Did you know that a scone is a quick bread? They are made using flour and leavening, or in this case, self raising flour. Scones should be slightly sweetened and glazed. In Devon and Cornwall they are an integral part of afternoon tea. The only difference being whether you put the jam on before or … Continue reading Recipe For Pomegranate Scones
Glüwein is a red wine drink, served traditionally around Christmas in countries that enjoy a winter climate over this period. Using mulling spices, sugar and citrus fruits I have used Cabernet Sauvignon to make my mulled wine. Head straight on to the recipe ♥ Last week Dave and I celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary. We … Continue reading Glüwein Recipe With Star Anise
Our Easter weekend was really wonderful, and I hope that yours was as well. I did quite a bit of laundry and only a little bit of recipe testing for the blog. I left the making of my Tsoureki Cypriot Easter Bread until Easter Monday. I trusted that the recipe from Paul Hollywood would work … Continue reading Recipe For Tsoureki Easter Bread
Late last year I participated in Yuppiechef's annual cookathon and our meal started with a melon and avocado salad with a roasted tomato salad dressing. Tami commented that she was looking forward to the recipe for the salad dressing, and it has taken me quite some time to get it posted. We used up the first … Continue reading Recipe For Tomato Salad Dressing
There is a saying, the gift that keeps on giving, which reared its ugly head when I started working on this recipe. I say ugly head, as the gift was not something positive and each time it gives back it is a negative experience for me. Frikkadels are a traditional South African dish, which I … Continue reading Recipe For Traditional Frikkadels
I absolutely love blueberries, and treated myself to a very large punnet a few weeks ago. I was making a cobbler and used strawberries and blueberries for it and then had an abundance left over. I decided to adapt one of the Simple Summer Cookathon recipes to suit my fridge and make a blueberry ripple ice … Continue reading Blueberry Ripple Ice Cream Recipe
I tend to bake every weekend if I have the time. It is mainly because I love to have something sweet after dinner every night. I also love to share what I bake and I usually send half of what I have made home with James, my step son. On the weekend of the 12th … Continue reading Recipe For Strawberrylicious Cup Cakes
This month we could choose any challenge to do and I chose Life of Pie from this year June. The blog checking line from this challenge is: Rachael from pizzarossa was our lovely June 2013 Daring Bakers’ host and she had us whipping up delicious pies in our kitchens! Cream pies, fruit pies, chocolate pies, even crack pies! There’s nothing … Continue reading Recipe For Crostata Di Pera
I am loving the combination of cherries and chocolates, and before you know it, I might venture out and bake a Black Forest Cake. But, I am not quite there yet and so I am experimenting with the flavours, without having to make the actual cake. A few weeks ago I made a chocolate cherry … Continue reading Recipe For Chocolate Swirl Cake