It's not Christmas until you've had a mince pie! Today I'm sharing my budget homemade mince pies which are totally amazing if I do say so myself! They might not look like works of art but they're easy to make, don't cost a fortune and taste delicious!I've shared the recipe for my homemade mince pies below with the instructions on how to make my easy peasy sweet pastry recipe (see here where I used it to make jam tarts) but I am going to hold my hands up here and admit that I cheated today and used some ready rolled sweet pastry that I picked up in the Tesco reduced … [Read more...]
Autumn fruit crumble tarts to make your mouth water….
These delicious fruit crumble tarts are my favourite thing to make on an Autumn afternoon (or any afternoon for that matter) when I've got friends coming round as they're super simple to make, taste amazing and look pretty impressiveThis recipe for delicious fruit crumble tarts is honestly so flexible as you can use any fruit you want (or even a nice fruity jam at a push) to make them with and they always turn out amazing. You could even make a version at Christmas using mincemeat!How to make homemade fruit crumble tarts For the Pastry: 250g plain flour 125g butter, … [Read more...]
Homemade Cheesy Bread Buns….
This recipe for homemade cheesy bread buns is a super easy recipe that the kids will love to help with! Baking bread was always a favourite activity with my two when they were younger and even now, Master Frugal can always be tempted away from his Xbox if there's bread to be baked. Once a week, we'll have homemade pizzas for tea with the pizza base made by hand by one of the kids and we actually use the same recipe for bread buns as we do for our pizza bases so we don't even need to look now.These homemade cheesy bread buns are an old favourite of ours and seeing as … [Read more...]
Homemade flatbread – quick, easy and brilliant….
Homemade flatbread is amazing because it's so versatile as well as being so easy to make that my children can do it on their own. We have homemade flatbread with soup, made into mini pizzas, we use them as pocketless pitta bread filled with lovely fillings, as burger buns, wrapped around hot dogs, with scrambled egg and bacon on - you name it, we've probably served it with a homemade flatbread.We've always made this by hand rather than in our breadmaker for no other reason than it just feels like more of a rustic kind of recipe that should be made by hand and not by … [Read more...]
Delicious White Chocolate Chip Cookies….
I'm a huge fan of getting kids in the kitchen and teaching them to cook but from my own experience, the recipes they cook need to be fun, at least to start with. This recipe for my amazing white chocolate cookies is ideal because it's fun, easy to make and the results are brilliant.I haven't had too much time to experiment with new recipes lately so I've had to make do with dusting off some of our old favourites. This weekend, we made some of these lovely squidgy white chocolate chip cookies for the first time in ages and judging by how quickly they disappeared, it won't be long … [Read more...]
Homemade blueberry and banana muffins….
Today I'm sharing my recipe for amazing blueberry and banana muffins.**Spoiler Alert** You're going to LOVE them. ;-)Over the weekend, I had a couple of bananas and a punnet of blueberries that needed using up and the easiest way I could think of was by making some homemade blueberry and banana muffins. They were so delicious that everyone came back for more - I've even had to hide the last one for me to enjoy when I get in from work this afternoon!Bananas and blueberries are a great flavour combination and these muffins are so tasty that you'll definitely be making them … [Read more...]
