I’m starting A Baking Challenge!!!!

Hello everyone, I have big news...........I’m going to start a Baking Challenge!!! While my mother and I was baking and having fun in the kitchen,  getting ready for my tea party, my mother came up with the idea and I think it’s GREAT!! The name will be:

Fortnightly Baking Fun Challenge!

Here is how it works:

I will post a new theme every second Tuesday. You will then have two weeks to enter. The challenge will close on the second Monday night, after the challenge was published.

So that you will have enough time to find your recipe, plan, do shopping, bake and enter!!

Only one entry per person will be accepted to make it fair for everyone!

Post the recipe on your blog, with at least one picture of the finished product.
Please back link your recipe post to my blog, so that when others read your blog they know where to look for the challenge. This way they can enter too and enjoy all the recipes!!
If you don’t have a blog please don’t let that stop you! E-mail it to me, with a picture and I can post it on my blog and enter it on your behalf.

You can vote for the winner!

I will have a beautiful blinkie made for the Winner. Age doesn’t matter. Whether you are a little girl/boy or already a grandma, please do enter.

The aim of the challenge is to encourage mothers and grandma’s with their children to enjoy making food in the kitchen, to share recipes, find new ones and have lots of fun!!!


So on to this weeks challenge:
Something For A Tea!!

Since I had a tea party on Saturday, celebrating my 14th Birthday, I’m challenging you to make 

anything that you could put on a table for a tea. A tart, cake, cookies, sweet or salt. It doesn’t have to be extraordinary. 

Here is my “something for a tea” recipe:

Lemon Squares!!

You will need:

2 x (200g) packs of Tennis Biscuits 

1/4 cup Soft Butter

2 cups of Fine Grade Coconut plus more as needed

1 can (385g) Full Cream Sweetened Condensed Milk 

1/2 cup plus 2 table spoons Lemon Juice

2 1/2 cups icing sugar 

2 tablespoons boiling water 

Little bit of food coloring (optional)

1. Mix well together the butter, coconut, condensed milk and half a cup of lemon juice.

2. Lay a single layer of Tennis Biscuits in a 27cm x 37cm pan, at least 4 cm deep. 

3. Pour the butter, coconut, Condensed Milk and Lemon juice mix over the tennis biscuits.

4. Lay a second layer of tennis biscuits on top.  

5. Mix the icing sugar, hot water and 2 table spoons of lemon juice together and pour over the tennis biscuits.

6. Then sprinkle some coconut on top. (I colored the coconut with red food coloring) If you want to have a colored Lemon square, mix a little bit of food coloring with the coconut and then sprinkle over the icing.

7. Refrigerate for up to a day

8. Take out of the refrigerator and defrost a bit (an hour in winter, 15 minutes in summer) and cut in squares. 

Can be refrigerated for up to 6 months!

Now Please show me your “Something for a Tea” recipes!

Please link directly to the recipe post and not your whole blog, it just makes it easier for me to find it.

Bon appetite!!

Entries close at Tuesday the 26 of July at 12 PM GMT +2.  Voting start immediately after entries close.