foodie_student_life

Simple Coffee-Time Biccies Home lock-down has got my family going slightly stir crazy! I'm loving the extra baking and cooking time, locking myself in the kitchen whenever I can and have found some great recipes online and in the newspaper (BBC Good Food is always a favourite; there's some great pages to follow on insta too for inspiration and recipes and the telegraph food and drink section is getting bigger every day!!) While insanity is starting to hit - we're trying to keep a routine/pattern and coffee time is now a major feature! It's the really needed morning pick-me-up a chance to break from revision, gather for a chat and of course eat biscuits!! Knowing how much my family love biscuits, we go through quite a few so I found this simple recipe online and have been loving making them on a regular basis. As you can see, the measures are a bit odd - I halved the recipe and found it made plenty of perfectly sized coffee time biccies! The Recipe below is f...

Well I've been wanting to make an upside down cake for a while and 'lock-down' has given me the perfect excuse to spend more time in the kitchen! I spotted some rather ripe bananas in the fruit bowl and made the mistake of asking my family what they thought I should make, the answers came back unanimously for a crumble 😒 - banana crumble is a family favourite, I'll share the secret recipe another time - but having made crumble a few days before I fancied trying something different and found this recipe on the BBC Good Food App (a great source for all recipes - sweet, savoury and everything in-between - it's where I get a lot of inspiration for my cooking) Not having quite all the ingredients - of course I adapted or used similar and it tasted so good!!! While mine was still a little sloppy 😕 I've learnt for next time and would defo recommend a long bake covered with foil. We had this fabulous and show-stoppingly impressive looking cake still warm from ...

 Simple Lemon Drizzle Baking is something I wish I could do more of. As a student it’s difficult to find ways of incorporating it into work and I’m often put off by expensive ingredient and recipes requiring things I’ve never even heard of let alone seen in the aisles of lidl. When I do manage to bake, the produce is either demolished by housemates in minutes or left around until its past its best (dependent on who’s in the house!!!) This simple lemon drizzle provides a perfect resolution: easily accessible ingredients and ability to be sacked up or down, it uses a pretty standard cake batter mix with the addition of lemon juice which can then be smothered in tasty drizzle Ingredients: For the Cake - 4/6/8 oz Caster Sugar 4/6/8 oz Butter (softened) 4/6/8 oz Self Raising Flour (preferably sifted but don’t worry if not) 2/3/4 Medium sized eggs 1 tsp baking powder 1 lemon (juiced) For the Drizzle - 1 lemon (juiced) Approx. 6 tbsp Caster sugar (rough guide - best ...