Just a quick hello...

...to say I am still here, but have had a very busy couple of weeks, including almost a week away...hence the lack of new recipes and posts on the blog...
However, I do have some garden updates in the pipeline (the tremendous amount of rain we've had has done all sorts to the garden and veggies!!) and am baking another, different Herman tomorrow (all will be revealed then)...plus with school going back this coming week there will be lunch box bakes (still deciding what to do) to make and bake...so am hoping all will become as it was...and the blog will have posts aplenty in the coming weeks...
Keep watching and tuning in...xx

The Best Brownies...

...that I have made in a while...and I make quite a few!!!

But some things just do go right...

...like these amazing Triple Chocolate Crackle Cookies...

Children's Choice...

After Alex had the choice of what I would bake for the lunch boxes the other week, it was only fair that Emily got to choose something too...so the trusty "500 Cookies" came out to play...and this is what she chose....

All things BRIGHT and Bundt-iful...

I decided to brighten up the rather grey days we've been having lately, by experimenting with the new Wilton food colouring gels I got a little while ago...I was going to make these wonderful rainbow cookies, but time was of the essence, so I decided on a creation of my own...well, a 'tweak' at least!!! (the cookies will have to wait a couple of weeks)...Seeing as my two smallish people love bundt cakes now, I decided to 'tweak' Nigella's Spruced-Up Vanilla Cake once more..(I do believe it is becoming a new family favourite...)

 After making the original cake batter recipe, I split the mix into 6 bowls...

...then the fun started!! Into the 6 bowls went some of the fantastic gel colourings... 

Mondays...with a bit of baking thrown in for good luck...

Mondays in our house tend to take a similar path each week...School run (always), supermarket (most Mondays), washing (does it ever end!), tidying (again...does it ever end??!!), catch up with emails, blog etc (if I have time)..dinner prep (definitely), a bit of baking (maybe), some sewing (if I'm lucky!)...school run (essential), dinner (goes without saying), cubs and guides (most Mondays), bedtime routines, grown-up time...and then we hit Tuesday...for the next 5 weeks or so, I am gong to be working Tuesdays and Wednesdays, so blogging will have to come either side...


But right now, let's concentrate on today...

Melting Moments...Lunch Box Bakes #3

Part of the busy weekend was spent baking...as usual! The cookies that were baked earlier were devoured on Brighton Beach as an afternoon snack, so something was needed to fill the gap in the lunch boxes!! Enter new cook book number one! 500 Cookies...

There was only one thing I could do...bake some cookies!!

Lunch Box Bakes...#2

Here we are the weekend already, and I need to think about what is going into lunch boxes for the week ahead...so...following on from the Gooey Brownie Traybake, the other favourite for the lunch box snack is home-made cookies.

Lunch Box Bakes...#1

...I always used to buy what we would call 'snacks' for the lunch boxes in my life...but these days I prefer to bake, and the smallish people prefer my baking!!! To the point where they now moan if I want a day off and offer to buy something instead!! I shouldn't complain, but hey I'm a Mum :-)


There are two definite favourites in our house, traybake brownies and cookies...Both of which come from a variety of sources and like so many of the things I make and bake become 'tweaked' and merged and take on a life of their own!