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Valentine's Ideas

Have you seen all the wonderful things you can make inspired by Valentine’s Day?

FIND HOW HERE

LEARN HOW HERE

FIND HOW HERE

AMAZING CARDS HERE

FIND HOW HERE

Which one was your favourite?

Halloween Specials: Scary Food

WELCOME TO THIS YEAR'S

HALLOWEEN SPECIALS!

Did you now that while pumpkins are typically orange, they can also be Green, White, red and grey? Or that it is very rare for a full Moon to occur on Halloween? However, it is predicted to happen in 2020.

Do you want to hear a real-life horror story? Read on...

In 1974, eight-year-old Timothy O’Bryan died of cyanide poisoning after eating Halloween candy. Investigators later learned that his father had taken out a $20,000 life insurance policy on each of his children and that he had poisoned his own son and also attempted to poison his daughter.

Well, if that didn't spoil your appetite, let's indulge in one of the best assets of this holiday. CANDY! And all kinds of goulish food.

Monster biscuits

Some ice drinks for the spookiest party ever

A whole bunch of scary cookies

Boo-tiful Halloween cakes

Try these favourites to cate for all tastes

Gross-looking récipes: disgusting or delicious?

There is room for breakfast too

Pumpkin pie breakfast bake

And finally, some fun recipes you'll love to eat.

Have a frightfully good weekend!

Are you bored?

If the answer is yes, you're doing something wrong. This world is too big to have seen it all, your mind is too infinite to have thought itself out. So go out, talk to someone, ask questions, ask yourself.

What do you want?

If you don't want to be bored, why don't you...

find out about a place you've never heard of before?

ponder the complexities of the animal kingdom?

interview a friend or your mum as if they were a celebrity?

(the crazier the questions the better)

take up a new hobby?

follow the steps of a scrumptious recipe?

recipe here

or read a fantabulous book?

these are some YA releases for 2014

And what do you suggest?

Be curious. Be discovered.

Pumpkin cake recipe

Thanks to our natural display of pumpkins grown in our own orchard, this recipe has become so popular that we decided to post it here for your pleasure and, we hope, that of your cooking skills.

PUMPKIN CAKE RECIPE

Ingredients

For the cake

300g self-raising flour
300g light muscovado sugar
3 tsp mixed spice
2 tsp bicarbonate of soda
175g sultanas
½ tsp salt
4 eggs, beaten
200g butter, melted
zest 1 orange
1 tbsp orange juice
500g (peeled weight) pumpkin or butternut squash flesh, grated

For drenching and frosting

200g pack soft cheese
85g butter, softened
100g icing sugar, sifted
zest 1 orange and juice of half

Method

Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas 4. Butter and line a 30 x 20cm baking or small roasting tin with baking parchment. Put the flour, sugar, spice, bicarbonate of soda, sultanas and salt into a large bowl and stir to combine. Beat the eggs into the melted butter, stir in the orange zest and juice, then mix with the dry ingredients till combined. Stir in the pumpkin. Pour the batter into the tin and bake for 30 mins, or until golden and springy to the touch.
To make the frosting, beat together the cheese, butter, icing sugar, orange zest and 1 tsp of the juice till smooth and creamy, then set aside in the fridge. When the cake is done, cool for 5 mins then turn it onto a cooling rack. Prick it all over with a skewer and drizzle with the rest of the orange juice while still warm. Leave to cool completely.
If you like, trim the edges of the cake. Give the frosting a quick beat to loosen, then, using a palette knife, spread over the top of the cake in peaks and swirls. If you’re making the cake ahead, keep it in the fridge then take out as many pieces as you want 30 mins or so before serving. Will keep, covered, for up to 3 days in the fridge.