Halloween is one of my favourite holidays. I like to decorate the house, dress up, buy sweets for the kids that are coming to trick or treat and I cook special food like my black buns or the graveyard cake. When The Co-operative got in touch and offered me a few of their special treats
Hubby loves trifles and I love coffee, so a Cappuccino trifle was a natural idea. It turned out beautiful and we both enjoyed it a lot. I wanted it to look like a cake, so I made it in a cake tin with loose bottom. Ingredients for 8 servings: – 1/2 pack of sponge fingers
I try to diversify the way I post my recipes and my last recipe was rye bread, but this is a very special bread: black, for Halloween. I intend to make more recipes for Halloween this week and next week, hopefully the time will allow it, as I have a few days busy with work
I baked rye bread only once a few years ago, but not as a plait. I’m not used to baking my bread like this because I find it easier to put it the baking tray as it is. For the cozonac I’m making the plait from 2 strands of dough. This is one of my
I wanted a dish with lots of veggies after a busy week when I didn’t have time to properly think at our diet and diversify it. So, I made chilli con soya with a staggering amount of vitamins and it’s delicious. Ingredients for 6 servings of Chilli con soya: – 2 carrots – 2 courgette
I baked every single week at least one of the challenges from Great British Bake Off and I learned a lot during the process. I wanted to do lots of things and sometimes a bit more than I could chew. For example, making the linky was a little too much as my time was limited
This was the last bake for Great British Bake Off, it’s sad is over. I made a lower fat version by switching half of the oil with yogurt. It has the same taste, but less calories. I wanted to make a couple of carrots, but I had some issues with the food colouring and in
