Muffins & Cupcakes

Well damnit, apparently this blog is now officially two years old! See, people don’t believe me when I tell them that I almost forgot my actual birthday last year, perhaps now they’ll see that I really am that forgetful!
I just want to say thank you to my readers - I know a lot of you […]



Would you believe that once upon a time, I was absolutely terrified of baking muffins?1 Yes, I kid you not - in the early days of this blog, I publicly outed myself as having absolutely no skill in the muffin department, as the recipes I’d tried till then had always given disappointing results.
Well, folks, as […]



Cupcakes. You either love ‘em or you hate ‘em. You might be thinking “Awww, but they’re so cute - teensy tiny cakes with frosting that you can devour in a few bites - what’s not to love?”
Long time readers of my blog will know that I used to have an almost unreasonable fear of these […]



Making Nigella’s ‘Jam Doughnut Muffins’ is something kids will love - as will you!
Nigella claims that these ‘Jam Doughnut Muffins’ are something easy enough that her kids could help out with in the kitchen, and that’s definetely true as the batter took me all of about 5 minutes to put together. However, she also claims […]



Even when I’m happy with a recipe that I have, I am always willing to try new ones to see how they compare. This weekend, it was the world of financiers that I ventured into again.

The same type of baked good, the result was vastly different to what I had expected - not that this […]