My love for Collies, Cakes, Cooking, Eating Out & Days Out.
With Christmas little over a month away my mind has turned to festive baking. This Luxury Giant Mince Pie is a fabulous festive dessert that can be served warm with cream, ice crem or brandy butter. Or, you could just enjoy a slice cold as a cheeky treat. Follow my recipe below to create your own Luxury Giant Mince Pie.
For all you chocoholics out there, is there nothing better than a perfect
Chocolate Brownie? My Chocolate Brownie recipe is a hybrid of many recipes my husband went through when looking for a great Chocolate Brownie. After a few tweaks to a few recipes we hit the spot.
The standard recipe is for a great quality simple Chocolate Brownie but as it is Easter in a couple of weeks I have tweaked it again to make Easter Chocolate Brownies. Below is the original recipe and a few tweaks for other recipes…
Stir up Sunday is an annual tradition when you make your Christmas Pudding.
Usually the last Sunday in November which in the Anglican calendar marks the last Sunday before the start of Advent. When I was a little girl my Mum started to make her own Christmas Pudding and they were amazing. My own adult life always seemed too hectic and crazy so to make my own so I stuck to shop bought. That was until recent years when I was prompted to make my own. Continue reading “Christmas Pudding”
This recipe for Almond Macaroon Cake is my very first Cookbook Challenge. I 
love to bake a cake so it was an easy place to start. Not wanting to give myself a free pass I have chosen a cake I have never seen before. Also because I now call Scotland my home I wanted the first recipe to have a bit of Scottish history. Continue reading “Almond Macaroon Cake”
Saturday 15th September 2018 sees the Isle of Skye host the start of the “I
would walk 500 miles” walk in support of a second Scottish Independence Referendum. A friend of ours is having a stall at the start and asked if I would bake some Empire Biscuits for the stall. With my baking credentials, how could I refuse. Traditionally Empire Biscuits are decorated with half a glacé cherry or jelly sweet such as a jelly tot. However these Empire Biscuits are adorned with an edible Saltire Flag to support the dedicated walkers who are heading just over 500 miles to Edinburgh. Continue reading “Empire Biscuits”
I’ve read through recipes for Border Tart so many times but never actually
made one. Last year in Northumberland I ate the most delicious slice of Iced Border Tart in the Clock Tower Cafe in Bamburgh Castle and promised myself to get cooking. So today the time has come to make my own Border Tart .
Having recently moved house I found myself unpacking the pantry and unearthed my Bundt tin. Whilst I had it in my hand it seemed like an appropriate time to make a Bundt Cake, so here’s the recipe for my Cherry and Almond Bundt Cake.