I have such a fun recipe to share with you today – Double Chocolate Freckles! The recipe comes from my (The Australian) Women’s Weekly Cupcakes & Cookies cookbook. I love the recipes from all my Women’s Weekly cookbooks because they’re fun, reliable & triple tested. The dough is very easy to work with! Just spread some melted chocolate on your…
Please join me today for a lovely Cream Tea with some yummy Lemon Cream Scones! This is one of my favorite scone recipes and it was so much fun decorating them in shabby colors! I was just going to serve the Pink Whipped Cream on the side,but decided to go ahead and slice the scones…
Today I’m revisiting a recipe that I blogged about in 2011. I’ve made many recipes since then but this recipe is one of my signature pastries! The texture is like a firm but soft pound cake and very moist! If you’ve always wanted to try making Petits Fours but were afraid to try, you need to make these! You will need…
Hope your week is going well! If not, I have something to cheer you up! Fairy Bites!! Just looking at these cute little cookie bites makes me smile! It brings out the kid in me! These are the kind of cookies that would be perfect for a Doll’s Tea Party with my little girl! They are easier to…
Today I want to share one of my favorite Tea Sandwich recipes! It’s a Fancy Tomato Pesto Tea Sandwich that tastes incredible and looks so pretty! I’ve made these for open houses, book signings and tea parties and they were always a hit! All you need is a pack of Cherry Tomatoes, one pkg Cream…
I have another cookie recipe to share from my cookbook called Lee Bailey’s Country Desserts. These are absolutely delicious!! A Praline in cookie form with just 4 ingredients! These cookies are like a cross between a meringue and a Praline – a bit crunchy on the outside and chewy on the inside! So incredibly good…
Today I have a lovely little recipe for you – a vintage recipe from a cookbook called The Farmer’s Wife Comfort Food Cookbook. I’ve been wanting to try this recipe for a long time. Over the weekend I was looking through some recipe printouts that I have from the days before Pinterest, and found this recipe. I used…
I just made some cute little scones for Tea! The recipe came from a cookbook in my collection called HORS D’OEUVRES by Eric Treuille & Victoria Blashford-Snell. These little two bite cream scones are topped with sweetened whipped cream and a strawberry half. So yummy and the perfect size for Tea! I added a bit of pink food coloring to…
I made Macarons this week from a new recipe but they didn’t turn out as pretty as I would have liked so I did the next best thing! Made them into Petits Fours! They were especially pretty because I had made them in two colors – red & pink. I made a Raspberry Buttercream filling using this recipe….
I just finished a board on Pinterest that I’ve been working on and I wanted to share it with you! It’s called Miss Tilly’s Tea Parlour and it includes things that might have been found in a Victorian Parlour. Some of the pins include “how to host a Victorian Tea”, Victorian recipes, and pictures of Victorian Parlours….
What Pretty Valentine’s Day Sweets can you make with 2 Egg Whites and some Sugar? Pretty Pink Meringues! Meringues are so easy and inexpensive and you can pipe them in so many pretty shapes. You can add mini chocolate chips or nuts to them or sprinkle them with pretty sprinkles! Here are the meringues before baking. They…
Hello Friends! Hope your January is going well! Today I baked something that is the perfect accompaniment to a hot cup of tea or coffee – “Almond Bread.” Almond Bread is a type of Biscotti that’s twice baked, but you bake it in loaf form the night before and then slice it wafer thin the…