Make it Monday : Pumpkin Cake

Pumpkin Cake, originally uploaded by Annaelizc.  THIS  is the recipe to make the yummiest gorgeous Pumpkin cake!  I needed something to use up my pumpkin puree which has been in my freezer since Halloween week and found the recipe when googling pumpkin puree! However I did ruin it by filling it with orange butter cream [...]

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Ta-Da! Tuesday: Graveyard Cake!

Graveyard Cake!, originally uploaded by Annaelizc. With all the decorations and dressing up for Halloween Boo decided it must be someones birthday and so we ‘had’ to have a cake! So we made a ‘graveyard cake’. It is plain and chocolate sponge marbled together covered in chocolate and richtea bisuits decorated with black writing icing [...]

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Ta-Da! Tuesday: Scooby Cake

september 2009 054, originally uploaded by Annaelizc. I’d like to take the credit for this, but unfortunately it’s not my work! Boo wanted a Scooby Doo cake (or rather Scoopy Doopy as he calls him) for his 3rd birthday so after baking a large flat chocolate cake in a roasting tin (couldn’t get a cake tin [...]

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Ta-Da! Tuesday: Sweet Potato & Lentil Soup

I always cook my Chickens in the slow cooker and then, when I have taken the chicken out and carved the meat, I put all the bones back in to the slow cooker and top up with water, a couple of carrots, an onion and some herbs out of the garden. I leave it on low [...]

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Ta-Da! Tuesday: A Chocolate Overdose!

I was informed that 36yr old men DO NOT ‘celebrate birthdays. I decided to ignore this though and discovered that they do love chocolate!! Yesterday I made Vonnie’s Caramels Slices (Millionaires shortbread) although my tin was too long so it was a little bit thin. Disadvantage of making it the day before, the boys eat [...]

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Make it Monday: Lemon Drizzle Cake

This cake is gorgeous! When I made Vonnie’s jaffa cake recipe a few weeks ago I wondered what it would be like if i substituted the Orange for Lemon and the Chocolate for Icing so I gave it a go and the result was far better than I could have hoped for! Here is the [...]

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Make it Monday: Flapjack

Today we have made flapjacks!   I couldn’t find the recipe so guessed at the amounts, it was a tiny bit too crumbly, but very yummy 200g (8oz) Butter 100g (40z) Caster Sugar (could use brown sugar) 3tbsp Golden syrup  300g (10oz) Porridge oats *Preheat oven to 180 degrees C *Grease a baking sheet or swiss [...]

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Ta-Da! Tuesday: Jaffa Cake loaf

I love Jaffa cakes! I was recently looking through my LJ Flickr groups photo a day pics and found one of a Jaffa-Cake-Loaf, I knew i’d have to try it out! As my Mum was visiting at the weekend I thought it was the ideal time. I got the recipe from here and it was so [...]

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