Halloween wasn’t a big thing when I was growing up. TBH, I didn’t even know it existed out of the USA, until I moved to New Zealand 😛 Now that I have kids it’s just an opportunity to create more play activities for them. The following is just an adapted shortbread recipe, as only my husband likes ginger cookies. Ingredients: 1 & 1/2 cups standard flour 1/2 cup cornflour 3/4 cup icing sugar 1/2 teaspoon ginger powder 250g butter Queen Royal icing Method: Preheat oven to 150* Cream the butter & icing sugar. Add sifted flour and cornflour. On a floured surface, roll out the dough to approximately 1cm…
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One-pot Banana Cake with Spicy Chai Icing
This is my go to recipe when we have bananas that are just too far gone for the kids n hubby to eat without complaining, but are perfectly fine to eat. TBH, I think they just complain so I do make this cake 😛. It can be done quickly with minimal dirtying of dishes – hence, one of my favourite recipes 🙂 Banana Cake Ingredients: 150g butter 3/4 cup sugar 2 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla essence 2 cups flour 2 teaspoons baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/2 cup milk 1 cup mashed banana Method: Preheat oven to 180* In a pot on the stovetop, melt butter. Turn…
