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 … [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 this vanilla cupcake recipe. Once you try this recipe you’ll say goodbye to the box mix and … [Read more...]
Easy Lemon Cake with Lemon Drizzle Topping (Almost a one bowl recipe!)
If you’re a fan of sweet lemon treats (like me) you are going to love this Easy Lemon Cake with its tangy lemon drizzle topping! I was looking through some old recipe books recently and I started drooling over this lemon cake. The book it comes from is called Fast & Simple (Parragon) and quite frankly that couldn’t be a better description of this recipe! I have made this cake twice over the last week because I wanted to make sure that this recipe wasn’t too good to be true. I mean it … [Read more...]
My Top Tips for a Deliciously Moist Christmas Cake
There is nothing better than tucking into a yummy piece of moist Christmas cake on Christmas Eve! Today I’m sharing a few tips to help you ensure that your Christmas cake turns out wonderfully moist and delicious! I was making my Christmas cake the other day and I realised that there are some things I do that are not in the recipe. They’re not vital to the cake making process but they do ensure that my Christmas cake turns out really moist. Most of the things I do are due to the advice … [Read more...]
3 Ingredient Fruit Cake
You are going to love this delicious and beautifully moist 3 ingredient fruit cake! It is such an easy recipe you will want to make it again and again! I have known that there was a recipe going around for a 3 ingredient fruit cake for a while but I haven’t got around to trying it until now. I copied this one down from the radio last year! So it has been in my ‘to do’ pile for a while! It's very similar to this recipe from Annabel Langbein. I think that I will definitely be making this … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Fruit Cake Recipe
Packed with plump, juicy fruit and sweetened with pumpkin and apricot nectar this Pumpkin Fruit Cake is a luscious snack cake that is almost irresistible! These days most people can be placed into one of two categories; fruit cake lovers or fruit cake haters. I myself am very much a fruit cake lover! I grew up eating fruit cake as a regular afterschool snack and in my family Christmas just would not be Christmas without a traditional Christmas fruit cake! Speaking of Christmas cakes, if … [Read more...]
Frosted Choc Orange Cupcakes
I love orange cakes and I love chocolate cakes, so when I had some spare oranges lying around I decided I just had to make some of these choc orange cupcakes. Actually the recipe that I adapted was for a single square choc orange cake but I turned it into cupcakes instead! Cupcakes seem a bit more special than just a slice of cake. I suppose it is because I used to enjoy lots of yummy cupcakes when I was a kid. More times than I can remember I used to come home from school and mum would have … [Read more...]
One Bowl Chocolate Walnut Cake
When you need a tasty chocolate cake in a hurry you can’t go past this One Bowl Chocolate Walnut Cake. Topped with walnuts this cake doesn’t even need icing! I have been craving chocolate cake lately! I know, I know I’m supposed to be counting calories but we all need to eat chocolate cake every once in a while! Don’t we? I know I do! :) I’ve been drooling over images on Pinterest just waiting for the perfect recipe to pop up. And when I mean perfect recipe I usually mean quick and easy. … [Read more...]
Hi, I'm Kaylene, and I'm a keen gardener,budding baker and wannabe DIYer!