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Donut Sugar Cookies

Okay, they’re supposed to look like donut-shaped sugar cookies, but looking back I think you’d more accurately call them homemade party rings.  Anyway, whatever you want to call them they’re far easier to whip up than you’d think, and definitely look cute on a plate with a cup of tea 🙂

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Mint Chocolate Chip Brownies

I’m an expert on eating brownies, not making them.  I bake a lot, but the humble brownie is something I’d never bothered to try – until recently.  Now I can’t stop making them (luckily I’ve got plenty of test subjects who are more than willing to scoff my experimental batches!). Mint-Chocolate Chip Brownies 160g butter/margarine 100g […]

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Lobster Sugar Cookies

“Lobster” and “Cookies” are words that don’t usually share the same sentence, I know.  But when I found a lobster-shaped cookie cutter on sale, I decided it needed to come home with me and join all the other weirdly-shaped cookie cutters gathering dust in one of my kitchen cupboards.  I have no idea how often I’ll […]

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Banana Nut Muffins

I’m a green banana kind of person.  I’ll only eat bananas when they’ve just turned yellow, and if I see a single black freckle then you can forget it.  Bananas go so quickly as well that they can change from perfect to pass in the space of an hour.  But I never throw the speckled […]

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Madeleines

Depending on who you are Madeleines will either make you think of Proust… or The Transporter.  Personally they make me think of holidays in France when I was a kid and my mum buying bags of them to keep my brother and I quiet on the long car journey from ferry to campsite.  I only […]