I love getting creative with what I have on hand and I also love minimising food waste which means I sometimes throw weird combinations together and cross my fingers and hope for the best. Sometimes they are a complete disaster other times they work and I get a little excited about what I have created. […]
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Easy Pinata Cake
A couple of weeks ago we celebrated Mr 6’s 7th birthday (now Mr 7) an my birthday (he was born the day before my birthday, making it the best birthday present I have ever received). We both love nachos so we went with a Mexican theme for the food and that also included the cake […]
Caramel Banana Bread
Just when I thought I had made all the types of banana bread you could make I had an idea to make a Caramel Banana Bread and I am glad I did. The addition of the caramel sauce and fresh sliced bananas gives this bread suck a kick of flavour and texture. I chose to […]
Caramel Fudge Cookies
The other week as I was browsing the cooking aisle (as you do) of the supermarket a packet of mini fudge pieces caught my eye. I grabbed a packed and new exactly what I was going to make with them, these cookies. The little fudge pieces turned a basic cookie recipe into something extraordinary that […]
Homemade Caramel Popcorn
How good is caramel popcorn? I could sit there with a good movie and quite happily crunch away on a bowl of it, and because it is so easy to eat I won’t be making this every week as I may end up the size of a balloon hahaha. Homemade caramel popcorn is the perfect […]
Freckle Biscuits
It’s school holidays for us and I’m home with the boys for the week which is great as we don’t have to rush to be anywhere and we can be a little bit more relaxed with dinner and bed times (the pressure is off). During the holidays they get to have a treat breakfast which […]
Strawberry Yoghurt Cake
How good is Strawberry season? It does have feel like it has taken a little longer to hit than normal. Up to a couple of weeks ago strawberries were still upwards of $3 for a 250gm punnet, you can now grab one for $1 which means we can makes gluts of ourselves and eat them, […]
Mandarin and Banana Loaf
Some days the fruit that is in the boys lunchbox is returned uneaten and looking like they have been through the wringer. I swear I send the bananas to school just so they can come home overripe and squishy and as for the mandarin the excuse for not eating was “I thought it was an […]
Cafe Style Banana Bread
I finally had two overripe bananas in the fruit bowl this week, for the past couple of weeks the kids had been demolishing them and I had been craving banana bread – this week I was finally able to make banana bread. While I have many banana bread combinations here to choose from, I decided […]
