You can never have too many apple cake recipes. Apple cakes are tasty, healthier and will use up some of your stash if you had a large harvest, or have been given a bagful by a friend. This cake is… Read More ›
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The Best Ever Vegan Cinnamon and Pecan Buns – for Veganuary and Beyond
January gets a bad press. More so this year in the UK when our hopes for seeing the back of the pandemic with the end of 2020 were destroyed with the government announcement of a new lockdown. Just a few… Read More ›
Quince and Almond Cake
I’ve given them away, steeped them in brandy, turned them into jelly, baked them and stewed them. This year’s quince harvest has been a bumper one and it seemed a shame to waste it. They perfumed the kitchen for weeks… Read More ›
Banana and Courgette Loaf – and other new Lockdown skills
Banana bread has become a lockdown cliché for a reason. It’s quick, easy and delicious. It’s an easy introduction to baking, something to pass the time with the kids or a quick way to create a relatively healthy treat using… Read More ›
Friends, Acquaintances and Boston Cream Pie
We all have friends we don’t keep in touch with properly but can pick up where we left off without any resentment or hard feelings. And we have other friends: people we spend time with because circumstances put us together…. Read More ›
Vegan Vanilla Cupcakes
Things don’t always turn out the way you think they will. Life being an obvious example and cake being another. When things don’t work out you have to pick yourself – and the cake – up and try again. And… Read More ›
Healthy Flapjack Bites
It’s not always obvious knowing what is ‘healthy’ and what isn’t. Particularly as it can change quite significantly over time. Remember back when fat was bad and sugar was just sugar? Too much sugar would just rot your teeth and… Read More ›
Gluten-Free Double Chocolate Muffins
For anyone who follows a gluten-free diet, or just wants to reduce the amount of gluten in their diet there are so many options these days in the supermarkets for gluten-free treats. A lot of things that would naturally not… Read More ›
Rhubarb Friands – and The wedding
You may never have heard of Windsor before the Royal Wedding but even if you were trying to avoid the coverage it’s likely that you now know a lot about it. I live on the edge of Windsor Great Park… Read More ›
Chocolate and Hazelnut Torte
If your Instagram feed is anything like mine it will be full of beautiful, quite stylised images. Cakes, flowers, amazing handcrafted items. Ceramics, ‘flat lays’ and scenery. Each image more beautiful than the last. It’s hugely inspiring and quite daunting… Read More ›
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