Chocolate Ginger Biscuit Cake!

It was the boss' birthday and he said his favourite cake is 'biscuit cake'! Biscuit cake is known by several different names such as refrigerator cake and tiffin cake. I have never made a biscuit cake so thought I will give it a try.


First, 300g of gingersnaps were crushed and broken into pieces. Chocolate, sugar and butter are then melted in a large saucepan. The crushed gingersnaps, chopped dried mango, raisins and glace cherries were then combined into the pot mix. The 'dough' is then spread over a baking tin and left to chill in the fridge to harden.

I got 20 pieces, the Husband ate a couple, 9 pieces were given to the boss for his birthday present and the rest eaten by the Office!

Chocolate Cupcakes with Strawberry Buttercream Icing!

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month and I thought I will set myself a challenge to bake something pink every week this month. So, this weekend, I decided to combine the Husband's favourite food, chocolate, with my choice of pink, strawberries.


This delicious cupcake is baked out of plain flour, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder, sugar, butter, chocolate chips, water, eggs, cocoa powder and a little bit of salt.

For the icing, I used Sainsbury's strawberry flavoured icing powder mixed with water and beaten with butter to make strawberry buttercream icing!

The original recipe was for 18 muffin sized cupcakes but by making them just a little bit smaller, I ended up with 37 cupcakes! All but 4 were eaten by the end of the day in the Office and I had a request for the recipe!

The Husband has declared them 'quite good' but he's not a fan of creamy stuff, so buttercream icing is always a taste challenge for him! 

Coconut Oreo Chocolate Chip Cookies!

The Husband requested for chocolate chip cookies on Friday evening as a treat. So besides making him a batch of banana chocolate chip cookies, I decided to bake something different as well and found this recipe online.

This batch of cookies are baked out of butter, brown and granulated sugar, plain four, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder, chocolate chips, 12 oreos, egg, vanilla extract and desiccated coconut. This american recipe uses coconut delight oreo fudge cremes but unfortunately we don't get that variety in the UK, so I used plain vanilla oreos instead which I have to say I don't think affected the taste of these cookies! 

The Husband finds it slightly strange to bake a cookie in a cookie but it didn't stop him scoffing 2!

Now to find more tasters....