Category: baking and other recipes
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Birthday cakes – 2021-2022
It’s been a while since I blogged about birthday cakes! In fact we’ve had 8 birthdays since then, so here are all the cakes that the children all asked for… Andrew’s 10th birthday He has always been into science and maths. He’d been learning some complicated chemistry with my parents online over lockdowns, and his…
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Birthday cakes – 2020
Well what a weird year of birthdays that was! Andrew had a normal birthday in January, but the twins’ and Joel’s birthdays later in the year were in the first lockdown and with other tight restrictions on what we could do. Andrew’s 9th birthday He wanted a plain vanilla cake, with vanilla buttercream icing and…
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Birthday cakes – 2012-2017
As I think ahead to the new year, one of the first things we need to organise is celebrating Andrew and Tom’s birthday (on the same day!) Each year, much of my thought and time goes towards baking and decorating the cake for Andrew. I shared some of my creations a few years ago on…
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Just a plain 2nd birthday cake
I know, it’s a bad pun, but it had to be said, particularly as Andrew has made that mistake between plain and plane in the past leading to some funny situations. When I was trying to decide what kind of cake to make Joel for his 2nd birthday, I had a few options: different kinds…
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Stone cakes
You may be thinking that these are somehow related to rock cakes. They’re not. The name came about when Granny made some cakes a while ago that she filled with jam and cream, and so when Andrew came to ask what they were called, she said “well, I guess we could call them scone cakes…
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Crispy cereal biscuits
When it was pouring with rain one afternoon last week, and we’d already been out in the morning, I decided that a spot of baking was the best choice of activity, and Andrew enthusiastically agreed – he always does when there’s food at the end of an activity! I flicked through a recipe book that…
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Tasty slow cooked kedgeree – #ShortcutEggsperts
One food stuff that you’ll always find in our fridge is eggs. Most of the time they get used for baking before I get round to using them for anything else, but they do come in handy for main meals too. Scrambled egg goes down well with the boys for lunch (or even breakfast when…
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Peanut Australian-themed biscuits
For his birthday, Andrew was sent some cookie cutters all the way from Australia, from his Great Uncle and Great Aunt who live out there. The cutters are in the shape of Aussie animals (kangaroo, koala and crocodile) and one is in the shape of the country itself. As we hadn’t done any baking for…
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Birthday cakes – ‘3’s and a crowd
I still can’t quite believe that Andrew and Tom share a birthday. I know it’s a 1 in 365 possibility, but still, that seems quite small to me. This year is particularly cool because they are 3 and 30 on the same day. To celebrate, we had a family weekend with all four of the…
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Mince pies with a twist
As it’s practically dark by the time the boys are awake from afternoon naps and we’ve got ready to go out, we can’t go to the park or even in the garden really, so baking and craft activities have been filling our late afternoons and early evenings recently. And as we’re in December, I thought…
Life Down Purple Lane 