Tag: butter

• Icelandic Marriage Cake.

  

  Whenever I go on holiday I like to find out if there are any traditional local cakes either to try  or to recreate at home.  Last month we went to Iceland for four days as a stopover on our way to Canada.  I didn’t eat any cake or sample any Icelandic baking but was curious…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  August 19, 2016

  Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

  bars, butter, cakes, family, Iceland, Icelandic, jam, marriage, Marriage Cake, oats, rhubarb, sugar, teatime

• Fruity No Bake Granola Flapjack Bars

  

  Last week I felt really tired, exhausted and hormonal.  I just wanted to curl up in a ball and sleep for a week yet at night I really struggled with my sleep. It took  me ages to drop off, then I was waking up at 3am  and 5 am.  I couldn’t understand why.  When I…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  March 30, 2014

  Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

  baking with kids, bars, brown sugar, butter, coconut, dried fruit, flapjacks, golden syrup, granola, no bake, nuts, oats, rice krispies, sunflower seeds

• Cooking The Books February 2014- Italian Biscuits from How To Be A Domestic Goddess.

  Last week I baked for a tea party at the school where I work as a teaching assistant.  My friend and work colleague was retiring from her post and we held a special party for her in the afternoon.  The children had made sandwiches and decorated cupcakes and I decided to bake some biscuits along…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  February 23, 2014

  Biscuits and Cookies

  biscuits, butter, buttery, cherries, How To Be A Domestic Goddess, Italian, Italy, lemon, Nigella Lawson

• Vanilla Sables- The Great British Bake Off Everyday

  For my third bake towards the family picnic I never went on last week I chose to make some Vanilla Sables.  Vanilla Sables are the French equivalent of shortbread biscuits and I’ve seen them when I have been on holiday in France, especially in the Normandy and Brittany regions.  I’ve seen them called Sables Au…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  September 6, 2013

  Biscuits and Cookies, The Great British Bake Off

  biscuits, Brittany, butter, France, French, picnic, sables, shortbread, summer, The Great British Bake Off