It’s 5pm on Sunday afternoon when my darling child say “I want to take a birthday treat to school tomorrow” “But…. but… you said you didn’t want to take treats to school!” I stammer. “I know. But I changed my mind” he says with an angelic smile. “Of course you did, my darling, sweet, birthday […]
Our All Time Favourite Super Easy Cookie Recipes
Fancy recipes with special ingredients and twenty different steps are great when you have lots of time and motivation, but when it comes to baking I’m usually lacking in both of those things. I just want to cook something delicious, with the minimum of fuss, and these super easy cookie recipes are so simple that […]
Chocolate Cherry Cookies and Printable Holidays Tags
It’s that time of year again, the time when we start baking sweet treats to give as gifts. We are so lucky to have many people in our lives who we are grateful for, and a few homemade cookies or treats is a great way to say thank you. The first thing on baking list […]
Microwave Chocolate Chip Mug Cookies
I know I’ve been talking about the weather a lot lately, but when spring decides it really wants to be winter and you are faced with more rainy cold days than your sun deprived brain can cope with, talking about it is the only thing you can do to cope. Talk about it, and try […]
Banana Chocolate Chip Cookies
Just when we think there is a change in the weather and spring might actually arrive here, some gale force winds and a bit more rain turn up to change our minds. When the wild weather forced the kids inside we did the only thing we could do… Lego, vanilla milk, and banana chocolate chip […]
Chocolate Fudge Cookies
We tried on a new cookie recipe for size the other day. My big boy and I were looking for a chocolate cookie we could give as a gift, so we needed to be able to make a lot of them with little effort, they needed to be delicious, and, they needed to be wheat […]
Cornflake Cookies
There are some things that just take me back to my childhood in an instant – the smell of a real pine Christmas tree, the sound of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf played on a slightly scratched vinyl record, and the taste of my Mum’s cornflake cookies. As soon as I bite into one of […]
Easy Freezable Cookie Recipe
Do you need to make a lot of cookies, fast? This is such a simple recipe, it’s easy to adapt, and it makes a lot, and I mean a lot, of cookies, plus you can freeze the dough! With minimum time and effort you get a ton of freezable cookies. I first shared this recipe […]