Make this quick and easy snack/dessert cake using your favourite fruit. It is delicious with plums or apples but you could also use apricots, raspberries, or rhubarb! One of my favourite fruits to bake with would have to be plums. We have a blood plum tree that treats us to sweet juicy plums with a gorgeous dark red flesh. Come summer when it’s really too hot to be baking I’ll still be in the kitchen whipping up some yummy plum treats. My favourites are these Plum Muffins, this wonderful Plum Torte, and of course this delicious Plum Crumble. Last year the tree was so loaded with fruit we … [Read More...]
Links I Love from July
Today I’m sharing some of the cool links that I found during July. They are sure to inspire you to get baking and crafting! For this month’s Links I Love post I wanted to share a photo of one of the primulas growing in our back garden. I wanted to share it because we didn’t plant any primulas; some just came up by themselves! In fact it has been a few years since we have had any primulas growing in that part of the garden. We had some landscaping done in that area of the garden this time last year. So we are thinking that when the soil was disturbed it must have triggered a change in … [Read More...]
Free Printable Grocery Shopping List
A couple of years ago I bought a magazine that had a free shopping list pad included as a bonus. The shopping list pad stayed in a draw for a long time before I came across it again and started using it. I have been using it for my weekly grocery shop for a while now and I love it. This freebie shopping list was divided up into sections. They were logical supermarket layout type sections such … [Read More...]
Quick and Easy Vanilla Cupcakes
This recipe for vanilla cupcakes is just as easy as a boxed mix but they taste twice as good! I used to think that when you want to make a basic recipe such as a plain vanilla cupcake there was nothing easier than using a boxed mix. They don’t necessarily taste as good as homemade but they always seemed so much more convenient when you’re in a hurry. I changed my mind however when I came across … [Read More...]
