Why Double Sultana scones If there’s one complaint I get from Darcey time after time it’s that there’s never enough sultanas in ANYTHING I make that contains them. Mainly this refers to cous cous. Have you ever put sultanas in cous cous? They’re a game changer. But when it comes to Double Sultana Scones I ..read more

This post contains affiliate links. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works I’m Still Making Baking Mistakes. Don’t you just love it when you go to make a tart using a new long thin baking tin and you make a complete flop of it? I … The post These Chocolate Walnut Shortcrust Finger Biscuits Were A Complete Mistake appeared first on Cakes Bakes And Cookies ..read more

These may not be the first choice when baking a birthday biscuit for the other man in your life… who’s turning 16! In fact, I don’t know why I decided to do this boozy cookie recipe for him but let’s just say he loved them! Does the raisin and oat ratio with the brandy make it a little more healthy and a little less boozy? I think not. How to ensure these boozie cookies work every time These are possibly the best cookies I’ve made and for one good reason. I took them out of the oven on time. I didn’t wait for the edges to brown or for that sugary scent to fill the kitchen. No, I took them out ..read more

Have you ever thought about baking your own digestive biscuits before? No, I hadn’t either till I decided to attempt to make a vegan cheesecake and couldn’t find the exact English digestive cookies to crunch up for the base so I decided to make my own – as you do! There’s nothing quite like dunking a digestive biscuit into a cuppa, – whether it has chocolate on or not. Normally when I bake a vegan biscuit it’s because I want my daughter Beau to be able to eat the same as us non-vegans. I’ll bake a sweet treat and then attempt to make a vegan version using substitutions but this time I made th ..read more

Rich, moist, and totally delicious. Oh my WORD! If I tell you that Mr MT came back time and time again for this cake you would understand why I’m saying this cake is deeelish! Without a doubt it’s the very best vegan chocolate cake I have ever made. But it was a total accident. The Accident I set out to make Beau a 20th Birthday cake. Yes, I know 20! I mean it feels like five minutes since I made her the Lego Sleepover cake and the tall penguin cake. Now she’s vegan it’s become my challenge to make a cake she loves that you would never know was vegan. Sometimes the substitutions are so out th ..read more

I like doing these individual cakes for birthday parties. It feels extra special for everyone to have their very own cake. Don’t you think? EmmaMT The Lego cake I decided that as there weren’t too many friends coming along to her cinema trip birthday celebration I would do what I did with her cake last year and make individual cakes for all the guests. One large purple Lego brick was for Beau and each friend had their own smaller (but still decent size) mini cake to take home. How to make a Lego cake The Cake Board To get the Lego look on the cake boards I tried out a few techniques but the o ..read more

Oh hello soft, gooey, deliciousness. Where have you been? I’m sure I’ve made these before but never with so much success. I think the secret ingredient is having the mental attitude of baking them for someone else. Or is that just me? The Hobnob search It all started when we bumped into my mother-in-law in the supermarket. She mentioned that she was on the hunt for the new coconut hobnobs. Have you seen them? They’re essentially a chocolate chip cookie with a coconut macaroon theme. Sounds good right? So good that they are literally sold out everywhere and at the time of writing this post are ..read more

Ahhh, These Low Cholesterol biscuits. I made these with a whole lotta love. My Poopah was told to eat a more low-cholesterol diet. So he didn’t have to miss out when he comes over to my house on a Friday night – with his sticky blue bag of veg and his freshly baked challah bread, I made some Poopah friendly treats. Guess what he said As he sat drinking his hot chocolate (which I make with the Nespresso milk frother so it’s most profesh! Chocolate sprinkles and all) I said “I’ve made these for you” He said “No thanks”. My mum just looked at him. I must have looked crestfallen. I’d made them es ..read more

This Tiramisu Cheesecake recipe This Tiramisu Cheesecake recipe has been in my head forever. I LOVE coffee and I LOVE Tiramisu. You know – the ones that come in family-size containers that go a bit soft and gloopy if you leave them out of the fridge. And you get a spoon and say you’ll only eat a line of those cocoa-covered squares, but your husband isn’t looking so you eat three rows! Yeah, those! Well, that’s exactly how I like my Tiramisu so this Tiramisu cheesecake recipe is the cheesecake version of that yumminess. This is an easy tiramisu cheesecake. The vegan version was not. When I se ..read more

These vegan lemon biscuits are quick, easy and seriously tasty This reciepe for Vegan zesty Lemon biscuits turned out even better than I hoped. They’re based on my melt in the mouth lemon butter biscuits so I had to swap out a few ingredients- namely butter, obvs and eggs. See how I did that below. Vegan butter alternative Usually, I swap out butter for a vegetable margarine, but recently I’ve been using Tomar. Tomar is also vegetable oil-based and is a Kosher block which my mum has used forever. She buys it in bulk from kosher supermarkets and freezes it – so, of course, I do the same. I get ..read more