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Raspberry spice cake recipe. Lemon biscuits recipe. Cranberry, White Chocolate & Oat Biscuits — eat, little bird. In a perfect world, my biscuit tin would be constantly stocked with homemade biscuits and cookies, ready for those moments when I sit down to my afternoon cup of tea or when friends and neighbours drop by unexpectedly.

Cranberry, White Chocolate & Oat Biscuits — eat, little bird

Unfortunately, my full-time job often prevents the opportunity for frequent baking during the week, something which I try to make up for over the weekend. I know that dried cranberries are available throughout the year, but somehow it seems more fitting to use them when Christmas is around the corner. I started off making a simple shortbread and then added my current seasonal favourites – dried cranberries, white chocolate chips, oats and lemon zest.

The following recipe is the result of my experiment. The lemon zest brings a bright, zingy flavour to the biscuits which I liked, and the oats provide added texture and crunch, though you are welcome to leave them out. As luck would have it, I had friends pop by the following day for an afternoon tea. Makes about 30 biscuits. A Mothers Ramblings: Prize Winning Wheat Free Cupcake Recipe. During July, Top Ender and Baby Boy entered English Mums Bake Off in the Children's section with their Wheat Free Fairy Cakes. A few days back Heather from Eggs Cream and Honey (don't you just love that as a name?) Who was judging the competition announced the winners and to our surprise Top Ender and Baby Boy won! We thought that it would only be fair that we share the recipe with you, so that you could recreate the winning Children's entry if you wanted!

Ingredients 6oz Butter 6oz Caster Sugar 3 Eggs 1/2tsp Vanilla Extract 6oz Self Raising Flour (we use Doves Farm) 5 tbsp Milk Method Preheat the over to Gas Mark 6. Put the cake mix into paper cases, roughly half fill the cases and then bake for ten to fifteen minutes. This was originally a recipe that we took from a Doves Farm Flour Packet, but I am sure they won't mind me sharing it with you. Olympic Torch Cake Cones. It’s not easy to be a torch bearer.

Olympic Torch Cake Cones

You have to be nominated and only 8000 people in the UK were chosen this year. Oh, and you have to be inspirational…or something. Then, you get to run around and try not to be the klutz who drops it, since you will invariably be photographed as a symbol of national pride. No one wants to be the guy who dropped the torch. No one. These “torches” are much easier to handle…and much tastier! Olympics 2012 cake ideas. Unbelievably easy mince pies recipe. Nutty orange and parsnip cake recipe.