I think one kitchen gadget that most people would love to own if they don’t already is a stand mixer. They look great and are fantastic for a multitude of baking scenarios from beating, whisking and kneading dough. Savisto is not a brand I’d heard much about before but am excited to try out their Retro Food Stand Mixer which …
Real Baking for Kids with the Great Baking Set & Cake Pops
With The Great Bristish Bake Off on our tv screens at the moment, it gives us all encouragement and motivation to head to the kitchen to bake up our own creations. My children both love this programme and it really inspires them to bake themselves and these children’s Real Baking kits have come just at the right time from Vivid …
Real Baking for Kids with Chocolate Pen & Cookie Kit
Children love baking, especially my two, so were excited to receive the Vivid Toys Real Baking range to try out. With four kits across the range, we started experimenting with the Chocolate Pen and Cookie Kit. The Chocolate Pen immediately appealed to my children as it seems they had seen it on TV and had really wanted it, so were …
Brown Sugared Vanilla Shortbread
Baking Mad is a recipe database website with endless pages of scrumptious looking things to make, all alongside mouthwatering pictures to tempt you into a spot of baking. It really is the place to go if you are looking for something to bake and I do like the way you can search with just a few key ingredients in mind. …
Let’s Bake by Cathryn Dresser – Book Review
Let’s Bake! by Cathryn Dresser, a former contestant of The Great British Bake Off, is a wonderful children’s recipe book with 52 different ideas to bake. The book is divided into seasons with recipes suited to Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter which come with step by step instructions worded in a fun and simple way. There are also a few …
Sugar and Crumbs – Review
Sugar and Crumbs sell an amazing range of naturally flavoured icing sugars and cocoa powders with intense bursts of flavour from using 100% natural fruit. My first thoughts on the ready flavoured sugars was how fantastic, no messing around trying to flavour the icing yourself, it’s all done for you. I did wonder how they’d taste so couldn’t wait to …
Secret Ready Brek Cookies
We love baking and I remember many years ago making Secret Cookies with Ready Brek. I knew my children would love these so thought we’d give them a go as something to occupy Miss M during the summer on a rainy day. Mister B wanted to assist too and insisted on wearing Miss M’s Hello Kitty apron rather than his …
Boutique Biscuits – My 1st Attempt!!
I’ve always admired those delicious looking iced biscuits that you find in boutique bakeries or on a cakestand for afternoon tea in a trendy cafe or top hotel. But unfortunately I didn’t have a clue how to recreate them in my own kitchen. I tend to stick to buttercream when icing cakes as it’s easy, tasty and you generally can’t …
Easter Baking ideas for children
We were challenged by izziwizzikids.co.uk to come up with an Easter activity video for children and decided we would love to do some baking as this is one of Miss M’s favourite pastimes. I wanted to keep the recipes really simple so that Miss M could really feel like she was baking on her own without mummy interfering every 2 …
Baking biscuits with Miko Cat and Miss M!!
Miss M has been desperate to play with all her Xmas/birthday presents particularly the messy creative ones (e.g Moon Sand) that are really unsuitable around Mister B. So when Mister B had a nap yesterday afternoon I agreed we could try out her new ‘Miko Cat Make and Bake Gingerbread Baking Set’. It came in a gorgeous solid cardboard case …