Tag: raisins

• Apricot And Cranberry Granola Bars

  Friday 21st January was National Granola Bar Day according to MyLegoMan #MostlyFoodieDaysOf calendar. I love Granola Bars, even though they can be deceptively calorific. I try my hardest not to make or eat them too much, but occasionally the temptation is too much. On Thursday afternoon I was asked to make some Granola Bars so…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  January 23, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Foodie Days Of, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

  baking, breakfast, breakfast bakes, cinnamon, comfort food, dried fruit, granola, granola bars, healthier choices, lunchbox bakes, Mostly Foodie Days Of Calendar, MyLegoman calendar, National Granola Bar Day, porridge oats, raisins, traybake, traybakes

• Oat And Raisin Cookies: #100bakes

  

  For those that are wondering what the #100bakes challenge is: it is a poster from www.crumbsbycollette.co.uk featuring 100 popular bakes. As you bake the recipe, you scratch the relevant square off the poster, revealing a beautiful hand drawn picture of that bake underneath. Mine doesn’t look that neat when scratched off as you can tell…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  January 19, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Biscuits and Cookies

  #100bakeschallenge, baking, baking with kids, chewy cookies, cookies, Jane's Patisserie, oat and raisin cookies, oat cookies, oats, raisins, small bakes

• Sticky Toffee Pudding- #100bakes

  

  This is my go-to dessert recipe for New Year’s Day or for a winter family Sunday lunch

  Smart Cookie Sam

  January 2, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge, Christmas, Classic and Traditional Cakes, Family Meals, Hot Puddings and Desserts, Seasonal

  #100bakeschallenge, autumn, bundt, bundts, cake, cakes, Christmas, classic cakes, comfort food, cream, dessert, dried fruit, Nordicware, raisins, traditional

• Amazing Cakes #31: Apple, Maple and Walnut Streusel Cake

  

  October 17th 2021. It’s been over a year since I set myself the challenge of working my way through the bakes in The Great British Bake Off Book Of Amazing Cakes. I’ve only managed about half of the recipes and it’s getting to the stage where there are some bakes that I might not be…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  October 30, 2021

  Amazing Cakes, Seasonal

  Amazing Cakes, apple, baking, cake, cakes, cinnamon, comfort food, dessert, dried fruit, family, GBBO, raisins, teatime, The Great British Bake Off, traditional, walnuts

• Amazing Cakes #4: Carrot and Apple Cake

  

  I can’t resist a good carrot cake. Neither can the rest of my family and whenever I make carrot cake it disappears very quickly. Last Saturday afternoon I hadn’t planned on doing any baking. But I had done all the housework, been food shopping and came home having bought another bag of carrots. I couldn’t…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  October 1, 2020

  Amazing Cakes, Cakes and Muffins, Classic and Traditional Cakes, The Great British Bake Off

  apples, Bake Off recipe book, bakers recipes, baking, carrot and apple cake, carrot cake, carrots, cream cheese icing, nuts, raisins, The Great British Bake Off

• Suet-Free Mincemeat- How To Be A Domestic Goddess.

  Until about five years ago I could never be bothered to make my own mincemeat. Why go to all that trouble when you can buy it readymade in jars? It was when my late mother in law told me that making your own mincemeat was so easy, that I thought I might as well give…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  December 15, 2018

  Uncategorized

  apples, Bramley apples, brandy, cherries, Christmas, cider, currants, How To Be A Domestic Goddess, mincemeat, mincemeat recipes, Nigella Lawson, raisins

• The Great British Bake Off Christmas- Rudolph’s Carrot Cake.

  

  Wednesday December 6th 2017. I love a good carrot cake.  This version from The Great British Bake Off Christmas book has a special twist to it in that it’s decorated with a reindeer red nose and antlers on the top of it.  Although my children are too old for the leaving goodies out for Santa…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  December 10, 2017

  Seasonal and Celebration Cakes

  carrot cake, Christmas Eve, Christmas Eve tradition, cream cheese frosting, family, Father Christmas, large cakes, raisins, Rudolph, Santa Claus, The Great British Bake Off

• The Great British Bake Off Christmas- Mary Berry’s Classic Christmas Cake.

  

  Sunday December 3rd, 2017. Since I gave up baking professionally to concentrate on the day job full time, I’ve had less time to spend on baking things like Christmas cakes. Mr Smartcookiesam says to me every year that I should just go and buy a small one from Marks and Spencer but to me part…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  December 4, 2017

  Large and Celebration Cakes, Seasonal and Celebration Cakes

  almonds, baking, British, cake, cherries, Christmas, cinnamon, currants, dried fruit, ginger, Mary Berry, mixed peel, orange, raisins, spices, sugar, sultanas, The Great British Bake Off, traditional

• Chocolate Marbled Energy Bars from Delia’s Cakes.

  In my monthly challenge “Cooking The Books“, where I choose a favourite baking book and bake one recipe from each chapter throughout that month, I thought I would have no problem at all in choosing a recipe from the Chocolate chapter.   After all I am a total chocolholic!  This month’s turn is to bake…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  May 13, 2014

  Chocolate Treats, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

  apricots, chocolate, Comic Relief, condensed milk, Dawn French, Delia Smith, Delia’s Cakes, digeskritive biscuits, energy bars, marbled cakes, raisins, rice krispies, traybakes, white chocolate

• Cut and Come Again Cake from Mary Berry’s Baking Bible.

  

  Last week I had to take a few bakes along to my local WI meeting to serve up at suppertime.  We take it in turns in groups of three. Usually we liaise between one another and make or buy a selection of savoury and sweet items to take along to share with all the other…

  Smart Cookie Sam

  April 11, 2014

  Classic and Traditional Cakes

  currants, cut and come again cake, dried fruit, fruit cake, Mary Berry, Mary Berry’s Baking Bible, raisins, spice, sultanas, traditional cakes