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...]

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...]

This super easy muffin recipe is EXACTLY what you need to up your muffin game! What if I told you that I had a super easy muffin recipe that you can use as a base for all your favourite sweet muffin flavours?What if I then told you that this super easy muffin recipe freezes really well so you can make a week's worth of packed lunch treats in one go?Would you be excited?  Have I whipped you up into a muffin frenzy yet?Feel free to roll your eyes at this point but in my defence, I'm sat here eating one of the muffins that I made earlier and it really is delicious. … [Read more...]

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...]