Category: Biscuits and Cookies
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Gluten Free Empire Biscuits
My absolute favourite biscuits ever in Gluten Free form! I love Empire Biscuits and can’t get enough of them. So when I planned to test out some GF recipes from Becky Excell’s fantastic books, my heart leapt with excitement when I saw she had created a recipe for Empire Biscuits. Although I am not GF…
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SmartCookieSam’s 2022 Round Up.🎂🍰🧁🥮
Happy New Year to all my friends and followers on here. I appreciate each and every one of you taking the time to read my posts and comment on them. Although my little blog is only a tiny corner of what’s on the internet, it really does boost and cheer me up when I see…
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Advent Baking- Christmas Foodie Treats
As usual December ends up being totally chaotic in SmartCookieSam land. This year I wanted things to be different as we had had a difficult time last year. Getting over the aftermath of a family bereavement, then Covid came to our house. But once again this year, life has been turbulent and stressful so during…
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Pinwheel Cookies #100bakeschallenge
Monday 12th September 2022 It’s now the second week back to school after the summer holidays. I work mornings only in a local school and this means that the afternoons is devoted to SmartCookieSam when it fits in round my family. This Monday afternoon, I finished work and headed home to catch up on some…
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Summer Baking Update
Hello everyone! I’m getting back onto my blog after a couple of month’s break. Blogging seems to have fallen by the wayside again. I just wanted to enjoy my summer without being tied to the computer. Now as I type, it is the first week of September and I am back to work in school.…
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Garibaldi Biscuits #100bakeschallenge
Do you like Garibaldi biscuits? I don’t care much for them, to be honest. I don’t know why I’m not that fussed with them and I love eating biscuits far too much! It’s not that they have dried fruit in them. Maybe it’s their texture. I don’t know. But at least they taste nicer than…
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Mary Berry’s Love To cook- Recipe book review.
It’s been a while since I’ve done a recipe book review. If you have a new book you would like me to review, do let me know! I love new recipe books and testing them out. Send them my way, I will only be too happy to help! This time I am reviewing Mary Berry’s…
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Lindor Mini Mint Truffle empire biscuits- National Mint Chocolate day.
It was National Mint Chocolate Bar on Saturday 19th February. As mint is my absolute favourite flavour for cakes and ice-cream, I had to create something to celebrate this day on the Foodie lovers calendar! I was actually in London all day on Saturday so my post is three days late. A very early start…
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Jammy Biscuits #100bakes
It’s now Monday 21st February and I’m on half term week this week. I am glad of the break and the catch up. It made me think about what half term was like last year and we were still in the third lockdown. The weather was definitely wet after all the snow had melted up…
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Empire Biscuits
I don’t know what it is about Empire Biscuits but I love them! I can’t even say why I love them but they’ve always been my favourite biscuit. Before I had the children, years ago you used to be able to buy them in my local Sainsburys from the bakery counter. Every Saturday we used…
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