Scottish Mum Blog - Writing from Aberdeen
Walking in the rain, or blogging in the snow. On the path to enlightenment, wear comfy shoes.
1. Use the minimum of utensils and keep your ingredients list reasonable. I have a habit of making a huge mess of the kitchen when I am cooking, and with 6 mouths to feed, the kitchen can look like a bomb site quite easily. I have got cup cake making down to a fine art [...]
Baxters sent a gorgeous hamper with a lovely Baxters apron and a selection of Beetroot from their range. Baxters are reasonably local to us, and I’ve often bought their beetroot as it tends to be a nice sweet vinegary taste. Their products have been in my life as far back as I can remember, so [...]
I spotted this lovely box in Sainsburys (I think). I had to buy it, and my eldest decided to don his cheffing apron and make a batch of cakes with them for Halloween. I know it’s a bit past Halloween now, but these are great cup cakes for birthday parties. How many little boys could [...]
The kids wanted to make a cake, so Cherry cake it was. Initially, I thought this was a waste of my lovely (expensive) rainier cherries. Nothing beats those for the look and taste. I only buy them very rarely as a treat, but to keep the kids amused, I sacrificed my lovely fruit. Print Rainier [...]
This is a lush carrot cake and sooo easy to make. I made this using the carrots we were so kindly given from Scotty Brand. I used small loaf tins. Yield – up to 6 small tins. Ingredients 4 oz castor sugar 4 oz demerara or brown sugar 8 oz butter 8 oz self-raising flour, [...]
A lovely Guest Recipe from Lindsey, who you can find on Twitter as @MrsVanderCave, with her blog at backofbeyondbaking.blogspot.com. That topping is perfection by the look of it. ——————————– This recipe is actually for a carrot cake but it makes a big cake which can sometimes be a bit OTT, particularly if you like to watch [...]
It’s mums birthday today. If you didn’t know, you do now. I tend not to make too big a fuss when it’s my birthday and I actually never tell anyone in real life as I don’t want them to feel as if they “have” to buy me something, which they don’t. I’ll have popped out [...]
I couldn’t get the internet to work, so I decided to bake a batch of brownies. The only problem was that I didn’t have all the right ingredients for it, so I compromised – Do you think it worked? Ingredients 190g unsalted butter 185g chocolate (I had half Galaxy and half cooking chocolate) 130g plain [...]
