Lemon and courgette cupcakes with chocolate ganache (kids vlog edition)

These little cupcakes have a secret ingredient - courgettes make them lovely and moist. The idea of lemon and chocolate might sound strange at first, but the combination really worked. Here's Frankie to show you how...

Chocolate brownies (Frankie's vlog)

Today Frankie shows you how to make delicious chocolate brownies. (We made ours with gluten-free flour and baking powder but you can swap these for ordinary wheat flour if you like.)

Christmas Yule Log (kids vlog edition)

I first posted a recipe for a chocolate yule log over a decade ago. Since then it has become an annual staple of our Christmas baking traditions. I've experimented over the years with various tweaks and permutations (one year we made little chocolate pine cones from chocolate icing studded with chocolate cereal crescents - see below).

We've all decided the best version of it is to lean in to the Black Forest theme by including a layer of morello cherries scattered over the cream (which is sweetened with their juice). This year, Frankie made it almost completely by herself - here's how...

The icing on the Christmas cake (kids vlog edition)

After 'feeding' the Christmas cake every week since Stir-Up Sunday, we're finally ready to ice it on Christmas Eve. Here's how we did it...

Christmas cake (kids vlog edition!)

It's Stir Up Sunday and the little star bakers have made their first ever vlog! This is a Christmas cake recipe packed with figs, cranberries, pecans and soaked in hot buttered rum and maple syrup...