I had a request from someone to show how to make White Chocolate & Cranberry Cookies, as that person wished to make some to take into work at Christmas time. I hadn’t made the cookies before so I thought it would be something I could try. These are a lovely soft cookie, with a slight […]
Who doesn’t enjoy a nice shortbread biscuit? Not many people I am sure. Add some dried cranberries into the mix and you have a really lovely biscuit, with the shortness of the buttery biscuit and the fruitiness of the blueberries. I have made these before, but with dried blueberries. This time I thought I would […]
I read a wonderful recipe in the New York Times, for some blueberry muffins made with whole grains. I wanted to try this out, but I prefer cranberries in muffins, so I adapted the recipe to suit that taste. I reduced the volumes of the various ingredients as well, since I didn’t need so many […]
I decided to try out a new tea loaf recipe today. I so enjoyed the Bara Brith – Welsh Tea Loaf that I made last week that I wanted to do it again. But this time I wanted a variant, that didn’t include candied peel, since some people don’t like that. Mixed dried fruit, in […]
Today I made some biscotti, with a bit of a nod to Christmas. Dried cranberries and flaked almonds together with the zest and juice from clementines is what flavours them. I found the recipe on Laurainthekitchen. Although the recipe makes thinner sausages of dough than I am used to with biscotti I followed the instructions, […]
I found a lovely recipe for Sour Cream and Cranberry Muffins on Midwest Living. Reading it just made me want to make them immediately. I had to wait though, until I could buy some more cranberries. So today I set about making them. Sour Cream & Cranberry Muffins The recipe calls for pumpkin pie spice […]
I had an idea for some flapjacks, a lovely oat, butter and golden syrup cake. I had some dried blueberries and cranberries which I felt sure would taste so good in a flapjack. Then I thought about covering them with white chocolate. In the end I decided that might be too much white chocolate so […]
Looking in the cupboard to see what was available I found a few things that I thought would be good together in a nice biscotti biscuit. I love biscotti, the twice baked biscuits that are an ideal accompaniment to tea or coffee. So with some pistachios, flaked almonds, raisins and dried canberries I was all […]
Catching up on The Great Briitish Bake Off, having recorded the show while I was on holiday, I saw this bread being baked by one of the contestants. It looked quite delicious, so I thought I would try to make it. The recipe is on BBC Food. The instructions were easy to follow and since […]