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...]
Yum Yum Balls (also called Kids Rum Balls!)
These Yum Yum Balls take me back to my primary school days! They remind me of kid’s parties and sleepovers because that’s when I remember eating them. Mum never made these at home so they were such a treat when going to friends’ houses! A few years back I was reminded of these yummy treats and went looking for the recipe without any luck. Turns out it was because I was looking for rum ball recipes instead of the yum yum balls recipe. I thought that was what they were called when I was a … [Read more...]
Ham and Cheese Puff Pastry Quiche
This Ham and Cheese Puff Pastry Quiche will be the star of the show at your next big get together. Very easy to make, and versatile to boot, this quiche is delicious as a main dish or appetizer, plus it’s also perfect for breakfast or brunch! I have made this quiche several times now; it is one of those recipes that once you have tried it you know you will definitely make it again. I first made it in early December and it was so good that I just had to make it again for a Christmas party. I’ve … [Read more...]
Chocolate Brown Sugar Cookies (with Coconut!)
If you’re a lover of all things chocolate and coconut then you need these Chocolate Brown Sugar Cookies in your life! Quick and easy to make they will have your sweet choc coconut cravings satisfied in no time! I didn’t know what to call these cookies when I first made them. I adapted the recipe from a caramel slice base that I made recently. The slice had a biscuit base and when I tasted it I thought “gee that would make a great cookie mix”! The original recipe didn’t have any chocolate in it … [Read more...]
Quick and Easy Strawberry Oat Muffins
You’re going to love these Strawberry Oat Muffins because they are quick and easy to make, freezer friendly, and SO delicious. They’re great for breakfast, dessert, or as a snack! I had a visitor to the blog a few weeks ago that asked me about my Plum Oat Muffins recipe. This person wanted to know if they could use frozen plums in that recipe instead of fresh ones. It wasn’t something that I had thought about until then but I was sure that frozen fruit would work! I really wanted to try it … [Read more...]
Soft and Sweet Meyer Lemon Crinkle Cookies
The old saying is that when life gives you lemons you make lemonade. I think that my new saying will be that when life gives you Meyer lemons you HAVE to make these Meyer Lemon Crinkle Cookies! I LOVE sweet lemon recipes! Only recently I shared a delicious Lemon Drizzle Cake with Drizzle Topping. That recipe used regular lemons but this time I want to share a Meyer lemon recipe. We’ve got a dwarf Meyer lemon tree in a pot and it is such a great producer. Every year we get about 20 lemons from … [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...]
Hi, I'm Kaylene, and I'm a keen gardener,budding baker and wannabe DIYer!