Desserts

I’m soooooooooo excited about Chinese New Year!!! There are sooooo many things I want to make, and today we went to the chinese supermarket and I spotted the fresh water chestnut that they sell. So I thought I just HAVE to make some water chestnut…

A lighter, version of the traditional flapjacks, this one is butter free and refined sugar free! Perfect if you’re watching your diet.

It was Master Ashleigh’s 2nd Birthday yesterday, and we had a little party at home. Due to the size of our house, we couldn’t invite everyone we know to the party, but that’s probably a good thing as I don’t think I can make more…

Hi everyone, I hope you all had a lovely christmas! We had a fantastic time chilling, sledging, eating and playing! I will do another post for christmas. But for now, this is my first Fresh from the Oven Challenge! Since I haven’t got a sourdough…

Hehe… 3 more sleeps till christmas!!!!! Are you already everybody? Well we almost are! James managed to wrap my presents up today in Ashleigh’s and my absence, so now the tree is truly surrounded by presents. All this wintery weather is making everything magical too,…

Christmas is edging ever so close now, I can almost smell the turkey! 🙂 The thought (and need) of having little nibbles here and there is so overwhelming that, despite having mince pies and stollen piled up somewhere, I made some florentines tonight… hehe. And…

This is one of the things that I really really like and I always look at them sitting on the shelves in a nice patissiere, thinking ahhh I really want one but they’re a bit expensive… So! I thought I’ll try making them! And they…

Since Ashleigh goes to bed fairly smoothly lately, we have the luxury time of doing our own things after 8 o’clock. We can’t go out (well not both of us!) and we can’t really be partying downstairs, so tonight, James went for a run and…