Mint Green Food Processor

Happy Birthday Blog, and Happy New Year!

Happy 1st Birthday blog!

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year, have a wonderful evening tonight whatever you are doing!

Tamsyn x

Festive Baking

Hello everyone!

As promised, here are some snaps of the mini mince pies I made yesterday with my little boy.  It gave me the perfect opportunity to try out my beautiful vintage baking tins and wire cooling rack I bought in the summer from a car boot fair.  The pies seem to have gone down very well too!

Tamsyn x

Rock Cakes

Hello everyone!

When I was a little girl, my mum had the loveliest plastic recipe box, with recipe cards for every occasion.  There were many that become firm family favourites, and some that stand out in my memory were the following - Christmas Cake, Pineapple Upside Down Cake and Rock Cakes.  I loved Rock Cakes, I have sepia tinged memories of eating them in the kitchen, always in the winter, with my brother.  And they tasted so good.  So the other day I decided that I had to find a recipe for these retro delights, and bake them for the children.  My son, who is five, is an enthusiastic cake chef, more for the licking of wooden spoons and the finished article rather than the actual process, but he put his apron on and joined in with great gusto.  These are fun to make with kids, as they get to rub the butter into the flour and sugar to make a breadcrumb mixture, then mix milk in to make a dough before spooning it onto a baking tray.  They are a doddle to make.  They are lovely on a rainy Saturday afternoon, with a glass of milk, in front of a movie.  I used this recipe here.  Enjoy!

Tamsyn x

Chocolate Rocky Road

Pretty pastels...

Rest, Recovery and Baking...

 My little boy, who is four, was ill this week.  He had two days off school, and after re-organising my work schedule (the beauty of running your own business) it was quite nice having my little friend at home with me.  I was even able to work on some pieces of furniture for the business whilst he snuggled on the sofa...he was so exhausted that he pretty much stayed there all day.