Soft Cinnamon Swirls

Hey Everyone! I'm back with an absolutely amazing recipe, maybe the best one yet from cupcakejemma!!! It is super soft cinnamon swirls! These are absolutely incredible and easy to make. You would be crazy not to make them!!! Ingredients: Dough 345g plain flour 60g caster sugar 1 tsp salt 7g instant yeast (or 9g of …

Blueberry Muffins

Hey Everyone! I'm back with another recipe. Today it's another classic: blueberry muffins. You can't go wrong with these, they're fluffy, moist and fruity. They are perfect with a cup of tea and as an added bonus your kitchen will smell divine! Ingredients for 12 muffins: 350 g plain flour 3 tsp baking powder 1 …

How to make Shortcrust Pastry

Hey everyone! The idea of making pastry from scratch seems to put fear in everyone's mind. We all just buy the ready made pastry because its less time-consuming and easier. I would agree it definitely is, but there is something so satisfying about making your own pastry. Todays recipe is for shortcrust which is probably …

Quick Mince Pie Recipe

Hey everyone, Finally, the classic christmas recipe... mince pies. These can be made extremely quickly, especially if you use ready made dough which you can just roll out straight away. I made my own pastry which I will put up a blog post about soon, but for ease buying pastry is ideal, especially for busy …

Chocolate Orange Cupcakes

Hey everyone! I'm back with another festive recipe and today it is chocolate orange cupcakes. I don't know about you but when I think of a Terry's Chocolate Orange I immediately think of Christmas. So here's a beautiful, rich cupcake with a luxurious chocolate cream cheese frosting.   Ingredients: 70g unsalted butter, softened 210g caster …

Gingerbread Cookie Recipe

Hey everyone! Sorry for not really being on my blog at the moment, studying for your A levels is a very stressful, hectic time. Anyway, I am back and starting off with a festive recipe of gingerbread cookies! These are probably one of my favourites types of cookies and I would probably take one of …

Autumnal Flapjacks

Hey everyone! Ok I know, I know I need to calm it with the apple recipes now but its autumn and it's apple season. I also just love any sweet treat with apple in. My recipe for today is amazing, truly amazing. It's apple, raisin and cinnamon flapjacks. They are great for this time of …

How to make Custard from Scratch

Hey everyone! For some reason making homemade custard has got a bad rep. Maybe because it's just so easy to buy the store bought version or because it's perceived that it is tricky to make well. To be honest making custard really isn't as big of a deal as people make it out to be. Yes …

Top Tips for getting through GCSE’s

Hey everyone! As someone who did their GCSE's last school year I feel like I can now tell you what I would to differently if I were to do them again. I am now beginning my journey in sixth form and I am realising how different A levels are in comparison. Anyway, I did quite well …

Apple Crumble Recipe

Hey everyone! I have been waiting to do this recipe since I started my blog because crumble is one of my favourite puddings, hence the second half of my blog name. I wanted to wait until apple season because not only is it a vaguely autumn themed post but also because I can use the …

Do’s and Don’ts of Painting with Watercolour

Hey everyone, I've got a slightly different style of post today but this is something I wanted to share with you. My favourite medium to work with in art is watercolour paint and I'll just say now it is a very difficult medium to work with. I don't think people realise this unless they try …

My Trip to Venice, Italy

Hey Everyone, Here we are, well in to the Autumn season and I have to say it is one of my favourite times of year. (Not just because my birthday is in the Autumn) but i just LOVE the colours of the trees at this time of year. Anyway, the countryside in the UK isn't …

Coffee and Walnut Layer Cake

Hey everyone, I was making a birthday cake this weekend as requested by my dad. I think I'm quite lucky that cake is all my parents want me to give them for their birthdays. It's really a win win situation because I love baking and my dad gets a present out of it as well. …

Ginger and Chilli roasted Salmon

Hey everyone, While making my dinner last night I was just free styling a little bit. But then I thought why not blog this? The result was delicious so why not let you guys know how to make it too. This is a chinese style salmon dish that I came up with and it's really …

A step by step guide for those of you with problematic skin

Hey everyone, As some of you would have realised I am not a beauty blogger so this sort of post isn't really what I usually do. But I thought that as I have had quite a few years of first hand experience in this area I thought I would give you all some tips on …

Mango Lassi Recipe

Hey everyone, Just a quick recipe today. For anyone who doesn't know, mango lassi is basically a mango milkshake without ice-cream but yoghurt instead. You may have seen this when you go to Indian restaurants. Just a disclaimer though, I'm not Indian so this recipe may not be completely traditional I just came up with …

My trip to the north of Scotland

Hey everyone, I thought I would share a few photos of my recent trip to the north of Scotland. It's incredibly beautiful there and I took a few really lovely landscape shots. One evening we were out on the boat and it was so perfect and still. The water looked like glass. But of course …

My thoughts on… Orange is the New Black

Hey everyone! So, 5 seasons each containing 13 episodes all lasting an hour, finished in a week. Thats right, about 65 hours of TV in seven days. Ahh what have I done with my life! I completely blame Netflix for this. By the time you finish an episode the credits have hardly started before there …

Travel Bucket List

Hey Everyone! Travelling to new places is always something that I really want to do, especially as I always go to the same places with my family. So I am desperate to get out there and see new things. In a moment of dreaming of all the places I will one day visit I purchased a …

Simple yet delicious spaghetti

Hey Everyone! For this post I am showing you how i make spaghetti with garlic, chilli and olive oil or the proper name spaghetti aglio, olio e peperoncino which you may recognise from going to Italian restaurants. This recipe contains only four ingredients and takes about 10 minutes. I can see that you might think …

My thoughts on… Animal welfare in Aquariums

Hey everyone! Last week I went on a trip to the London Sea Life Aquarium with my friend and I have to say it really got me thinking about how some of those animals (in my opinion at least) really shouldn't be there. In the shark tank, there are sting rays, huge sea turtles and …

Biscoff Cookie Cupcakes Recipe

Hey everyone, Here I am, back finally with another baking post and while having a quiet day in the house i decided to whip up a batch of cupcakes, but not just any cupcakes. Biscoff cupcakes! You know the little biscuits that come in the red packet when you order a coffee? Yep, thats them …

Travelling to new places

Hey everyone! I'm sorry for being so MIA for the past couple months, but there is a reason for this so let me explain myself. I have been travelling!!! This is very exciting for me because I have been going to the same place for about 5 years,  so i was incredibly happy to be …

The Mystery Blogger Award

Hey everyone! So I was nominated for my first awards by Bludgersandbroomsticks. Thanks for nominating me, I can't say I'll answer the questions very well but here it goes. The mystery blogger award was created by Okoto to try and get people to read and follow smaller bloggers. Here are the rules:  Thank whoever nominated you and …

Top Tips for the best cakes

Hey everyone! Just a quick post today, and I'm going to tell you my top tips for creating the fluffiest cakes and the best icing. I'll begin to do more recipes when my exams are over. Cream the butter and sugar for 5 minutes At the beginning of making your cake batter, a lot of …

I see humans but no humanity: Yulin Dog Meat Festival

I know this post doesn't quite fit the typical content of my blog, but everyone must understand the true brutality of what goes on. I just simply had to write a post on this, especially as the festival is only weeks away starting on June 21st. I don't even know where to begin as i am …

My thoughts on…The music of today

When the UK Top 50 comes to mind, my head just wants to turn my ears off. The majority of the pop music from the past couple years is just really bad. Now don't get me wrong I'm not saying this goes for all artists creating music in 2017. I really enjoy listening some artists …

Toxic friendships

Hey Everyone! Today I'm going to be talking about toxic friendships: how to spot them and how to deal with them. For three years I had a friend who I thought for at least the first year and a half she was great. To be honest in that time I think the friendship was real …

Chocolate Muffins Recipe

First of all I would like to apologise for the incredibly oddly shaped muffins that I have made. There is an explanation for this mistake. I hadn't realised until it was too late that I had let my friend borrow my muffin tin. So i had to make do and line the insides of a …

My favourite recipe books

  Hi Everyone, Today my post is about the recipe books that I use the most. Some of the recipes that I use are my own that I have created using inspiration from other recipes. But if I am not using my own, more often than not I will be using one of these recipe …