I hope you enjoyed the spooky spider biscuits from last week? I am finishing off the Halloween theme with these delicious chocolate milkshake sundaes. I don’t know about you, but I want my chocolate milkshake to taste intensely chocolatey, not just a hint of flavour. If you're like me, then you are going to love this recipe! The key, after much experimenting (one does what one must!!) was to use high quality chocolate ice cream along with an intense homemade chocolate fudg

This is one of my favourite times of the year, a chance to decorate the house and enjoy the fun of Halloween. I shared some ghoulish recipes last year, so feel free to scroll back and have a look, but this year I thought I would kick things of with a simple, yet effective, fun spooky spider idea. I didn’t have a biscuit cutter for this, so I made my own template using a piece of card and cut around it with a knife. I know spiders have eight legs, but as I was cutting these

The other day, I took the afternoon to make a list of all the Fridays left until the end of the year (surprisingly few!!) so that I could plan the blogs out to make sure they are seasonal and exciting. I promise that I am not normally that organised. So to keep things throughly autumnal and not rush ahead, I reached for golden pecans and decided to make a pie. I decided to push the pecan pie boat out, so to speak, and added some dark chocolate as there was some going spare

The light is drawing in as we head deeper into Autumn and I find myself needing some sustainable energy in the form of oats. I love a flapjack, but sometimes I fancy making them a bit more interesting so these tasty bars will be perfect. Oaty, crumbly, fruity, crunchy and tasty - bingo! You can always play around with the fruit/seed/nut combinations, but stick to the same weights. The seeds give a lovely texture and my trusty friend, cinnamon, makes an appearance to keep i