Use this Betterware promotional code to get a free Star Design Cupcake stand when you spend £20 or more. The Star Design Cupcake stand is worth £10.99, although it is on sale right now for £5.99 if you just fancy getting a nice cupcake stand.

Click here to use your Betterware promotional code

• Discount: Star Design Cupcake Stand
• Promotional code: STARBAKER
• Expires: 15th March 2013

To use this code, go to the Shopping Basket page and enter it in the Betterware Discount Code box. It will appear automatically on your bill.

I have to warn you. Betterware is one of those homeware catalogues that you can start browsing and then find that half your day has gone. Just so you know, and don't come complaining to me when you find it is school pick up time and you've done absolutely nothing except look at tea towel holders and laundry accessories.

This beautiful stand is the perfect way to show off your cupcakes, and is ideal for afternoon tea or parties! Collapses for easy storage when not in use. Holds 12 cakes. Measures 24 x 24 x 24cm.

Thanks to Syzable at HUKD!

I really like the look of these four individual Hell's Kitchen casserole pots, I rather like the idea of only paying £19, instead of £50, for them too.

• Click HERE to take a look at the Hell's Kitchen casserole pots *

I'm really in the mood for a scrummy warm winter casserole or stew now! There are few dinners more comforting, to make and eat, than a good stew with dumplings - especially when it's freezing cold and foggy outside, like it is (for me, at least) today.

These little Hell's Kitchen casserole pots measure 12cm across (16cm if you include the handles) and just 6cm high, without the lid;  they're a much more fun, and interesting, way to serve scrummy stews, than in a bog-standard bowl I think.

You've got until 11.59pm tonight to buy your Groupon voucher and then until 26 December to place your order with James Russell (I've bought things from them before and their service is always exemplary).

Delivery costs are an additional £3.95 and you're asked to allow seven working days for delivery, so - if you want them in time for Christmas Day then really should order them as soon as soon as you can redeem your voucher, there are only nine working days left and that includes Christmas Eve!

Happy individual casseroling!

Amazon are selling this Morphy Richards 48718 6.5 litre slow cooker for £29.99 - it's full retail price is usually £49.00.

• Click HERE to take a look at this Morphy Richards slow cooker *

It's that time of year again: the nights are drawing in (fast!) and the temperatures are dropping - wrapping up in cosy jumpers and eating warm hearty stews are definitely what's required.

If you don't have a slow cooker, then get one! They're amazing things, I'm completely in love with mine and this particular Morphy Richards Slow Cooker has the following features:

• Capacity 6.5 litres
• With 3 settings, low, medium and high
• Toughened glass lid to monitor cooking without letting heat escape
• Cooking vessel can be put directly onto the table
• Dishwasher proof cooking vessel
• Non-slip feet
• Cool-touch handles

There are few things easier than cooking in a slow cooker: chuck everything into the pot, switch it on, leave it for a few hours, come back and dish up the most scrummy and amazing food that required minimal effort - seriously, if there isn't a slow cooker in your life you need to get one.

Happy slow cooking!

Last year Halloween hit me like a ton of spooky bricks. I was way too late to make fun cakes and take advantage of all the totally fantastic ideas that people came up with. So, to give you time to get the ingredients or be inspired, here are some of the best, most unusual and craziest cupcake ideas for your Halloween party.

The Works currently has a sale on cookery books that’s up to 80% off and they have a discount of 10% on all orders with Marvel using the code, well, Marvel. I am not sure if you can use that code to get 10% off all orders – the wording is tricky – but you can certainly try!

• Click here to get baking and reading with The Works

The Works is on a baking kick with tons of cool books reduced by big amounts. You can find titles from the likes of Mary Berry, River Cottage, James Martin, and plenty others in the sale, and all of them would make fantastic Christmas gifts or presents for yourself…

There are books reduced by percentage prices from 50 to 80 and there are also special offers of two for £5 to look out for – like the Fast Cakes book by Marky Berry. Books sitting at reductions in the 70s include The River Cottage Year, Phil Vickery’s Puddings, Delia’s Frigal Food, Gregg’s Favourite Puddings and Aggie’s Family Cookbook.

ASDA has reduced the price on the Kidchen children’s baking set from £5 to £4. This may not seem like a huge discount, but that £1 takes the price to pretty darn low for a 12 piece baking set. In fact the cost per item works out to as little as 33p each. Nice one!

• Click here to get baking with ASDA

The ASDA Kidchen baking set comes with five measuring spoons in 1.25ml, 2.5ml, 5ml, 7.5ml and 15ml. You also get a silicone bear and star mould – so cute – and cutters in the shape of a half moon, a circle, a star and a heart.

The 12 piece baking set has a wooden rolling pin and a spoon, a silicone brush with a wooden handle, a silicone spatula with a wooden handle and a stainless steel mini whisk. I have to say that I think this is excellent value for money and would make a superb addition to the Christmas tree collection.

Thanks to goonertillidie at HUKD!

How cool is this enormous bag of kid’s cookie cutters for under £2? I think that this is a brilliant price and a lovely deal, especially with Christmas coming and all those lovely Christmas cookies that need making and baking. Yippee!

• Click here to get cutting with ASDA

The ASDA Cookie Cutters are a great item for the kitchen for anyone who loves to bake. The assortment of 25 different shapes will keep you and the kids busy for hours as you whip up all sorts of cool cookies for friends, family members and other innocent victims and bystanders.

These cookie cutters are a lovely way of introducing your little ones to the kitchen and the fun of baking, especially when they realise they can personalise these to their little heart’s content. Great fun and ever so cheap. Oh, and you can buy FOUR bags for £6. Get them as gifts!

Thanks to taswir1 at HUKD!

This seems a very decent price for the Logik stainless steel food processor at Currys. Originally on sale for £29.99, this Logik L22FPS10 food processor is down to £19.99, saving you a tasty £10. You can also arrange to collect instore to save on delivery charges.

• Click here to get processing at Currys

The Logik food processor is 400W and has two speed levels and can hold up to 2.2 litres. It definitely isn’t a top of the range food processor and won’t be able to do a lot of fancy stuff, but it will do the job nicely without costing you a fortune.

The stainless steel food processor comes with a 2.2 litre mixing bowl and a 1.5 litre liquidiser jug so you can make anything from cakes to smoothies with ease. There are two speed settings and pulse control and you get the s-blade and the slicing/shredding disc to get the job done quickly and efficiently.

Thanks to barky at HUKD!

Yes, it is ASDA Home Event time and they’ve got a bunch of items on sale with some truly tasty discounts. You can choose from all sorts of lovely home goodies that won’t cost the Earth – a perfect way to prep for winter and to even get some nice and early Christmas presents sorted out.

• Click here to get some homeware from ASDA

The ASDA Home Event deals that have caught my eye include the Breville Fast Boil Trad Kettle that is down to £22 from £34.96, the Breville two-slice red (oooh) toaster from £29.96 to £22, and the Breville Hot Cup that was £49.96 but is now £30. Not enough for you?

How about the Daewoo Gloss Microwave from £64.96 to £50, or the Hinari Genie Multi Blender that was £29.96 but is now £20, or the gorgeous red cafetiere that was £8 but is now only £4. You can also get the RH black cylinder vacuum from £37, the Shanghai dinner set for £20, the Stepped Red Toaster for £5 and the Tefal Banquet pan for £40 instead of £80.

Now this is an interesting review. I got the ASDA Chosen by You Cake Pop Kit which includes everything you need to create six sparkly cake pops. The set costs a very, very reasonable £2.98 at ASDA, but is it worth the dosh?

Inside the very simply designed box you get several bags with the cake pop mix, chocolate frosting, chocolate flakes and sparkly golden flakes for decoration. You blend the cake pop crumbs with the chocolate frosting to create a thick paste that you then roll into balls and pop into the fridge. You need to insert the sticks before you refrigerate.

Once the cake pops have set, you are to melt the chocolate flakes to create a liquid, roll the cake pops in the liquid and then sprinkle with gold flakes. What was very, very clever was that the box in which the cake pops come has holes poked in the back and a reinforced block of cardboard so you can place the finished cake pops vertically in them. Smart and impressive use of packaging (that’s recyclable too!).

Our kit went very well indeed right up until the point where we needed to a) melt the chocolate and b) roll the cake pops in it. I accidentally overcooked the chocolate which went thick and grainy. #fail. Then, once I had somewhat repaired the chocolate, when we rolled our cake pops in it they either fell to pieces, fell off the sticks or happily went onto the cake pop stand only to slide down the stick and land in a gooey mess at the bottom.

Out of six cake pops we made one perfect one. The rest broke and got eaten immediately. The last cake pop had the hardened chocolate shell and looked and tasted great. These are not gourmet cake pops, they are not the best cake pops, but they are cheap, cheerful and fun to make.  The big selling points here are that the packaging is cleverly made and recylable, the price is good, the kit is easy for kids to make and they taste ok. The negatives are that the cake pops don't actually stay on the sticks and the mixture is too dry to work properly.

How can anyone resist the wonders of Nutella? Well, quite. This amazing, delicious and wonderful stuff is on sale at Poundland for only £1. That is an astonishingly good price for an expensive and very tast treat that no adults and small children can resist.

• Click here to spread some hazelnuts at Poundland

I utterly love Nutella and so does everyone else in the family. It is very hard not to gallop to the kitchen, whip out a spoon and eat it straight out of the glass. I have never, ever been able to eat Nutella on toast or bread - that seems a tragic waste of tasty goodness - but I can eat it neat or bake delicious cupcakes and cakes with it. In fact, if you Google for Nutella recipes, prepare to be amazed, or share one of your tasty treats here!

Anyway, £1 for a tub of Nutella seems excellent value to me so get in there and grab your Nutella as fast as you can. I know that we will....

Thanks to CRACKER33 at HUKD!

Currys is selling this ace Essentials four slice toaster for only £3.97. That’s an insanely good price for a basic toaster that gets the job done. It is only available for reserve and collect instore so make sure that you have a Currys nearby. The Essentials toaster originally sold for £9.19 so you are saving over half price at £5.22.

• Click here to get toasty with Currys

The Essentials four slice toaster is white, toasts four slices of bread at the same time (heheh, sorry), and even has a defrost function which is very useful indeed. And, if I am honest, at this price it is a feature I didn’t expect at all.

The Essentials toaster doesn’t get great reviews with an overall score of only 6.4 out of ten, however, for this price it is a nice and simple toasting solution that will colour-match most kitchens. You can adjust the browning temperature and you can cancel mid toast should you so desire.

Thanks to z11 at HUKD!

I really like this deal. My daughter loves baking but complains that she doesn’t have an apron and I keep forgetting to get her one. This gorgeous little Princess Girl’s Chef Set includes an apron and a chef’s hat in pink for only £2.99 at Argos.

• Click here to get cooking with Argos

The set used to cost £7.14 so you are saving half off the original price. It is made from 100% cotton and the apron is 60x45cm in size. This is also one of those odd, but lovely, Argos Free Delivery deals which means you can buy this set for under £3 and get it delivered to your front door. Nice!

There isn’t an awful lot that a person can say about a pink cooking outfit really. There is a Princess logo on the front of the apron, along with a handy little pocket and white straps for securing it on the neck and back. It is very, very cute and well worth getting for your little chef.

Thanks to mk2010 at HUKD!

This adorable little milk and biscuits set from the Charlie & Lola series of books and TV shows is too cute for words. I am gutted my daughter is now too old to enjoy this! Originally on sale for £10, it is now down to half price at £5 and you can arrange to collect instore for free.

• Click here to drink some milk and biscuits with House of Fraser

The Charlie & Lola milk and biscuits set is gorgeously painted with the Charlie & Lola themes and imagery – like those fluttery butterflies. It consists of a mug and a plate, both made from porcelain and covered in pictures.

The set is dishwasher and microwave safe but you can’t put them in the oven. Not sure why you’d want to though…

This would make a stunning present for any kid who loves the show. I adore Charlie & Lola, it’s one of the best things around.

Thanks to dudebar at HUKD!

If you dash over to Argos, you'll be able to pick up a stainless steel steamer, that fits over most regular saucepans, for just £4.99 - its normal price is double that.

• Click HERE to take a look at this stainless steel steamer

So we (should) all know by now that it's much better to steam your veg than boil the living daylights out of it.  You didn't know that?  Well it is, it prevents all their goodness and nutrients being lost and means you don't end up with soggy grey mush on your plate (that's how we identified broccoli and sprouts when we had lunch at my nan's).

You can buy dedicated steamers but they can be a bit on the pricey side, and sometimes you only want to steam a few pieces and using an entire steamer for that is like using the proverbial sledgehammer to crack a nut.

This stainless steel steamer, then, seems like a good and very cost effective solution to me; simply sit it over the top of saucepan of boiling water.

It has two tiers, can be used to steam meat and fish too (steamers aren't just for veg!), has a glass lid and double stainless steel handles and is dishwasher safe too; reviews are great too, fabulous.

Thanks to Wadjet at HUKD

Now this is an excellent deal for the burgeoning little chef in your home. Wilkinson have reduced this silicone baking set designed specifically for kids from £6 to £2, a nice saving of well over half the original price.

• Click here to get baking with Wilkinson

Is it just me or is there suddenly a ton of baking deals at the moment? It must be all this Diamond Jubilee spirit inspiring people to pick up whisks and start creating all sorts of frothing wonders. Well, this particular deal is a great starter kit for any home, kids or not.

This 18 piece baking set is astonishingly good value for money. There is absolutely no description on the website about what you get so I am going to have to guess from the picture. There are cookie cutters, a sieve, a spatula, a rolling pin, silicone cupcake cases, a jug, a whisk and some worrying tweezer looking things.

And if this deal is not up your alley, there are loads of others like the train mould that’s only 50p or the kitchen spatula set that’s only £1. Lots of lovely deals here. I am so nabbing them.

Thanks to taswir1 at HUKD!

Amazon are selling this rather funky looking cow print kid's kitchen set for £11.99, rather than its usual £19.99.

• Click HERE to take a look at the cow print kitchen set

I know this is for kids but I'm tempted to buy this for Tamsin's birthday (ssshhh, don't tell her!) because she is rather partial to anything featuring cow print!  She's also been on a baking 'thing' for the last year or so, so it would be the perfect 'little something daft' to mark the day of her arrival into the world.

The cow print kitchen set comes with a mini silicone spatula, a pastry brush, a rolling pin and cow-shaped mixing bowl which doubles up as a storage jar for all your biscuits, cakes and cookies - if they ever last long enough to be stored, nothing baked hangs around for more than two minutes in my house!

It also comes with a 12 month guarantee and in a presentation box too, making it ideal to give as a gift.

If you have a budding little chef in your family,  and you want to encourage them on their way to their first Michelin star, then this cow print kitchen set may be just the thing for them.

Thanks to wishihadadonkey at HUKD

I recently discovered the ASDA range of products that have been designed to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. They are really well priced and utterly brilliant for that extra dash of colour and splash at your street party.

On Monday I reviewed the tea towel and today the Diamond Jubilee commemorative mug and plate. The rather awesome Diamond Jubilee mug has an identical pattern to that on the tea towel but with the blue border running along the bottom and the lip of the mug. It is lovely, really sturdy and has just coped very well with a run through the dishwasher at the highest temperature setting.

The mug is also only £3 and I think that is fantastic value for something that you can keep for years as a memento of the celebration. It hasn’t faded and the pattern hasn’t cracked and I have used it every day and washed it every day.

Finally, there is the really cool commemorative plate. Now this comes in a gorgeous box that has the same pattern printed on it and the plate lies inside, neatly and securely wrapped in a layer of bubble wrap. I must say that it is not excessively packaged, a good point in its favour, but done in such a way that you can easily re-wrap the plate once you have finished using it.

The Diamond Jubilee commemorative plate from ASDA is great quality. My child picked it up, she loves the range as they are learning about this celebration at school, and immediately dropped it by accident. It did have a soft carpet to land on, but still I was impressed.

The Diamond Jubilee plate is also only £3 and there are lots of other lovely bits and pieces on sale there too, like the teapot and the Union Jack tea towel. It’s a lovely range that will make any street party or garden party look simply lovely!

Yorkshire Tea is giving away a free sample of their tasty tea along with a lovely coupon. All you need to do is go to their Facebook page and enter your details to get the free sample.

• Click here to get your free tea sample from Yorkshire Tea

I have to admit that I am getting a little tired of the whole “free if you like on Facebook” thing. Not only does it mean you get them permanently lurking on your Facebook streams and advertising (and everybody thinks you are odd for liking a tea) but they gather up all sorts of information from you.

This information is a lot more detailed than just filling on a form on a website so choose your freebies wisely! Fans of Yorkshire Tea, or those who think the information gathering thing is of no concern, will enjoy getting their free teabags and a coupon though. So off you go, have fun!

Thanks to andywedge at HUKD!

M&S has reduced this ace 24cm non-stick aluminium griddle pan to only £4. You will see that the price is £5 on the site but, thanks to their Home Event, 20% will be taken off the price at the checkout which takes it down to £4. Nice.

• Click here to get cooking with M&S

The 24cm non stick griddle pan has a double layer of non stick coating which is ideal for healthier cooking and easy cleaning. It also means better looking food – there are few things as frustrating as having to scrape food off the bottom of the pan because the non stick has worn off.

The cookware is designed to be hard wearing and long lasting (their promise, not mine) and it can withstand extreme temperatures. The handles are riveted for extra durability and strength and it is also dishwasher safe. The price of this cookware is extraordinary and you may want to beetle about the shop, nabbing other bargains at the same time, so you can really make use of that 20% discount.

Thanks to Husain_kola at HUKD!