'Healthy' Blueberry Muffins

I know what you're thinking, the words healthy and muffin aren't usually put together. And if they are the result is usually tough and bitter and just generally an unpleasant experience. However, due to the whole summer aka wearing shorts and bikinis ALL THE TIME situation that has suddenly occurred I decided to try and find a solution to the fact that cakes aren't exactly low in calories.

It took a lot of googling, recipe book reading and consultations with my mum before I finally found a recipe that sounded like it could actually taste nice. And it was blueberry muffins, which is always a bonus because who doesn't love a good blueberry muffin?! Especially in summer, with a glass of lemonade and a really good book (even if it is 50 Shades of Grey -yes I'm talking to all you creeps that read it in public - just why?!) 

So I set about to making BBC Good Foods Blueberry Muffins with 'virtually no saturated fat', making a few adjustments along the way.

Jubilee Cakes Part Two

Okay, so although most people celebrated the Jubilee yesterday, it's actually the official Jubilee on Tuesday with the parade and such. Therefore this post could still come in useful... if not you can just look at the cakes.

As Rosaline said, we love the Queen and the Jubilee and just everything about this ridiculously long weekend. And what better way to honour the Queens Diamond Jubilee than with cake. My street had a street party, and although I avoided the cupcake competition (it was full of five year olds which was slightly embarrassing) I did make a cake and lots of little cupcakes as our contribution to the food side of things.

I thought I was being very original with my cake design, but it turns out almost everyone had the same idea. However one can never have too much cake, and it was all eaten by the end of the evening which in my view indicates success.