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Baking

Easy apple tarte tatin recipe

I love this time of the year, when there is a glut of shiny apples and juicy pears. We make lots of crumbles, crisps, cakes and muffins. Here’s another one of our favourite apple recipes: Apple Tarte Tatin. It’s not made the traditional way in one hob-to-oven dish, but it’s …

Stir It Up Sunday

I love baking, especially when Christmas is just around the corner. There is nothing better than being surrounded by butter, brown sugar, flour and cinnamon. Today is last Sunday before advent. Known as Stir It Up Sunday, it’s the traditional day to bake your Christmas cake! After long discussions on Twitter, I …

The Watt Loss Challenge

Disclosure: I'm working with British Gas on a project to help educate families about engery savings. No, that is not a typo! We're running the Watt Loss Challenge competition on the Smart Mums site — all you have to do is post a pic about how you save engery in …

Christmas baking and Christmas past

My mother is visiting from California. When she is here, we always try to cram in as much as we can. However, our plans to go into London for one of the National Gallery’s children’s programmes were ruined when hubby was turned out to be. (BTW- have your tried the National …