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You can watch what happened in this video as I demonstrate how to make Peanut Blondies from the Hungry Student Easy Baking Book .  It's worth it, I promise...  Ingredients Vegetable oil or butter, for greasing 100g white chocolate, broken into squares 60g butter, softened 100g caster sugar 150g light brown soft sugar 2 medium eggs, beaten 1tsp vanilla extract 150g peanut butter (crunchy works best but smooth is fine too) 80g plain flour 1/4tsp baking powder pinch of salt 20cm square cake tin non-stick baking paper Method Preheat the oven to 180C / Gas Mark 6. Grease a 20cm square cake tin and line with non-stick baking paper. Melt the chocolate (traditional or microwave method).  When the chocolate is melted, set it aside to cool for around 10 minutes. In a mixing bowl, beat together the butter and both types of sugar until pale and fluffy. Combine the beaten eggs and vanilla extract and add to the mixture along with the peanut bu...

You'd think after blogging after all this time that I'd remember important dates such as the "birth" of this blog?  Oh no! Not me.  I missed my blog anniversary.  Again.  For the third year running!  For those who don't know, this blog was reborn on 27th July 2009 with the post " From Young Mum To Young Grandparent in 17 Years " so, to celebrate, I started  a Tumblr account that was long overdue .  I have a feeling that this will be a funnel for all the randomness that I find round and about.  Stuff that's too short for a blog post and too long for Twitter. I've celebrated with cake, naturally.  Cake supplied by a company called Baker Days* who wanted to send me cake because I'm a lovely person.  Who can argue with that? ( You don't need to answer that last question ) Anyway, I've noticed over the past year or so that the bloggers I connected with back in the olden days are seen as "Top Bloggers" with...

When your 11 year old asks you to go out and buy ingredients to make cakes, make sure he is going to be around to actually help out and not bugger off to town all afternoon and then arrange to stop over at a friend's house at night.  Dear Reader, without supervision, I decided to carry on regardless and make the ginger cake anyway.  I hear some of you quaking already...