I have so many recipes that use bananas as an ingredient that I could almost write a cookery book on those alone. I’m always ready to try a new one, especially as I often find I have over-ripe bananas… The recipes… Read More ›
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Dark Chocolate and Apricot Buns – add a cross and they’re good for Easter too!
As it gets closer to Easter I find myself more and more inclined to both eat and bake buns. In the UK, like many other places, we have hot cross buns at Easter: spiced buns with a pastry cross on top… Read More ›
Valentine’s Day and Double Chocolate Cookies
It’s Valentine’s Day again, which can’t have escaped you, as the shops are full of hearts and flowers. No other time of year will you see so many red roses in one place. I think it’s really just another excuse… Read More ›
Healthy Sweet Treat – Coconut Macaroons
It’s the beginning of the year so everyone is still trying hard to be virtuous and healthy. Which means that the type of dessert I would normally take when invited to dinner is less welcome than at other times of… Read More ›
Nigella’s Banana Bread with Cardamom and Cocoa Nibs
As we all know, you can never have too many banana bread recipes. This one varies slightly from the average as it contains cardamom and cocoa nibs. It’s a good one: not as sweet as a lot of banana breads and it… Read More ›
Happy New Year – and Rocky Road
The New Year is all about detox and diets. Recovering from the excess of the Christmas season. Unless you are under 18, of course, when life carries on exactly the same as before except you have more “stuff”. Rocky Road… Read More ›
Healthy Treats: Raw Almond Balls
Last week we had a coffee morning at my son’s school and I was asked if I would like to turn up in my “professional” capacity, with cakes to sell. I have done a few cake sales now and I… Read More ›
Chocolate Mousse with Avocados from Deliciously Ella
For my birthday recently I was given a copy of the cookbook “Deliciously Ella” written by the blogger Ella Woodward. It’s a lovely book with beautiful photographs: something all us food bloggers can aspire to. Her philosophy centres on plant-based, wholefood living… Read More ›
Chocolate and Ginger Cake
While I love dark chocolate, I possibly love it even more when it is combined with certain flavours: ginger is one of those flavours that works particularly well. So rather than a ginger cake with a touch of chocolate, this… Read More ›
Jamie Oliver’s Cappuccino Cake
Cakes don’t always turn out the way they should, even if you are an “experienced” baker. There is always room for human error! I struggled with this cake from the outset because I didn’t put my faith in the recipe… Read More ›
