Tag: traybake

• 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

• 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

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• June Baking Update #100bakeschallenge

  

  It’s the beginning of July and I’ve been so behind with my SmartCookieSam blog. It seems I only have time to update it in the school holidays at the moment and that really upsets me as I love doing it. I’ve had a busy time recently and as normal, the blogging gets pushed to the […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  June 29, 2022

  #100bakeschallenge

  #100bakeschallenge, afternoon tea, baking, baking with kids, birthday cake, biscuits, cake, cakes, celebrations, chocolate, chocolate chips, comfort food, cookies, cream, dark chocolate, family, family friendly, loaf cakes, monthly round up, platinum jubilee, shortbread, teatime treats, traditional, traybake, traybakes

• 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

• 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

• National Have A Brownie Day- Crunchie Brownies

  

  As I type this, it is Monday 21st February. This post has been edited several times and sat in draft form for nine days now. I honestly don’t know how bloggers with other jobs manage to fit in all their writing time. Last Sunday I was busy with Valentine’s Day baking orders. Then last week […]

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  February 21, 2022

  Foodie Days Of, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

  afternoon tea, baking, brownies, Cadbury’s Crunchie bars, Callebaut chocolate chips, celebrations, chocolate, chocolate chips, dessert, desserts, favourite recipes, Fridays, Jane's Patisserie, love baking, Mostly Foodie Days Of Calendar, My Legoman, traybake

• National Peanut Butter Day: No bake peanut butter and chocolate squares

  

  Today is National Peanut Butter Day! As I was getting all the ingredients out to make something peanut butter related to share with you, Mr S said I was making it up! I told him to go and look on the MyLegoman Mostly Foodie Days Of… Calendar and it was there for January 24th. So […]

  Smart Cookie Sam

  January 24, 2022

  Foodie Days Of, Traybakes, Brownies and Flapjacks

  chocolate, Mostly Foodie Days Of, MyLegoman, National Peanut Butter Day, Nigella Lawson, Nigella Lawson recipe, no bake cake, peanut butter, peanut butter and chocolate, peanut butter and chocolate squares, traybake

• 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 […]

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  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