Throwing Parties To Eat Cake
One of the things I always make at Christmas is my Christmas shortbread, its so easy, so delicious and a great gift. Ingredients: 250g of soft room temperature unsalted butter1/2 a cup of icing sugar1 tsp of coconut extract 1 egg (at room temperature) 1 cup of dried cranberries1 cup of pistachios 180g chopped white chocolate or…
This year I have made our teachers cookie selection boxes for an end of year gift, containing several types of cookies and its a lovely gift for anyone who has a sweet tooth. These contain my Christmas shortbread, choc chip cookies, my choc orange cookies topped with a sugared orange dipped in chocolate, coconut iced…
I think Madonna sang it best when she sang, "come on, Morgue (vogue) Let your dead body move to the music, hey hey hey, Come on, Morgue, Let you dead body go with the flow, you know you can do it! and it was the perfect theme for our Halloween disco. Starting with the invitations,…
I'm always looking for fun Halloween things for my kids as we don't Trick and Treat and this year I have come up with these spooky eye cookies. They have a little card underneath that the kids can wiggle with their fingers to move the eyes around, and my kids absolutely loved them! What you…
To celebrate the Day of the Dead (Dia de Muertos) my kids and I made some rainbow pastel skull cookies which could be a fun activity and decoration for Halloween, if they hadn't have eaten some of them already! I found some skull impression cookie cutters which leave a pattern imprint on the cookie so…
When my youngest asked for The Tiger Who Came To Tea by Judith Kerr as her birthday party theme I was so excited! It has been a favourite of mine since I was a child and was one of the first books I bought when I was pregnant. The great thing about throwing a party…
