Category: Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

• Mincemeat Shortbread

  

  Yesterday (January 6th) was National Shortbread Day. Who doesn’t love a beautiful, melt in the mouth piece of chunky all butter shortbread dusted with caster sugar? Me, for one! Shortbread is one of those bakes I never tire of making. It’s so easy to make and you can flavour it with whatever you have going […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  January 7, 2023

  Foodie Days Of, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

  afternoon tea, baking, Christmas, comfort food, dried fruit, mincemeat, National Shortbread Day, shortbread, teatime treats, traditional, traybake, traybakes

• 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 […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  January 2, 2023

  #100bakeschallenge, Biscuits and Cookies, Bundts, Cakes and Muffins, Chocolate Treats, Christmas, Classic and Traditional Cakes, Easter, Fruity and Nutty Cakes, Large and Celebration Cakes, Seasonal, Seasonal and Celebration Cakes, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

  A Year Of Cake, autumn, baking, best of 2022, biscuits, cake, cakes, chocolate, Christmas, classic cakes, comfort food, cookies, cupcakes, dessert, Nordicware, teatime, traditional, traybakes, year roundup

• 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

• 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. […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  September 20, 2022

  Biscuits and Cookies, Cakes and Muffins, Large and Celebration Cakes, Seasonal and Celebration Cakes, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

  afternoon tea, baking, biscuits, cake, cakes, chocolate, comfort food, cookies, family, summer baking, teatime treats, traditional, traybakes

• Mini Egg Flapjacks

  

  I can’t get enough of Mini Eggs and I can’t get enough of Flapjacks. So I thought what if I could combine the two? My regular Flapjack recipe is one I’ve used for over 15 years and I’ve lost count of the times I’ve baked it. It’s been baked for my family, for friends, baked […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  April 13, 2022

  Seasonal, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

  baking, baking fun, baking with kids, chocolate, Easter, Easter baking, flapjacks, mini egg flapjacks, mini eggs, simple recipes, traditional

• Daim Caramel Mini Egg Brownies

  

  The other day I had a great response on social media to the Terry’s Chocolate Orange Mini Egg Brownie recipe I posted. I also had lots of compliments about them from my work colleagues who actually got to test them out. Tomorrow, they will be getting an alternative flavour. This time, it’s going to be […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  April 3, 2022

  Chocolate Treats, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

  baking, brownies, Cadburys, Callebaut caramel chips, chocolate, chocolate chips, Daim, Daim Mini Eggs, dark chocolate, desserts, Easter baking, Easter recipes, teatime treats, traybake, traybakes

• terry’s chocolate orange mini egg brownies

  

  As it’s getting closer to Easter and I’ve been getting ready for the Easter Bunny coming chez SmartCookieSam, it’s got me started to think about some Easter recipes. Usually I look at what Easter Chocolates are around in the shop although I’m surprised the mini eggs have lasted that long. Once a packet is open […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  March 30, 2022

  Chocolate Treats, Seasonal, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

  afternoon tea, brownie recipe, brownies, chocolate, chocolate egg recipe, chocolate recipes, dark chocolate, Easter baking, sharing with family, Sugar and Crumbs Orange Cocoa Powder, Terry’s chocolate orange mini eggs

• fitwaffle’s baking it easy- a book review

  

  I must admit I’d never heard of Fitwaffle before I picked up a copy of this book the other day. I’d gone to Northallerton to buy baking supplies and saw Fitwaffle’s Baking It Easy on the shelf in WHSmith! I am always looking out for new baking books. Those of you who know me well, […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  March 30, 2022

  Book and Product Reviews, Traybakes and Tea Loaves, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

  baking, Baking It Easy book, baking with kids, Biscoff, biscoff spread, chocolate, easy recipes, family, Fitwaffle Baking It Easy, Fitwaffle Kitchen, four ingredient recipes, fridge cake, Instagram, no bake cake, Rocky Road, speculoos, traybake, traybakes, white chocolate, Youtuber

• #100bakes: Lemon drizzle cake

  

  There are quite a few Lemon Drizzle Cakes or variations of Lemon Cakes already on my blog. But I was wanting to contribute a couple of cakes to the Cake Stall at our village coffee morning. Lemon Drizzle cake always seems to be popular at events and a traybake is so easy to make. Just […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  March 20, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Mary Berry, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

  afternoon tea, baking, cake, classic cakes, dessert, family, lemon, lemon drizzle cake, lemon drizzle traybake, lemons, Mary Berry, Mary Berry’s Baking Bible, teatime, traditional, traybake, traybakes

• National Chocolate Caramel Day: Caramel Chocolate Rocky Road

  

  I absolutely adore Rocky Road and made a batch of it the other day thinking ahead to celebrating National Chocolate Caramel Day on Saturday 19th March (see my National Mostly Foodie Days Of 2022 calendar by My Legoman! It was also another challenge to scratch off my Crumbs By Collette #100BakesCalendar As I make a […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  March 20, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Chocolate Treats, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

  Aero Caramels, baking with kids, birthday cake, celebrations, chocolate, dark chocolate, fridge cake, marshmallows, no bake cake, Rocky Road, Rolos, salted caramel, Salted Caramel Twix, traybake, traybakes