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It was my boyfriends birthday recently and we had a little celebration with his children. I wanted to have a cake to celebrate properly but due to allergy restrictions couldn't just go to the stop to buy a good ol' Colin the Caterpillar classic. I found a recipe online and adapted a little to suit what I wanted and this was the result!  Rustic and stacked! Ingredients 195g plain flour 130g sugar 1tsp baking powder 1/2 tsp salt 1 tsp white wine vinegar 5 tablespoons vegetable oil 2 teaspoons vanilla extract 140ml water Large marshmallows Sprinkles Preheat oven to 180 degrees. In a bowl, add the flour, sugar, salt and baking powder and mix. Then add the oil, vinegar, vanilla extract and water and mix well.  Once fully combined add this mixture either to a lined cake tin or to cupcake cases. As the mixture is quite thing I first poured this into a jug to make it easier to pour into the cases. We didn\"t have a cupcake tray so, as expected, the cases didn\"t stay upright ...

We had a weekend of celebrating and along with locally made cupcakes, I wanted to make a treat dessert for us myself rather than buying something from the shop.  I’ve not made a cheesecake for a long long time, always intimidated by whether or not to go for one which you bake or a no-bake recipe instead.  I went for no-bake and a simple flavour too.  I opted for a vanilla cheesecake with strawberries on top, although did also have some raspberries to add alongside the strawberries but felt they weren’t needed in the end. Ingredients Base 300g Digestive biscuits 200g Unsalted Butter Topping 750    Full Fat Cream Cheese (I used Philidelphia) 2 tablespoons Vanilla Extract 100g Icing Sugar 300ml Double Cream Strawberries (I used approximately 8) Instructions Base Either use a rolling pin and a food bag/cling film to smash the biscuits into a fine crumb or use a food processor/hand blender.  Melt your butter and add it to the crumb mixture. I mixed this with a w...