Inspiring friendly recipes and thoughts

This recipe was devised due to spying a little bottle of caramel essence in Waitrose.

I haven’t made a proper cake for ages – somehow it always seems more convenient to make cupcakes, but every now and then you can’t beat the visual appeal of a stunning centrepiece…

Sometimes you want a crunch and sometimes you want a chew! This recipe is for those chewy days, days when you want to linger over a cookie whilst mulling over an interesting concept.

I really like spiced oatmeal and raisin cookies, but my children have an aversion to raisins.

This recipe is the result of a total experiment involving an ignored jar of Lotus caramelised Biscoff spread that was sitting in the larder, looking all lonely and sorry for itself.

It was the termly school cake sale last week, giving the perfect excuse to bake like crazy! I always make two types of baked offerings so that my girls get to choose, it seems a bit sad to have a v…

This recipe was inspired by a vegan donut recipe by Jamie Oliver.

Panettone is such a delicious Christmas treat – part bread, part cake, part stunning centrepiece and not too sweet to boot – perfect for all manner of occasions.

Profiteroles – those cream filled, chocolate topped choux buns – are so tempting and the ideal wow pudding for any special celebration.

This week is going to have a distinctly sweet theme, after last week’s little foray to Mexico.

A classic chocolate mousse is such an iconic, desirable pudding that few can resist.

Here’s a handy way of perking up a batch of chocolate chip cookies.

Apparently KitKats are the most popular chocolate bar, at least in the UK.

Part two of my series of recreations of classic chocolate bars is the iconic Twix bar- surely a common favourite.