Festive marshmallow snowmen with chocolate hats and buttons!
Ingredients (for 8 snowman)
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Recipe | Nutella and cinnamon cake
A subtle hint of cinnamon completes this delicious chocolate hazelnut cake
By “nutella” I mean hazelut chocolate spread. I always use the supermarket’s own version because it’s so much cheaper and just as good. The recipe I used from BBC GoodFood is for a circular baking tin, but I used my rectangular tin and it baked fine, although far more quickly. And if you’re thinking “cinnamon, yuck!”, you can always use only 1 tsp in the mix. But the cinnamon flavour in the finished cake is very subtle, even when using 2 tsp.
Recipe | Bonfire night chocolate flake cupcakes
Add some sweetness to your November 5th celebrations with these chocolate flake bonfires with orange buttercream flames
If you’re not from the UK, you may not know that it’s traditional here to celebrate the night of November 5th with bonfires and fireworks. This cupcake decoration idea – using chocolate flakes to create the firewood and piped orange buttercream for the flames – is another one I saw a photo of on Pinterest and decided to give it a try.
The cupcakes
Use your favourite cupcake recipe! My recipe index has lots of cupcake recipes if you need some ideas. For example: caramel cupcakes, yoghurt cupcakes and brownie cupcakes.
I used my golden syrup sponge cake recipe. I used the same quantities of ingredients for making a loaf cake, but divided the mixture between 12 cupcake cases and baked for 20 minutes at 180 degrees C (160 fan, 356 degrees F, Gas Mark 4) until risen and golden.
Decoration ingredients (for 12 cupcakes)
Recipe | Halloween cute oreo spider muffins
Make your favourite muffins and then add these cute oreo spiders for an easy Halloween bake
I saw this Halloween oreo spider muffin/cupcake decoration idea on Pinterest and decided to give it a go!
The muffins
Make whatever muffins are your favourite. You could make cupcakes instead. My recipe index has lots of muffin and cupcake recipes if you need some ideas. For example: chocolate fudge muffins, snickers muffins or Halloween brownie cupcakes.
I made plain vanilla sponge muffins: 4 eggs (large or medium), 8 oz (225g) self-raising flour, 8 oz caster sugar, 8 oz butter/baking margarine and a tsp of vanilla essence/extract. Beat together the butter and sugar until fluffy, stir in the eggs until combined and finally fold in the flour. Divide the mixture into your cases (12 muffins or 24 cupcakes) and bake for about 20 minutes at 180 degrees C (160 fan, 356 degrees F, Gas Mark 4) until risen and golden.
Decoration ingredients (for 12 muffins)
Recipe | Golden syrup sponge cake
Rich, delicious golden syrup sponge cake. Perfect with a cup of tea or as a dessert.
I can’t believe I haven’t made this golden syrup sponge cake before. It’s absolutely delicious and I can’t recommend it highly enough! I got the recipe from Baking with Granny.
And if you can resist eating it all for a couple of days, it would make a brilliant dessert: serve a slice warm with ice cream!
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Recipe | Easy rainbow chocolate truffles
A fun, simple recipe for chocolate truffles. Child-safe too!
Ingredients (makes 20-30 truffles depending on how big you roll them)
- 200 g/ 7 oz milk chocolate (you could use dark or plain, mint or orange chocolate)
- 1 tsp soft butter
- 100 g / 3.5 oz vanilla/plain biscuits (I used malted milk biscuits, but digestives, shortbread, marie biscuits or similar would also work – use your favourites!).
- Approx. 50 g / 1.7 oz rainbow sugar spinkles (hundreds and thousands).
- Optional mini foil/paper cases. I had some Wiltons foil cases in the cupboard to use up. But these are completely optional and probably only necessary if you’re planning to give them as a gift.
Method
Recipe | Coffee and walnut tray bake
This coffee and walnut tray bake is the perfect tea time cake. Delicious!
This is a quick, easy recipe I found on GoodtoKnow. I used a lot of strong coffee and the coffee flavour in the cake was still subtle, so don’t worry about going too far.
Recipe | Chocolate caramel Chelsea buns
Chelsea buns with chocolate hazelnut and caramel sauce. Why not?!
I very rarely make bread or anything involving yeast. Mainly because I haven’t the time for mucking about with proving. But when I found this recipe from GoodtoKnow for chocolate Chelsea buns, it sounded straightforward so I thought I’d give it a go.
Traditional Chelsea buns contain spices and sultanas. This is a sweeter twist on the classic recipe.
I didn’t have enough chocolate hazelnut spread, but did have some salted caramel sauce to use up. And so that’s why my version contains chocolate and caramel. You can just use the chocolate hazelnut spread if you prefer.
Ingredients (makes 12 chocolate caramel Chelsea buns)
Recipe | Old school jam and cornflake tart
Jam and cornflake tart: a school dinner classic I’ve been meaning to make for ages!
What can I say? I had cornflakes to use up! I found quite a few recipes which said to use ready-to-roll, shop bought-pastry. And that’s a good option if you’re in a hurry, but making the pastry isn’t that tricky if you have the ingredients and time. I used this recipe from Baking Mad.
Jam and cornflake tart is an old school classic. Another one I think many people would have had served with custard.
Ingredients
Recipe | Lemon melt icing sugar cookies
Bite through the crunchy shell to a fluffy lemon cloud of icing sugar cookie deliciousness…
It had been ages since I’d made a lemon recipe and a quick search for simple options turned up this recipe for soft melt-in-your-mouth lemon cookies.
These lemon melt icing sugar cookies are absolutely beautiful, particularly if you get the chance to eat one or two when they’re fresh out of the oven. The outer shell has a sweet crunch and the inside is a fluffy cloud of subtle lemony goodness.
Rolling and baking the sticky dough in several batches is a bit of a faff, but your efforts will be more than rewarded.
Ingredients (makes approx. 50 icing sugar cookies)
