Mother’s Day Recipes

By Caro

Here you will find various recipes, sweet & savoury, easy & more difficult. A lot of which, as suitable as a thank you gift for Mother's Day. In the UK it is on Sunday 19th March 2023, & in the States & other countries, 14th May 2023.

3 Mini lemon poppry seed bundts with glaze, ready to be eaten. — *Go to Mini Lemon Drizzle Poppy Seed Bundt recipe*

All recipes include thorough instructions & also a Kids Baking section to get them helping too. Some recipes which I have reviewed, are also suitable. Please note that at this time, not all recipes have been moved over on to this new improved version of the site here. But please check back regularly, as I am adding daily.

Mini carrot bundt cakes decorated and on a cooling rack. — *Mini Carrot Bundt Cakes & Orange Cream Cheese Frosting*

Close up of a lemon poppy seed bundt cake with glaze down the groves.

CAKE RECIPES

Cakes, layer cakes, cupcakes, tray bakes, squares, muffins Swiss Rolls, Gluten-free, we have it all covered.

Go to the Mother’s Day Cakes page, or view all the cakes on the Cake Recipes Page

Close up of plate of chocolate and some coconut topped Digestive cookies.

BISCUITS & COOKIES

EASY CHOCOLATE DIGESTIVE BISCUITS

TRADITIONAL SCOTTISH SHORTBREAD

SOFT CHOCOLATE CHIP CHEWY COOKIES

MARY BERY’S 3-WAYS MINI COOKIES

CRANBERRY, ORANGE & PECAN SCOTTISH SHORTBREAD

SEASONAL TAKE ON JAMMIE DODGERS

More Cookie Recipes

Chocolate orange sandwich cookies in square, circles and Easter shapes on a pale blue background with flowers and easter eggs. — *Go to Chocolate Orange Sandwich Cookies*

Photo of a British scone with cream, jam and strawberry sliced in-between, serve don blue & white Willow tea set and more scones and tea to the background.

BRITISH SCONE RECIPES

Here you will also find my comprehensive tutorials for British Scones, flavoured cranberry spice scones and cheese scones.

For kids, they can try easier, Tear-&-Share Cheese Scones with no cutting out required.

Filo nests with apple and blueberry filling and cream on top.

PASTRY RECIPES

Pies, tarts, and all things pastry. Including lots of pastry tips and know-how.

Luscious Lemony Lemon Meringue Pie!

Apple & Salted Caramel Filo Nests

Sweet Shortcrust Pastry101

Crème Patissière, also known as Creme Pat

Cheese Pastry Twists

Quick Cheese Puff Swirls,

Michel Roux Raspberry Chocolate Tart recipe review

Individual Chocolate Tarts

Individual chocolate tart cut in half on a blue plate served with a strawberry. — *Chocolate Tarts*

Stack of pancakes made from cake layers and fondant with fondant butter and blueberrie son top as well as syrup running down.

FONDANT WORK

Fondant tutorials for cakes and cupcakes.

‘Stack Of Pancakes’ Illusion Cake video

Go To Fondant Tutorials

MERINGUE RECIPES

Diana's meringue nests with cream, creme pat and lemon curd topped with raspberrie son a slate board. — *Mrs D’s Meringue Nests & Lemon Curd*

Collage of pics of a chocolate yule log cake.

GLUTEN FREE BAKING

Gluten free Carrot Cake

Flour-free Gluten Free Chocolate Swiss/Jelly Roll

Gluten Free Chocolate Orange Sandwich Cookies

Gluten Free Chocolate Orange Yule Log

More Gluten Free recipes still to be added

Photo of microwave chocolate fudge pieces with nuts and cranberries, in a small white reacup, with miniture Baileys Irish cream bottle to the side.

EASY MICROWAVE CHOCOLATE FUDGE

Try my super simple and much safer method for making fudge. Perfect as a food gift.

Go to Microwave Chocolate Fudge recipe

Close shot of top of a white teacup of cake truffles.

Tropical Pineapple & Coconut Truffles

A no-bake recipe, that does not require buttercream or cream cheese, these truffles are so good! Dip in chocolate and make them look extra special.

Recycle boxes to place them in, and show you went the extra mile! Flavour with Baileys Irish Cream if it is Mum’s favourite!

Overheat close shot of a black small rectangular box open with 6 cake truffles in mini paper cases on a pure white soft napkin. — *Tropical Truffles*

Go to Tropical Truffles recipe

My son's square scones, very high and filled with raspberry jam and cream, with tea to the background.

KIDS BAKING

Recipes tested & made by my 13 year old son.

His ‘Square’ British Scones

Go to Kids Baking page

BREAD & ROLL RECIPES

Includes some yeast-free quick bread recipes too.

Poğaça – Quicker Turkish Cheese Stuffed Rolls

2 Hour Minute Yeast Bagels

30 Minute Yeast free Cheesy Bread

EASY TEAR-AND-SHARE CHEESE SCONES

QUICKER TEAR-AND-SHARE BREAD ROLLS

CHEDDAR & MOZZARELLA MUFFINS

90 MINUTE PIZZA

Go To More Bread & Roll Recipes

3 photo collage of Turkish Poĝaça rolls stacked, halved and showing white cheese parsley, and cheddar filling., with text. — *Poğaça – Quicker Turkish Cheese Stuffed Rolls*

MORE SAVOURY BAKES

extra close shot of deep brown/red coloured smoked paprika almonds with salt and shinny highlughts.

SMOKED PAPRIKA ROASTED ALMONDS

Go to my Savoury Lessons

Wholemeal muffins with sugar nibbs on a white background with some split apart and on their sides, one on a brown plate and a darl brown mug of coffee

HEALTHIER BAKES

Try my ‘Healthier’ Banana Bread Muffins with partially wholemeal/wheat flour.

Go to Banana Bread Muffins

Or 100% wholemeal flour, in the nutritious Butternut Squash Banana Bread.

Wholemeal Butternut Squash Banana Bread

NO-BAKE RECIPES

Chocolate truffles, some with coconut on the outside, in heart dishes.

No-bake Truffles

A Great no-bake recipe for chocolate truffles, that you cover anyway you like.

Go to Chocolate Truffles recipe

Another, new for 2023 truffle is my Tropical Cake Truffles. These use left-ver cake and cookies, with no need for buttercream or cream cheese to bind. (Photos below).

Tropical Cake Truffles

Also in the collage below is my easier Microwave Chocolate Fudge. Perfect for gifting!

Go to Microwave Chocolate Fudge

4 photo collage of microwave chocolate fudge with Baileys and Tropicak Cake truffles. — *Microwave Chocolate Fudge*, and also *Tropical Cake Truffles*

3 photo collage of pink coloured cheats strawberry mousse in large size and in ramekins with fresh berries.

CHEAT’S STRAWBERY MOUSSE

No need to mess about with gelatine, as this recipe uses packet jelly (jello). Which means you can easily flavour the mousse with your favourite flavour. This is Diana’s Nan’s recipe & she made the large mousse in the pics & I made individual ones in glass ramekins.

Cheats Strawberry Mousse