Never let anyone tell you you are too late! This fruit cake can be made at any time at all- even the day you want it. It’s a boiled fruit cake that can be mixed all in one pot before baking. It really is as simple as that. No marinating no creaming just mix, simmer…
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Pastry. How to make Shortbread pastry
This is one of my most secret recipes. I have used it for about 20 years to rave reviews. Now it’s your turn to make it. Here’s my ultimate guide on how to make Shortbread Pastry Making pastry at home is not as hard as you think. Shortbread pastry is very forgiving and bakes up…
Strawberry Frangipane Tart, heart felt baking.
Strawberry Frangipane Tart is a real treat when you have an abundance of Strawberries. This has a classic almond meal filling thats light and unfussy. Make it ahead of when you need it for a relaxed spin on dessert. If there are no strawberries try other fruits such as nectarines, peaches or poached pears, quinces…
Lemon Tart with Mango and Passionfruit it’s Vegan
This Vegan Lemon Tart will leave you wanting more. Its light and extra lemony and goes well with Mango and Passionfruit Vegan Desserts You would have to have been living under a rock to not have tried some kind of Vegan dessert by now. Veganism has crossed the road and got to the other side…
Buttercream secrets + Severed Finger Halloween Cake
I am going to share a recipe for the best most intense buttercream EVER. It’s a real game changer . I have the secret to Intense buttercream. Ramp up your cakes in the simplest and cheapest way possible with this intensly beautifully flavoured buttercream. You will be amazed at how simple this is to get…
Nutella Peanut Butter Cookies. Love these <3
These Nutella Peanut Butter Cookies make the very best munchies and the very best gift for someone too. Everyone loves Chocolate….don’t they? These little cookies are really the easiest little fellas. They have 4 ingredients, the two most important being the nutella and crunchy peanut butter, oh how I love those two. I made a…
Soda Scones. 5 Minute Strawberry Chia Jam
Soda Scones you will love. Scones. So simple yet so often a failure. These No Fail Soda Scones will be a keeper I promise. I shared a recipe for an instant party last week. My Orange Vodka Soda Splash was made using my new SodaStream machine and these scones too are made with the lovely…
Banana Peanut Butter Cookies
These Banana Peanut Butter cookies are probably the easiest thing you will ever make. Yes I know that scooping the peanut butter from the jar and eating it from a spoon is even easier but…..this is the next best thing. I love peanut butter without reservation. The crunchier it is the more I love it….
Blood Orange Loaf Cake. Gluten free.
This Orange Loaf Cake is easy to make. I used Red Belly Blood Oranges to make it even more delicious. This Blood Orange Loaf Cake is really quite the stunner. It is easy too, you just need to make it using a food processor, throwing in all ingredients to just combine. It literally takes minutes….
Double Mandarin Shortbread- Reposted
These mandarin Shortbread make citrus season so worth enjoying. They are an easy shortbread you can make in the food processor. double mandarin Shortbread use every part of the beautiful orange fruit. Double Mandarin Shortbread The beauty of colour. It’s inspiring. The immense wonder in the deep green of the sea to the orange of…
Chocolate Banana Upside Down Cake
Chocolate, caramel and bananas are of course a perfect match and this Chocolate Banana Upside Down Cake is so easy you’ll be making it all the time. I woke up the other day and wondered just why I hadn’t thought about making this before. Seems obvious. Chocolate Banana Upside Down Cake. I know most people…
Self Saucing Apple Caramel Pudding
This Self Saucing Apple Caramel Pudding is like an apple pie and a sticky date pudding all rolled into one. It’s the sort of special dessert you can make when its cold or when you want to spoil someone. Stir it together and bake in next to no time at all. What you get is…
Gruyere Cheese Tart Marmalade onions
This Gruyere Cheese Tart has to be one of my favourite recipes. There is not much better than short crusted golden pastry with a creamy Gruyere filling. The onions are marmalade infused and the perfect match. Not diet food but don’t let that stop you… This Gruyere Cheese Tart is the recipe I promised you…
How to make basic Savoury Pastry.
I promised you didn’t I? Here’s the next guide to Pastry making. This time How to make basic Savoury Pastry. Give it a try. You’ll find you have it mastered in no time. OK so, making this Savoury Pastry is pretty much the same as making the sweet pastry only without the addition of a…
Chocolate Zucchini Cake. Hidden Goodness. Video
I don’t tell anyone this is a Chocolate Zucchini Cake till they have said how much they love it. That way those people that don’t like hidden goodness can’t complain. Oh Yeah, it’s gluten free too. This is my favourite cake lately. Chocolate Zucchini Cake. It’s kind of my go to health food. Ha, had…
Carrot Cake Lamingtons. Two classics rolled into one.
These easy stir together Lamingtons will surprise you. There’s no dry sponge cake here. No, what I have here is amazingly moist Carrot Cake crossed with a Lamington. All you need to do is stir some carrots into a cake and bake! Carrot Cake Lamingtons. Yum. There’s nothing more therapeutic than dipping cake pieces…