Just been catching up on a few things today that I needed to do on the website and blog with the help of my husband. If it wasn’t for him I wouldn’t be able to run my own blog and website and I think at the moment it all looks really good with a few…
At 7am this morning I started to make some dough for my Hot Cross Buns. I left the dough to prove in a bowl on top of the oven. I knew I would be making something for the childrens’ breakfasts that would need the oven to be used so the heat from the oven would help the…
Today is a catching up on jobs kind of day. There are so many things to be done and the children are on their Easter holidays so I have the job of keeping them entertained as well. It is not that nice a day today but I am in the baking mood. My husband said…
This week is UK Coffee Week so I am concentrating on baking with coffee in the recipes. Today I am going to be making some Coffee Viennese Whirls flavoured with coffee and sandwiched together with coffee buttercream. I know the children will hate them but the husband will love them. I am not a great…
Today I have made a plain vanilla sponge and sandwiched it together with diabetic strawberry jam. Nutritionally, the sugars are low which is great for any diet not just diabetics. In the recipe, I halved the amount of caster sugar used and this has made a great difference in the sugar content. The sponge did…
What a day it has been. After the school run I decided to have some “me time”. This involved my exercise programme followed by housework. I used the housework as a cool down and managed to finish the whole of the house in 90 minutes. After that I decided I wanted cake so I made…
