Category: Cupcakes, Muffins, Buns and Scones

• November 2022 Baking Round Up.

  November has been a month of two halves . I baked at the beginning and the end but the middle two weeks I couldn’t bake at all and had to limit my time in the kitchen. To someone who loves cooking and baking, this was hard. We were having a new kitchen floor laid and […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  December 1, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Cakes and Muffins, Chocolate Treats, Classic and Traditional Cakes, Cupcakes, Cupcakes, Muffins, Buns and Scones, Food and Drink, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

  autumn, baking, birthday cake, biscuits, brownies, cake, cakes, chocolate, chocolate chips, cookies, cupcakes, dessert, family, teatime, teatime treats, traditional, traybake, traybakes, white chocolate

• October 2022 Baking Round Up

  

  Once again I’ve not kept up to date with my blog, even though there has been several attempts to write posts over the last few weeks. It’s the same with my Facebook page. There’s always something which gets forgotten about and neglected. So this post is rounding up what has been made in the SmartCookieSam […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  November 3, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Bundts, buns, Cakes and Muffins, cheesecake, Chocolate Treats, Classic and Traditional Cakes, Cupcakes, Cupcakes, Muffins, Buns and Scones, Desserts and Puddings, Food and Drink, Hot Puddings and Desserts, Large and Celebration Cakes, No Bakes

  #100bakeschallenge, #100bakeschallengeposter, afternoon tea, baking, birthday, biscuits, cakes, cheesecake, Colin Caterpillar, cookies, Empire biscuits, gingerbread, gingerbread people, halloween, Party Rings, Percy Pigs, pumpkin cookies

• Blueberry Muffins- #100bakeschallenge (24)

  

  After the Raspberry and White Chocolate Muffins went down well the other week, I’ve not made any more muffins since. Such a shame as they’re so easy to make. So different to shop bought in size and in terms of sweetness. These muffins are perfect for a breakfast on the go or a snack with […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  June 6, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Cupcakes, Muffins, Buns and Scones, Uncategorized

  baking, blueberries, blueberry muffins, breakfast bakes, comfort food, easy bakes, family friendly, muffins

• Salted Caramel Pretzel Cupcakes

  

  On Tuesday I baked some Salted Caramel Pretzel Cupcakes. One of those flavours that was around everywhere a few years ago and it still is popular with lots of people. It’s been a while since I’ve made anything salted caramel related, though. Tuesday 5th April was Caramel Day according to My Legoman’s Foodie Days Of […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  April 7, 2022

  Cupcakes, Cupcakes, Muffins, Buns and Scones, Foodie Days Of

  baking, birthdays, buttercream, caramel syrup, cupcakes, Flipz Salted Caramel Pretzels, Icing Nozzles, Lakeland Get a Grip Piping Bags, Monin Sugar Syrups, My Legoman, National Foodie Days Of Calendar, salted caramel, salted caramel cupcakes, Sugar and Crumbs Salted Caramel Icing Sugar

• #100bakeschallenge: Raspberry and white chocolate muffins (Muffin Monday!)

  

  Did you know that Muffin was my nickname as a little girl? I think it was my Dad who called me that as apparently I couldn’t say Samantha properly and it came out something like “Muffind”! Or maybe I was like Muffin the Mule, haha! Whatever the reason, I love baking muffins even though it’s […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  March 21, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Cupcakes, Muffins, Buns and Scones, Muffin Mondays

  baking, baking with kids, cake, Cake Angels Posh Cake Toppers, comfort food, dessert, family, family baking, Muffin Mondays, muffins, raspberries, raspberry and white chocolate muffins, teatime, white chocolate

• Amazing Cakes #30: Fairy Cakes

  

  Hi everyone! Once again I’ve not kept up with my blogging. I’ve started a new job. I only work part time (every morning) but I’m busy with my online baking commitments and juggling lots going on at home at the moment. I’m pleased to say it’s actually now half term week here and although I […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  October 27, 2021

  Amazing Cakes, Cupcakes, Cupcakes, Muffins, Buns and Scones

  Amazing Cakes, baking, baking with kids, cupcakes, fairy cakes, Frozen, icing sugar, small bakes, sprinkles, Sugar and Crumbs, The Great British Bake Off, white chocolate

• Great British Bake Off Technical Bake: Coconut Macaroons

  I was really keen to bake the Coconut Macaroons from the Great British Bake Off’s Biscuit Week Technical Bake as I love coconut.  I’d never baked coconut macaroons though so this was a first for me.  I don’t really think of macaroons as biscuits though, I think of them as small cakes! The Technical challenge […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  October 13, 2020

  Cupcakes, Muffins, Buns and Scones, Macaroons, The Great British Bake Off

  biscuit week, British macaroons, chocolate, coconut, coconut macaroons, condensed milk, desiccated coconut, egg whites, lemon curd, macaroons, Prue Leith’s recipe, technical bake, The Great British Bake Off, traditional recipes

• Lemon Cupcakes

  

  How are you all doing? As I write, I’m catching up on my day off after a busy first week back at work.  My workplace reopened last Monday and it’s just fantastic to be back. To mark the day of reopening, I just had to celebrate by taking in some baking to share with my […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  July 9, 2020

  Cupcakes, Muffins, Buns and Scones

  baking, buttercream, cupcake, cupcakes, icing sugar, jellied lemons, lemon cupcake, lemons, lockdown baking, sprinkles, staffroom treat, Sugar and Crumbs Icing Sugar

• Sultana Scones- My Favourite Recipe

  I’ve been meaning to write this blog post up for ages. Having a bit more time being in lockdown has given me the time to add more things on the blog. Scone’s have always been one of my favourites. You can’t beat a fresh, homemade scone. One of the things I am really looking forward […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  June 1, 2020

  Cupcakes, Muffins, Buns and Scones

  5 Ingredients, afternoon tea, British Baking, classic bakes, clotted cream, cream first, cream tea, freshly made, jam, jam first, scone, scones, sultana scones, sweet scones, traditional baking, whipped cream

• Chocolate Chip Muffins

  

  It’s been ages since I’ve baked muffins. At the beginning of the lockdown when going off to the supermarket for our weekly shop, my son asked if I could buy some of those mini muffins you can buy in plastic tubs on the bakery counter. I never usually buy these as they taste horrible to […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  May 31, 2020

  Cupcakes, Muffins, Buns and Scones

  afternoon baking, baking, baking with kids, chocolate, chocolate chip muffins, chocolate chips, kid friendly recipes, lockdown baking, muffins, simple recipes, vanilla yoghurt