Sunday Recipe – BEST Lemon Drizzle Cake Recipe
Mar27

Sunday Recipe – BEST Lemon Drizzle Cake Recipe

Thanks to the Archers, I’ve been wanting one of these all week. And today, feeling rather *cough* fragile (in a gin-and-dancing induced fashion), I succumbed. Oh, the joy. The sheer heavenly perfectness that is Lemon Drizzle Cake. Be careful though – one slice is just never enough. With a large mug of tea (and a hangover *ahem* ), TWO slices may not do it either. *supposedly* Serves 10… (yuh. right.) Prep Time...

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Sunday Recipe – School Dinners Jam and Coconut Sponge Squares.
Mar20

Sunday Recipe – School Dinners Jam and Coconut Sponge Squares.

One of my own personal favourites, and as usual so easy you can whip it up yourself or easily cope with small helpers too. My bigger helpers can manage this one on their own. Of course, tray bakes are ideal for school/cubs/scouts/brownies/guides cake requests, but just as good when feeding a hungry horde. If you’re doing this one the proper school dinner way, it MUST be served with a lashing amount of thick custard of choice...

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Sunday Recipe – quick and easy Cheats Lasagne
Mar13

Sunday Recipe – quick and easy Cheats Lasagne

I very nearly didn’t post this – I hadn’t ever really considered it a ‘recipe’. But I mentioned it in passing to a friend and she “oooh-ed!” in glee at my genius, and went away and made it. So I mentioned it to another friend in the playground – three Mums overheard and there was a collective “OoooH! I know what I’M cooking for tea tonight!” from them, too. So –...

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Sunday Recipe – Easy (and lush!) Carrot & Pineapple Muffins
Mar06

Sunday Recipe – Easy (and lush!) Carrot & Pineapple Muffins

This recipe is one of those I have jotted down on a scrap of paper, copied from a friend who had it from a friend… it never ever fails. (eta – I have since discovered this is actually an  Annabel Karmel recipe from her book Complete Party Planner) Fably muffin-recipe-easy, and the only way I can get Jolly to voluntarily eat ANY kind of carrot. And they are so moist too; they never need storage instructions because they...

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Sunday recipe – School Dinners Chocolate Concrete
Feb27

Sunday recipe – School Dinners Chocolate Concrete

This is the recipe the Husband has been asking and asking for. Remember it? A hunk of hard chocolate deliciousness, smothered in the custard of choice. Happily, it’s so flippin EASY to make, it’s not really any wonder we all had it so often. I make it with a certain Pink 4yr old, and am only allowed to do the heavy mixing bit. It still takes less than ten minutes to get it into the oven.   So – here it is, the...

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Pink Custard Recipe – 80s School Dinners Recipes
Jan30

Pink Custard Recipe – 80s School Dinners Recipes

Hands up who’s here for the real genuine 80s school dinners pink custard recipe! What was it with pink custard? Lusciously gorgeous in colour and texture and comfort factor – and universally adored. Pink custard just made any school dinners pudding a real treat, no? Remember the sponge squares with a thin layer of jam and coconut on top? Or fudge tart squares (produced further to mucho requests from cornflake tart eaters)?...

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