Melting shortbread style biscuits made with oats, which keep really well for up to 5 days in an airtight container. These light as a feather, versatile biscuits are absolutely delicious either with a cup of tea or a chunk…
Wholemeal Cheese Scones
I love fruit scones, but have never considered making cheese scones, although I’ve eaten plenty – my Auntie Jacqui makes some particularly delicious one .Anyway, I was rooting around for…
New Zealand Carrot Cake
Rich, moist and delicious, this carrot cake is packed full of goodness – with a good dollop of naughtiness to make it stickily worthwhile. It is beyond doubt the best carrot cake I have ever made or indeed tasted, and…
Cinnamon rolls
Not to be confused with Cinnamon Swirls that are found in the supermarkets and coffee shops, these are a doughy bun as opposed to a flaky pastry Danish type cocoction. Still with the same delicious cinnamon taste, they are…
Apple, Marzipan & Almond Cake
A fabulously versatile cake: it makes a lovely coffee morning offering; a great hot dessert with cream or custard; or just an afternoon treat. I use up all the bruised apples floating around at the bottom of the fruit bowl…
Peanut Butter Cookies
Welcome to November: wet, windy and decidedly chilly in places. Comfort food is definitely required, and it doesn’t come more comforting than a chewy, warm cookie fresh from the oven. These take 20 minutes from start to finish, and are…
Chunky Chocolate Banana Cake
A Waste Not Want Not post So, what to do with all those browning bananas hanging around in the fruit bowl? You know, the ones everyone’s studiously ignoring until they are replaced with some nice new yellow ones. Admit it,…
Layers of Lemony Luciousness
Lemon is one of my favourite flavours, and I’ve always got a fruit bowl full of them. This lemon cake was for my dear Mother in Law’s birthday, and was absolutely fabulous. I’m blogging it now before we get into…
Beautiful Beetroot & Chocolate Muffins
Beetroot and Chocolate Muffins When these popped into my Twitter timeline yesterday I was instantly smitten. Possibly not your first thought when mulling over muffin flavours, but trust me, these are absolutely beautiful. They improve in flavour as they mature,…
Pirates, Parrots and Peanut butter cookies
Who would have thought a Wednesday walk with PartTimeWestie and HazzaBazza could have been so exciting? Who ever would have imagined pirates here, in The Avenue? That’s right, PIRATES! Real-life, oooh-aaahing, parrot carrying, peg-legged pirates. And how do you know…
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
Lordy lord, it’s a tad chilly out there. Derek-The-Weather was spot on with his forecast of snow, we’ve got tons of the stuff. And in my mind there is only one thing that really goes with snow, and that is…