All the delicious flavour of a classic simnel cake in traybake form! This Easy Simnel Cake Traybake is perfect for Mother’s Day or Easter. Reinventing this traditional British Easter cake as a traybake makes it easy to transport and cut – so ideal for Easier bakesales, parties, gatherings etc. This blog post contains affiliate links, this means if you click on a link and go on to buy the product I recommend, I will get a small commission, but you will not be charged a penny more – thanks ... continue reading...
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Mini Simnel Cakes (Gluten Free)
All the delicious flavours of a traditional Simnel Cake in an easy to make cupcake size, these Mini Simnel Cakes are also gluten free and have an exciting marzipan surprise inside! The impressive looking simnel cake, with its layers of fruitcake and marzipan, topped with lightly toasted marzipan balls has become synonymous with Easter, but did you know it was traditionally NOT an Easter treat at all, but a Mother’s Day cake? Yep, that’s right – it used to be that young girls in domestic ... continue reading...
Easy Chocolate Easter Cupcakes
Delicious chocolate cupcakes, topped with chocolate buttercream and decorated with mini eggs – these Easy Chocolate Easter Cupcakes are quick and simple to make and require no special equipment or cake decoration skills! A quick and simple Easter bake! Fancy a bit of Easter baking? Want a quick and easy recipe that doesn’t require any special equipment or skills? Then these Easy Chocolate Easter Cupcakes fit the bill perfectly! All you need to do is beat together butter and ... continue reading...
Easy Chocolate Easter Cake
A delicious chocolate sponge cake, decorated with chocolate buttercream, Cadbury’s Creme Eggs and Mini Eggs! This Chocolate Easter Cake is quick and simple to make, and requires no special equipment. Perfect for Easter bake sales and celebrations, and an ideal cake to make with kids! An Easter cake anyone can make! Google ‘Chocolate Easter Cake’ and you will find many beautiful cakes. But most of them take a long time, use specialist equipment and require professional level ... continue reading...
Easter Chocolate Cornflake Cakes (only 3 ingredients!)
These super simple Easter Chocolate Cornflake Cakes are made with just 3 ingredients: cornflakes, milk chocolate and mini eggs. Utterly delicious and a great quick and easy Easter recipe to make with kids, they are perfect for Easter bake sales, Easter parties and a great kid-friendly dessert option for Easter lunch! A quick and simple Easter chocolate nest recipe Chocolate Cornflake Nests, filled with mini eggs, are a real favourite to make at Easter time. They are an ... continue reading...
Coconut Pineapple Carrot Cake
How to improve on carrot cake? Add coconut and pineapple to it! This tropical tasting Coconut Pineapple Carrot Cake with a coconut cream cheese frosting is easy to make and utterly delicious. Perfect for celebrations…or just when you fancy a bit of a treat! I’ll admit it, I have a huge weakness for carrot cake…it’s definitely up there as one of my all-time favourites…along with chocolate cake, of course…and coffee and walnut cake…and lemon drizzle…and, well, quite a few others too now I ... continue reading...
Orange, Pistachio and Honey Polenta Cake
Bursting with the delicious flavours of the Mediterranean, this Orange, Pistachio and Honey Polenta Cake, is naturally gluten free, dairy free AND refined sugar free. It’s also very easy to make and, of course, totally delicious! This cake began with a desire to create something a little bit different for Mother’s Day…when you google Mother’s day recipes, the results are a little bit depressing – put it this way, there is a lot of salmon, Victoria sandwich cakes and petits fours! Not ... continue reading...
Coffee and Walnut Cupcakes
All the flavours of a coffee and walnut cake in cupcake form! These easy peasy Coffee and Walnut Cupcakes are quick and easy to make, super simple to decorate (even if you have no cake decoration skills!) and taste amazing. Coffee and Walnut Cupcakes What's your favourite kind of cake? I find that quite a hard question to answer... but coffee and walnut would have to be in my top 5, for sure! There is something almost magical about the combination of strong dark coffee, sweet ... continue reading...
Easy Creme Egg Brownies
Delicious, squidgy, fudgy brownies with half a creme egg nestled in each slice. Better still, this Easy Creme Egg Brownies recipe is quick and easy to make and only uses 6 ingredients! This blog post contains affiliate links, this means if you click on a link and go on to buy the product I recommend, I will get a small commission, but you will not be charged a penny more – thanks in advance! Easy Creme Egg Brownies I generally eat a healthy, balanced diet, but I do allow ... continue reading...
4 Eggcellent Easter Recipes and #CookBlogShare Week 15
I'm sorry - I can never resist a cheeky little pun, but these 4 Eggcellent Easter Recipes really are very good! :-D Plus find the linky for Week 15 of #CookBlogShare below. Yey, it’s nearly Easter! The kids are now on hols and I have been working like a mad thing these last few weeks, so I can take a bit of time off over Easter. We will no doubt do a little Easter baking, perhaps making some Mini Egg Rocky Road or some Mini Simnel Cakes…some craft for sure, and definitely an Easter ... continue reading...
Mini Egg Rocky Road
Need a super simple, 4 ingredient, no bake Easter treat that’s perfect for making with kids and takes less than 10 minutes to make? Then you have to try my easy peasy Mini Egg Rocky Road! Easter treats are everywhere at the moment…the internet is awash with stop stopping Easter cakes, Easter cupcakes, Easter brownies, Easter biscuits, simnel cakes, variations on the simnel theme…some of them are so impressive and all of them are making me seriously HUNGRY! Whilst I love gawking at all ... continue reading...
Mini Egg Brownies (Gluten Free)
A really easy recipe for gluten free Mini Egg Brownies that are deliciously fudgy and chewy on the inside and crunchy on the outside, stuffed full of little mini eggs - making them perfect for Easter! You can tell Easter is coming when the whole internet world explodes with chocolate…and variations on the creme egg and mini egg theme abound! Last year I had a lot of fun making this 5 Ingredient Creme Egg Chocolate Tart, so this year I thought I would have a play with mini eggs ... continue reading...
Easy Peasy 5 Ingredient Creme Egg Chocolate Tart
Want a quick and simple creme egg recipe? This Easy Peasy Creme Egg Chocolate Tart uses only 5 ingredients, takes just 10 minutes, looks impressive and tastes amazing! The perfect dessert for Easter celebrations. An Easy Peasy Creme Egg Recipe! There are A LOT of eggciting (sorry) creme egg bakes and makes out in the blogosphere at the moment. (If you want to see a selection of my favourites, check out my Creme Egg Recipes Pinterest Board) but quite a few of them are a ... continue reading...