by Chris Mosler | Mar 8, 2019 | Afternoon Tea, All Recipes, Baking - Cookies, Cakes, Breads & Biscuits, Cooking, Cooking with Kids, Vegan |
My vegan lemon cupcakes are topped with a zesty lemon glace icing and sprinkled with pretty pastel sugar confetti. They can be rustled up in no time for that last minute bake sale at school, children’s parties or for afternoon tea in the garden – Earl Grey...
by Chris Mosler | Jan 15, 2018 | Afternoon Tea, All Recipes, Baking - Cookies, Cakes, Breads & Biscuits, Cooking, Vegan |
Vegan Chocolate Orange Muffins, light and fluffy, sumptuous and pillowy, rich and indulgent – everything we are told vegan food is not! These gorgeous double chocolate cupcakes make me gasp every time I take a batch out of the oven, I’m still amazed that...
by Chris Mosler | Jun 12, 2017 | Afternoon Tea, All Recipes, Autumn Cooking, Cooking, Desserts and Sweets, Pies, Quiches and Tarts, Vegan |
Today I am in an apple-y mood and am sharing my recipe for a (very) rustic vegan apple tart. This is a vegan dessert which is really easy to throw together and which I make in exactly the same way as I did when I wasn’t vegan. I just swap dairy butter for...
by Chris Mosler | Mar 26, 2017 | Afternoon Tea, All Recipes, Baking - Cookies, Cakes, Breads & Biscuits, Cooking, Latest From Cooking, Spring Cooking, Uncategorized |
Mother’s Day calls for cake and this year I’ve gone for a very indulgent double gin cake – a Gin Ginger Cake with Gin and Lemon Icing because, quite frankly, I deserve it. Two of my boys have spread their wings and flown the nest – one is in...
by Chris Mosler | Sep 27, 2016 | Afternoon Tea, All Recipes, Autumn Cooking, Baking - Cookies, Cakes, Breads & Biscuits, Cooking, Latest From Cooking |
On Sunday we made the most of the sunny autumnal equinox weather. We strode out through field and forest, foraging for the last handfuls of blackberries to make these double chocolate and blackberry muffins. Did you gasp when you saw that photo? I did! I wish I could...
by Chris Mosler | Jun 22, 2016 | Afternoon Tea, All Recipes, Baking - Cookies, Cakes, Breads & Biscuits, Cooking, Latest From Cooking, Summer Cooking |
The lavender in my garden is just coming into flower, I’ve been watching it like a hawk, waiting to pounce so that I could make a batch of these beautiful lavender biscuits to mark Midsummer! Lavender is thought to have come to our shores with the Romans who...
Hello! I'm Chris, vegan lover of life, wordsmith, storyteller, picture taker, mum to four. Welcome to Thinly Spread where I share recipes, kitchen stories, travels, adventures and family warmth from our home in deepest Somerset and our boat in Poole.