Recipe - Hot Cross Buns

With it being Easter next weekend it seemed like the perfect time to bake some of the best things about the end of Lent - Hot Cross Buns.

These beauties have the sticky, curranty, doughy happiness of any shop bought buns but instead you can have the smug satisfaction that they are homemade. It would be a travesty not to eat a couple in a row.....

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Recipe - Salted Caramel Brownies

If you are feeling indulgent and want a break from your January resolutions then you have come to the right place!

These Salted Caramel Brownies are ridiculously moreish and the dark chocolate and sweet and salt caramel work together in a sticky mess that will make your mouth water just a little bit.

Click the picture below to see what I mean!

C x

Recipe - Low-carb Pizza

As many of you will be aware I am currently trying to watch what I eat. Now pizza is pizza and I'm not offering a miracle pizza with no calories but what I am offering is a slighty healthier, just as tasty pizza option so you can munch away without so much guilt!

Click the picture to watch!

C x

Recipe - Apple & Pear Cake

I have a very special treat for you on the blog today. My very first cooking video! Oh yes - jaunty jingle and everything. It's the New Year and everyone is going for the healthy eating angle so today my cake is an apple and pear cake! You know, so you can feel vaguely like you are being healthy whilst eating cake...

I hope you enjoy watching! Click the picture to link through to the video!

Ingredients

225g self raising flour
115g light brown sugar
115g butter, unsalted
1 large egg
200g apples, peeled, cored & diced
200g pears, peeled, cored & diced
100g sultanas 
2 tbsp cinnamon
6 tbsp milk

C x

Clean Bandit - at The Laundry

Clean Bandit blared into my eardrums a couple of months ago, I first mentioned them in my January Favourites and I haven't stopped loving them since. They have a amazing mix of classic, electro with a dash of pop thrown in. 

Imagine my delight when we managed to get a couple of tickets in a ballot to a special, intimate gig - which considering they are playing the big festival circuit this year is a big deal.

We followed the signs to a warehouse type venue in Hackney called The Laundry and grabbed ourselves a couple of very overpriced drinks and settled in by a column to give us a little bit more space to dance.

The cheers started as they took to the stage and off they went! They played all the songs I knew like Mozart's House, Rather Be, and A+E. They played their new single and also covered Wildfire by SBTRKT and Show Me Love by Robin S.

It was a brilliant night and so fantastic to be in such a little venue hearing the songs I've been singing in my kitchen for weeks!

If you haven't already give them a listen, they are going to be huge.

xxx