Churros recipe

Recipe: Churros with Chocolate Sauce

Hi Everyone, I know we haven’t done a recipe post in a while. I have been doing a lot of posts over at my baking blog Sugar Thumb and so, I thought I would show you one of them for the foodies out there. If you haven’t had churros before, they are a Spanish/Mexican snack  extremely easy to make. In [...] Read more »

Scotch eggs recipe

4 Foods

Today is all about trying new foods – things that we all think look and taste delicious but have never made ourselves… They are from some of my favourite food blogs and they are pretty easy recipes too! 1. Root Crisps If you want something quick and easy as a snack – why not make some beetroot crisps? 2. Scotch [...] Read more »

Double Chocolate cookies

Recipe: Trishas Double Chocolate Cookies

I have to admit, that while I like to get creative with most recipes from cakes and macarons to chicken and pies, when it comes to cookies, I have always stuck to the instructions… they are my Mount Everest so to speak. So, a couple of sundays ago, I decided to pluck up the courage to actually experiment with double [...] Read more »

Health foods

International Health Day: Food for Thought

It’s International Health Day tomorrow everybody. It’s time to start treating your body like a temple.. at least for the next 24 hours. Although I am a firm believer in indulging and I don’t think it is healthy or even possible to cut out the stuff we love to eat, whether it is cookies or cured meats. However, it’s never [...] Read more »

Homemade Pink Lemonade

Recipes: Homemade Pink lemonade

  So, despite the horrible downturn in the weather, Spring is on its way. And what could be more refreshing that a glass of chilled, homemade pink lemonade? Not much, I wager. Ingredients 6 whole lemons (rinsed) 1 tablespoon grenadine syrup 1/2 cup sugar 4 cups water (still) 1 cup crushed ice 1 lime Method 1. Put the sugar and [...] Read more »

Orange and chocolate cookies

Recipe: Our 5 Favourite Cookies

As an avid baker and cook, my main source of recipes and tips is the internet – fellow bloggers in particular. So, I wanted to share my favourite cookie recipes with you and give a shout out to some great resources as well! I have found some pretty delicious specimens of cookies all with something unique about them, that will [...] Read more »

Blueberry Cake

Recipe: Blueberry Cake

Good day everyone. I hope you are all ready for my favourite cake recipe yet! I used the blueberry cake recipe from The Hummingbird Bakery, but adapted it. One thing I would say as a baker who is slowly improving, is that you should always try and adapt recipes to make them a bit more you, or just simply to [...] Read more »

macarons

Recipe: Macarons

Makes: 16 Ingredients: Base: 110g icing sugar 60g ground almonds 60g egg whites (2-3 eggs) 40g sugar Few drops of lilac food colouring (mix red and blue if you don’t have lilac) Filling: 30g Nutella 30 g Cocoa Powder 100g icing sugar 40g butter (room temp.) Method: Base: 1. Preheat the oven to 170°C & prepare a baking tray by placing [...] Read more »

apple cupcakes

Recipe: Stewed Apple Cupcakes

  WeHeartHome© Hi bakers and sweet tooths! Ok, ok so maybe I’m a little bit cupcake mad… but I just love how cute they look and how you can easily do anything with them! This week I had a hankering for my mum’s apple crumble, but I knew my flatmates wouldn’t be keen on something as exotic as crumble… So [...] Read more »

Valentine Cupcakes

Recipe: CupidCakes

Its been a while since we published a recipe, so I thought it was about time. This cupcake is my own personal creation without the aid of any other recipe… and I have to say I’m pretty proud of how it turned out! I call them CupidCakes in ode to Valentine’s day! My CupidCakes came to realisation thanks for Sybille [...] Read more »