not many people are keen on panettone – is it bread or cake? It’s too dry to be cake but not doughy enough to be bread. What do you have it with? How do you slice it? How do you serve it? Are those raisins and bits of candied peel?
Category: Dessert
Pancake Day
Pancake Day aka Shrove Tuesday aka Mardi Gras Shrove Tuesday is once again upon us and everyone will be stocking up on flour, eggs, milk to make their runny batter and have a gluttonous sugary feast before being shriven of these excesses in diet as well as in life. As a child, I was brought…
Cinnamon
Spice prized for both flavour and medicinal properties; the brown coloured, woody spice is evocatively aromatic with warming sweet and savoury notes at the same time.
Frozen Yoghurt
With the heat on the up and summer nearly here these make a great dessert or afternoon treat. Whether you make a containerful to scoop onto cones or as individual popsicles made in shop-bought moulds, kids love them and adults do too!
Pancake Factory
American Style pancakes arrive as a very decent stack of five fluffy pancakes soused in delicious syrups and sauces and a scoop of ice-cream should you wish.
Salted Caramel Panna Cotta
Salted Caramel Panna Cotta Typing those four words has made my mouth water! Classic panna cotta is normally served with a strawberry coulis to off-set the silky-white texture of the creamy panna cotta. At the very least, slices of strawberry or other fruit will be used to finish the dish – even if just as…
Chocolate Chip Cookies
… others prefer a squidgy, fudgy, almost butterscotch, straight out of the oven chocolate chip cookie…
Cake
“The reassuring ritual of quietly weighing out butter, sugar, flour, cracking eggs, whisking, beating and folding”
Let’s get ready to crumble…
A crumble is a great way to use fruit that you bought thinking would ripen and is still rock hard weeks later or a glut of fruit that you bought on offer and you need to use up…fast!
Baked Chocolate Puddings
As a cook, I compartmentalise chocolate into two groups. First: normal everyday milk chocolate bars full of sugar, biscuits, dried fruits or nuts that seduce us with glittery, colourful wrappers; appealing to the inner child. They serve as a mere sugar rush, a boost of energy to keep me going through the day. Second: dark…
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