It’s been a busy weekend baking at home with kids. Henry wanted to make his banana cake again with me (read more here) and it was time for another ‘fruit of the Spirit’ cupcake with Abby. But, as you may have read last weekend, Abby wants to re-visit a number of our successful recipes as […]
Henry and his banana cake
For those of you keeping up with these posts, you will realize that most of these are all about what Abby and I get up to in the kitchen, for Mummy-Abby time. Well, Henry surprised me yesterday by saying he wanted to make something with me. A few months ago he decided to get creative […]
‘Patience’ lemon blueberry cupcakes
This one has been a while in the making. Abby and I were baking a batch of cupcakes every weekend there for a while, and then Christmas happened. And New Year. And then going back to school and work just made us both really tired. And then there were the Star Wars movies to watch […]
Christmas baking for neighbors
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas (sung in a nice Bing Crosby-style voice … not really!). And this year, due to all the other baking and cooking and entertaining we have been doing recently, I wasn’t going to bake cookies for the neighbors. But then, they kept bringing us Christmas gifts, so I […]
‘Joseph’ chocolate orange cupcakes
It was the weekend again … and another batch of cupcakes. Originally we were going to do a lemon blueberry cupcake (I think) but I found some blood oranges in the grocery store and bought them. It was an accident – I thought they were normal navel oranges, until I had one and found a […]
‘Love’ red velvet cupcakes
Another in the series of the Fruits of the Spirit cupcakes. This week’s installment – Love. Well, it originally came from a red velvet cupcake winning entry on Cupcake Wars (obviously), but what else could this be, but love? I found a recipe for gluten-free red velvet cupcakes (which was basically a normal recipe but […]
‘Holy is the Lord’ cupcakes
Another weekend. Another batch of cupcakes. This time it was my idea. Based on the fact that the cereal I had specifically bought for Abby … she didn’t like. This was a cereal that was gluten, dairy, nut and other allergen-free, with a lot less sugar than the normal cereals. Abby said they tasted like […]
‘Kindness’ chocolate raspberry cupcakes
After last week’s … interesting (!) concoction of cupcake (read here), Abby and I thought we’d get back to what we knew best. Cupcakes. Chocolate cupcakes to be exact. And what could we add to chocolate to make it awesome? Why, raspberries of course! This was another in our series of converting a cake recipe […]
‘Ruth’ savory cornbread muffins
This week’s cupcakes were … interesting. Abby’s idea was to have savory cornbread muffins, with a savory cream cheese frosting, again from one of the winning cupcakes on Cupcake Wars. Yeah … it was a winner on there, but I don’t think we followed what they did quite close enough. The cornbread muffin was easy […]
‘Peace’ banana toffee cupcakes
Another in the series of Abby’s cupcakes. Banana toffee cupcakes, with a peace symbol on top. Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Well, we learnt a lot about toffee this weekend! We tried to make toffee ourselves. Looking at recipes on the internet it looked pretty easy – mix equal portions of butter (or margarine) with sugar […]