Annie's Noms

Dessert with a sprinkle of beauty.

Lemon and Cranberry Scones

A bit like bread, I absolutely love making scones. I like experimenting with different flavours and can’t stop eating them! Today’s helping is lemon and cranberry. It works so well, you get a really good kick of each flavour when you bite into them.

A Sunday of Motorsport

You are all well aware that I absolutely love baking, in fact I’ve just put some Butterscotch Bars in the oven, but I also love motorsport. And today we have had a full day of British Touring car action from Oulton Park and this evening we have the Formula 1 from Canada.

Guest Post: Strawberry Siciliano

Afternoon, I’m super excited to announce my first guest post today from Sara at livesnet.com. I made this the other day and really recommend it. Strawberries are my favourite fruit and it just so happens they’re in season at the moment so at their best! Enjoy 🙂

Honey Madeleines

I first tried Madeleines at college in a French class, our tutor brought them in for us and they were lovely. It’s amazing how much joy can be in such a small little cake.

An almost baking fail…

Well, I had a day off from painting today as I’m aching all over and my back has about given up 🙁 For those of you that don’t know, I have 4 slipped discs in my back and have been seeing various specialists, to no avail, about it for over a year now. Didn’t help…

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Chorizo Risotto and A Kitchen Update

I now have a green kitchen! Those of you who know me will know that lime green/any fresh shade of green are my favourite colours. If it were up to me, I’d have lime green everywhere, but since someone else has to live in the house, I have to tone it down a bit 😛

1 Room down, 6 or so to go…

Today I have been painting 🙂 The office is now a nice pale blue. Even though I wanted grey, B&Q; didn’t have the colour I chose, so I let the other half choose the colour and it looked grey/blue on the label, but it’s blue.

My Favourite Brownies in the World!

We’ve actually got off our bums and started tidying the house today 🙂 The spare room is almost clear. I must just say, this isn’t all my mess! My boyfriend is what you might call a hoarder, not really bad, but still a hoarder and when I moved in you could barely walk into the…

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Recent recipes

This Vegan Lemon Coconut Layer Cake combines a soft, flavourful lemon sponge, whipped coconut vanilla frosting and has a toasted coconut coating on the sides. It is the perfect cake for a birthday or Spring gathering.
This Vegan Lemon Drizzle Cake is as delicious as the regular version, super easy to make and perfect to devour with your afternoon coffee. You really would not know it's vegan!
This Festive Spiced Soda Bread is a Christmassy twist on a classic Irish soda bread. Full of currants, sultanas, raisins, mixed peel and cranberries, it's flavourful, soft and perfect with a good serving of butter!