Anzac Biscuits (Dairy-Free)

Anzac biscuits are a well-known and equally well-loved biscuit (cookie) that we share with our cousins over the ditch in Australia.  There are heaps and heaps of recipes out in cyber-space, most of which have rolled oats, coconut and golden syrup.  Some add spices, nuts, dried fruit or even chocolate: Dean Brettschneider has a delicious …

Bushwalker Cookies with Apple (Dairy-free)

When I originally began this blog it was my intention to take regular recipes and see how I could ramp them up with flavours of apple.  I have done a fair bit of adding apple to recipes but have failed to add them to my blog before the bottomless-pit-teenagers manage to remove all trace of …

Dairy-free Wholemeal Double Chocolate Crinkle Biscuits (Cookies)

Dairy-free Wholemeal Double Chocolate Crinkle Biscuits (Cookies) These chocolate biscuits are inspired by the ginger crinkle biscuit that I make regularly as they are easy to make and delicious (the recipe can be found on the Chelsea Sugar website here). There are also a lot of other super yummy recipes on that website – I …

Chocolate Loaf with Coffee-Soaked Sultanas

One of the recipes in a cookbook I reviewed recently was for a Welsh tea loaf where the dried fruit is soaked in hot tea. The resulting loaf is delicious, particularly when cut into thick slabs and smeared with butter. I took that concept and replaced the tea with coffee. I like my coffee strong …

A piece of cake: Lemon & Currant Cake

//embedr.flickr.com/assets/client-code.jsThis Lemon & Currant Cake is a super easy, old-fashioned style cake that takes about 2 minutes to throw together, not including the resting or cooking time.  It tastes good with a glass of milk after a hard day at school; so good that it is hard to stop with just one piece.  The wholemeal …