This slightly spiced plum yoghurt cake is one of my favourite summer time cakes. The plums make it slightly tart, but the cake is sweet and spiced with Pepper & Me Bakers Blend! I love to serve it with natural yoghurt and a good cup of coffee! I have decorated with cake with freeze dried raspberries and dried rose petals. Print PLUM CAKE This sweet, spiced yoghurt cake is the perfect moist summery cake when you have plenty of plums in season!  Alternatively you can use drained black doris can plums or other stone fruits!  Don’t forget the Pepper & Me Bakers Blend be ..read more

Inspired by my friend Jane of Behind the Blush Door and her blog post listing all of her AliExpress finds! If you don’t follow Jane yet you must! Not only is she a lovely soul, her house is dreamy and shes the ultimate bargain hunter! So I thought I would share some of my favourite AliExpress bargains! Hopefully you will find some goodies from this list and please let me know of anything you have found that you love!! I have tried all of these items and are quite happy with them especially for the price I paid for them! Remember when I shared this post on instagram I had so many people ask ..read more

I have a thing for scones, I think because you can easily whip them up and it’s totally acceptable to serve them with lashings of butter! These date and orange scones are perfect for serving warm when you have guests coming around or that weekend treat! Scroll down for the recipe which you can print off or pin to pinterest to save the recipe for later. Print DATE & ORANGE SCONES The perfect sweet weekend brunch scone recipe, serve warm with lashings of butter! Course Appetizer Keyword Afternoon Tea, Appertizer, Baking, Date, Morning Tea, Orange, Scones, Sweet Prep Time 15 minutes Aut ..read more

These Plum cheesecake truffles are amazing!!  The kind of dessert for Christmas that I could keep going back for that’s not sickly sweet but has enough flavour to make your taste buds happy!  These are the cheats version of making and setting a cheesecake, so easy and so quick to make! I personally love the layers of flavour beginning with the gingery cream centre, the tart but sweet plum then the hint of creamy sweet white  chocolate!  Make these to serve for Christmas dessert, take to a Christmas party or give as a edible gift! PLUM CHEESECAKE TRUFFLES Makes 20 truff ..read more

I love this Taco Salad for dinner (and leftovers for lunch haha!)  Its a easy throw together dinner packed with flavour! I hope you enjoy this recipe and if you make feel free to tag me on instagram so I can share it!!   TACO SALAD This is one of my fave all in one salad dinners!  The flavours, textures and freshness are the perfect combination! Chilli Con Carne Olive oil 500 g premium beef mince Brown onion (finely chopped) 2 cloves garlic (crushed) 2 Tablespoons tomato paste Can crushed tomatoes 1 teaspoon paprika 2 teaspoons Pepper & Me italian stallion or dried orega ..read more

I’m so excited to share with you my very first Christmas ebook resource!! This Christmas ebook is all about creating a magical Christmas for you and your family! I have made it super easy for you and compiled some of my favourite Christmas recipes and activities I do for my family in the lead up to christmas!Don’t worry there are plenty of easy ideas and recipes!  Most of the the recipes and ideas are totally adaptable to your creative interpretation! I wanted to create resource where you can find everything you need in one place to save you hours of research! This Christmas ebo ..read more

This is another version of my classic cinnamon brioche but taken to another level! I personally love the sweet caramel flavour with a hint of cinnamon and the texture of the buttery macadamia nuts! Bake it over the weekend and serve it with coffee with people you love!! If don’t have Caramilk you can of course use white chocolate or x2 blocks of Whittakers West Coast Buttermilk Caramelised White Chocolate. This week I’m giving away two blocks of Caramilk chocolate, one on Instagram and one on Facebook! Pop over to both to enter and make your own Caramilk + Macadamia Brioche, which is too die ..read more

This Mexican Layer Dip has been my ‘go to, easy take a plate’ dish which is great over summer for bbqs and parties!  For these photos I made it for my annual Halloween party but you can layer is so avocado isn’t on the top but cheese is and of course it can be for any occasion! Just layer up all these goodies and set it in the fridge for at least two hours, then serve with loads of corn chips!!   Don’t forget to pin the top image to save it to Pinterest or print out the recipe below! Enjoy! MEXICAN LAYER DIP This is a great ‘take a plate’ dish that everyone loves! I always se ..read more

I have had ‘make homemade washing powder’ on my list for so many years it’s embarrassing!! This week I finally made it and I was scoffing at how fast and easy it is!!! Like why haven’t I done this earlier??  Oh well now I will be doing it more! I really wanted to test out the washing powder before sharing it, and I’m pleasantly surprised! It washes beautifully and the clothes are coming up clean! I had quite a few people asking me to share the washing powder recipe, so here it is: Feel free to pin the above recipe to Pinterest to save it for future reference!  You could use ..read more

I came up with this idea to make Jammy Cookies (think shrewsbury’s) to bake to donate to our School fundraiser and Halloween party – Halloween Hooley. Scroll down to print off this Halloween Jammy Sugar Cookie recipe or save it to your Halloween Pinterest board! I remembered I had some mini Halloween cookie cutters I bought years ago so I dug them out (I did collect cookie cutters at one point, urghhh I know but it’s actually been so handy!). I also had a round scallop edge round cookie cutter (that I think I bought at a opp shop, another great place to look out for these kinds of things ..read more