Baking Garlic, Cheese and Spinach American Biscuits!

You may remember about a week ago we had a baking day and made some 'pupcakes'. We decided to have a go at something a little different today, American Style Biscuits. They're thicker and softer than traditional English biscuits, they're kind of a cross between a biscuit and a scone? Anyway, we made some in a garlic, cheese and spinach flavour, which went down well with the girls. (I wouldn't recommend these for humans, bit of an odd combination for our sweet biscuit loving palates!)

Sampling their treats;

Lily decided to try stealing a chunk and running off...

Tut tut!

The recipe we used;
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 cup butter chilled, cut into pieces
2/3 cup milk - reduce milk slightly if adding wet ingredients for flavour

Bake at 450F for 12-15 minutes, allow to cool and tear in half to serve. Makes 12.

For the garlic, cheese and spinach flavour just add 1/2 tablespoon garlic paste OR 1 finely chopped clove, a small handful of grated chedder and a generous palm full of roughly chopped spinach.

We'll be doing another baking post in a few days, we're going to have a go at some traditional English type biscuits, the thin crunchy kind!

Love & licks,
Rio, Jonny, Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe, Lily and Lola.
xo 

Baking Pupcakes!

Today we decided to do a little baking! I've done bits and pieces for the girls before, but today we decided to share the experience... We made honey muffins with a banana and vanilla cream cheese topping! These muffins are edible by humans (Jonny ate 3, minus the topping, he had icing on his) but the girls seemed to prefer it when they were eating them... I wonder why!

Our Pupcakes!

 Pre topping;

With topping;

Taste testing;

Mm yummy!
We can't stop laughing at all the big eyes and long tongues :')

Sharing;

The mysterious cake stealing Chihuahua that appears from the shadows only for delicious pupcakes;

The cakes are 100% dog safe and although they aren't super fattening, I do only give the girls a piece or 2 a day, so this batch of 12 will last them a good few days, although we'll probably send some over for Alfie, we best get a move on though before they're...

...all gone!

The recipe we used; 
2 cups all purpose flour 
3 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 cup sugar 
1/2 teaspoon salt 
1 egg 
1 cup milk 
1/4 cup butter (melted)
1/4 cup honey

Bake for 15-18 minutes at 400F/200C. Makes 12.

For the topping you need to combine 1 small/medium pot of natural banana yoghurt, 2 tablespoons of cream cheese, a drop of vanilla essence, 1 teaspoon icing sugar and 1/4 cup pouring cream (whipped).
Refrigerate for 30 minutes prior to piping, helps firm it up a treat ;)

You could also do different flavours - Apple and Cinnamon, Carrot cake, Peanut butter, Vanilla, Ginger, Pumpkin, Mint etc etc. There's so many to choose from :O

We hope you have a go at making your very own pupcakes and we hope they're super yummy!

Love & licks,
Rio, Jonny, Buffy, Rafferty, Monroe, Lily and Lola.
xo 

Oh dear me :(

Well our day started off well enough, we all had a lovely long lie in with plenty of snuggles, then Uncle Liam came to visit :D

It went a little downhill for Buffy after that...

Little baby Buffy wanted upsies on Mummy's knee, but instead of asking politely she tried to jump up and hit her poor little head on the desk!!! She's fine now but she gave us all a fright!

Other than that all we really have to say is that Monroe is doing really well and tried some new food today, she had banana mashed up with yogurt, it well down well so thumbs up :) Yesterday the girls all had chicken, garlic, peas, carrots, swede and rice, which they seemed to like, so that's another recipe to add to our book (Y) We're looking at buying some cocotherapy coconut oil soon, so we'll post about that too!

That's all for now folks, picture post and more news tomorrow.

Love & licks, Rio, Buffy, Rafferty & Monroe.

P.s Happy 1st of May! :)

Also, if anyone ever wants any recipes, just comment letting us know and we'd be happy to share!