Spiced Pumpkin Rum Choc Chip Loaf
October is proving to be a month punctuated by lots of pumpkin recipes. This is all down to the squash explosion at my allotment. I had no idea just how many squash would stem from one single plant....
View ArticleA Halloween Cake Sale
A while ago me and my children decided to try holding a cake/garage sale. Halloween seemed like a good time to do this, especially seeing as this year it falls in the half term week. I have never taken...
View ArticleSpiced Pumpkin Cupcakes with Orange Frosting
This is a recipe that I tried over the weekend along with one other, soon to follow. I bought a pumpkin impulsively and set about creating a couple of ideas. These spiced pumpkin cupcakes make a...
View ArticlePumpkin Bread – A Savoury Loaf
As I mentioned in my last PUMPKIN post, this is the second recipe which comes from the second half of the pumpkin I bought last weekend. After making my first ever batch of pumpkin cupcakes which...
View ArticlePumpkin Kale & Coconut Soup
If there is one thing I love most about Autumn, it is the colours. Burnt oranges, russets, mossy greens and fading yellows all mingling together to form a perfect Autumnal scene with shiny nuggets of...
View ArticleSpiced Pumpkin Blondies
There are so many recipes featuring pumpkin that I want to try at the moment. I keep finding myself bookmarking recipes galore. Most of the time I like to create my own bakes from scratch but when I am...
View ArticleHalloween Pumpkin Cookies
Happy Halloween! I have just baked some low sugar, lightly spiced Halloween Pumkpin Cookies this morning splattered with vivid orange icing. For real gore fanatics, you might want to try bright red...
View ArticlePumpkin Pear & Amaretto Trifle
This pumpkin, pear and Amaretto trifle wasn’t supposed to be my next post. I had made what I thought to be the most fantastic caramel apple pie with crisp, short pastry and layers of softly baked...
View ArticleSpiced Pumpkin Traybake
I started making this spiced pumpkin traybake last year and was amazed at how positive the reaction to it was. It’s very similar to a carrot cake but with a smooth texture – a damp spiced sponge that...
View ArticlePumpkin Pear and Ginger Soup
Are you trick or treating for Halloween tonight? Before setting off why not pour yourself a bowl of my pumpkin pear and ginger soup. This Autumnal spiced soup will prepare you for the night ahead as...
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