Recipes & tips for filling bottomless pits
I’m delighted to be hosting this month’s Breakfast Club – a blogging event thought up by Helen at Fuss Free Flavours to celebrate the first meal of the day. It’s a good excuse to think of something a bit more exciting than tea and toast and share it with us here. This month’s theme is [...]
I’ve had another fun photoshoot with Sharron and Anna for the Good Food Channel website, creating a lovely range of Easter kid-friendly recipes for you to try out this holiday. I love sharing the beautiful pictures that Sharron takes of my food, and hope you enjoy looking at them too. I’ve also included links to all [...]
Splash out with a festival of baking and indulgence over the Easter holidays with these recipes i’ve created for Parentdish. It’s good to have some kitchen projects in the bank ready for kids to help out with on days where you don’t have any plans, so bookmark this page when you’re making your Easter to-do [...]
I just wanted to share the results of the photoshoot I worked on last week for UKTV’s Good Food Channel website with my good friend and very talented photographer Sharron Gibson. Part one of the assignment was to make and photograph a series of cupcake recipes by Crumbs Couture - so I spent two days [...]
I spotted these gorgeous fellas in this month’s Good Food Magazine and immediately thought they’d be perfect for Sam’s lunchbox and also for post-school munchies. They’ve got mashed cooked carrot in, along with pineapple chunks and juice and a healthy scattering of sunflower seeds so you can feel quite virtous eating them despite the fact [...]
Children’s birthday parties are fun to plan, but often result in panic-stricken midnight baking sessions trying to translate your vision of the perfect cake into reality. It all looked so blinking easy on that website… Last year I wasted a lot of time and stress trying to make 35 Death Star cake pops for Sam’s [...]
A cake that tastes as good as it looks – and I mean it REALLY delivers! We met some friends at the South Bank recently and had an indoor picnic at the Royal Festival Hall. We took our own cake supplies and got the teas in from the cafe. Apparently this is okay – unlike [...]
Sponsored post Christmas pudding is highly offensive in my book, so I always come up with an alternative to serve up after the main course on Christmas Day. There’s enough to think about when you’re juggling a large roast dinner, so a make-ahead dessert is crucial. In my role as a Sainsbury’s Christmas Ambassador I’ve [...]
The huge juggernaut that is the Great British Bake Off just keeps on trucking, rolling out brilliant telly and making stars of some pretty good home bakers. This last series was compelling stuff – the steely blue-eyed Paul Hollywood playing attractive silver fox bad cop to twinkly eyed kind Mary Berry’s good cop, they were [...]
This simple brownie recipe is ideal if you need to come up with the goods for a school cake stall but don’t have a lot of time to spare. You can’t beat a slab of chocolate brownie after a long week at school – especially one drizzled with melted chocolate and topped with white chocolate [...]
