Wallace and Gromit's BIG Bake for CookBlogShare

When I was approached to promote the Wallace and Gromit BIG Bake I really was intrigued. As a family we love Wallace and Gromit so I had to look into what it was. I discovered that the Wallace and Gromit Organisation is a children's charity that helps to improve the lives of sick children in hospitals and hospices. They rely on campaigns such as the BIG Bake to help raise funds to enable them to do this important work.

Since 2003, Wallace and Gromit's Children's Charity has given over £2 million in grants to 291 projects, in 93 different hospitals and hospices. This is providing life saving medical equipment, free family accommodation, a range of arts, music and play therapy programmes, sensory equipment and facilities as well as respite care.

I was amazed to read that the Wallace and Gromit Children's Charity is the only charity that supports sick children in hospitals and hospices in the UK.

This year baking queen Fiona Cairns has been announced as this years BIG Bake ambassador. They are urging the country to come together and have a big bake and sale. All of the money raised will go towards helping sick children and their families. The BIG Bake week is 7th December - 13th December 2015.

To get you going Fiona Cairns has created some recipes for bakes. Today I am sharing with you the Sticky Toffee Cupcakes with Salted Caramel Buttercream. These are delicious little cupcakes which really will impress at a cake sale! I did change the salted caramel buttercream to a salted caramel toffee sauce.

I thought that CookBlogShare would be the perfect place to share this great fund raiser!

This is how I got on...

Raspberry Cranachan - A Scottish Recipe to Celebrate the Release of Outlander Series 1 on DVD and Blu-Ray

When my oven broke I had to think of new non bake sweet treats.

This was a pudding that I first made on Burns Night and as it was such a success I decided to make another one and adapted a few of the quantities to our taste.

We love the combination of the cream and fruit with the whisky that gives the cream an extra kick!

This is definitely an adult only pudding which would be perfect for a date night!

This is what I did...

Raspberry Cranachan

Ingredients

400g raspberries

400mls double cream

40g Scottish Oatmeal

1tsp caster sugar

3tbsp single malt whisky

Method

1 - Heat the oatmeal in a dry frying pan until they are toasted and smell nutty, remove from the heat to cool

2 - Mash the raspberries, keeping a few whole one for the top, and add the caster sugar to sweeten

3 - Whisk the double cream until stiff

4 - Mix the cooled oatmeal and whisky into the cream until evenly combined

5 - Layer the raspberries and cream in serving glasses and top with the whole raspberries

6 - Place the puddings into the fridge and leave to cool for about 30 minutes

This pudding is a real treat and is always a winner in our house.

I have also made this using a mixture of raspberries and blueberries but any berries that you may like would also work!

Enjoy x



 

This Scottish recipe is my entry to the Outlander Series 1 Scottish Recipe competition. Outlander series 1 is now available to buy on DVD and Blu-ray!

Picture is courtesy of Sony Pictures at Home

CookBlogShare Week 15 - The Savoury Round Up

Happy November to you all. I don't know about you, but to me it feels like the months are flying by way too quickly! You can guarantee that now November is here we will start to see more Christmas recipes popping up and it will be here before we know it!

Before I tell you all about my four favourite recipes from last week, I want to say thank you to Beckie from This Is Not My Home for doing a great job hosting the #CookBlogShare linky party!

This week my four favourite recipes are all savoury ones. They are all meals which I would love to make and they all look like meals which I would love to sit down and be served. Each and every one of them is going to be going on my to try list!

My four favourite recipes from week 15 of CookBlogShare are...

Weekly Meal Plan - Week Commencing 2nd November 2015

The months are flying by! I can't quite believe it is November already!

Thankfully the weather has been ok so far (touch wood!) and we have not had many really cold days but I am still enjoying preparing more comforting foods. Last week I cooked all of the meals planned apart from the pheasant. As the hubby had the day off work we decided to go out for lunch to save me cooking in the evening. We all enjoyed a lovely lunch at Frankie and Benny's.

Last week I shared a slow cooked meal, a yummy cake and a spooky dinner for the kiddies...

Peanut Butter Cake

Severed Fingers in Mash

Slow Cooked Beef and Bean Hotpot

Sunday Picture

25th October - 31st October 2015 - One Picture Everyday For One Year

This week has been half term and it has been lovely to have some lazy mornings with the children. Thanks to the cold weather we haven't been far but have still had a good week!

Here is our week in pictures...

Sunday 25th October 2015