Mother’s Day Made Sweeter with Pure Maple Syrup
Banana Bread for Mum. Treat your mum to homemade Maple Banana Bread from Maple From Canada UK! This is a comforting delight perfectly paired with...
Celebration Gateau
From Sainsbury’s Serves: 10 Preparation time: 20 Minutes Cooking time: 20 Minutes Ingredients 175g butter, softened, plus butter for greasing 175g unrefined golden...
Chocolate Eclairs
From BBC Food Raymond Blanc’s recipe for chocolate éclairs is full of tips and advice, including how to freeze. Equipment and preparation: You...
Passion Fruit Drizzle Traybake
From Sainsbury’s A light sponge tray bake with a fruity drizzle topping. Serves: 12 Preparation time: 30 Minutes Cooking time: 30 Minutes Cooling Time:...
Authentic Danish Bakers Ole & Steen Announce Launch of Delicious New Summer Cakes Menu
Ole & Steen celebrate the Midsommar solstice. So far the British summer has been a wash out, cold days, rain, wind and limited sunshine to...
We Love Raspberry Ripple Slices
Gluten, wheat and milk free. We Love Cake was founded in 2002, when the owner tried living as a coeliac for a week. He was...
Nielsen-Massey’s Vanilla Extract
A drop elevates. There is no pleasure greater than baking. Tempting aromas fill one’s home. Even a simple cake speaks of old-fashioned comfort. Not too...
Lewis and Baker Traybakes – A WINNER
Winner – Food Gift 2020 It’s been a funny old year and that unpleasant strangeness will likely last till Easter. Christmas won’t be the usual...
Baking at the 20th Century Café
Iconic European Desserts from Linzer Torte to Honey Cake This book can’t fail! Baking at the 20th Century Café: Iconic European Desserts from Linzer Torte...
Ladurée Teatime
What could be more quintessentially English than afternoon tea? A great location helps, and they don’t come much more iconic than London’s Covent Garden. Add...
Vegetable Cakes
I have just returned from a trip to delicious Thailand. There were curries, refreshing and spiced salads, and noodles aplenty. There were also desserts, and...
Pinocchio Afternoon Tea at The National Theatre – review
It’s snowy in London and it does rather give the impression of a Christmas landscape. At that time of year one’s fancy might turn to...
100 Cakes and Bakes by Mary Berry – review
This is another in the series from My Kitchen Table, offering good-value volumes of easy-to-make recipes, and in the case of 100 Cakes and Bakes...
Balans Soho Society, Seven Dials – restaurant review
I have had many a vibrant Brunch at Balans and I am drawn there for the Eggs in Hell – 2 eggs poached in a...
Yuzu Cupcakes with Matcha Tea Frosting – recipe
Looking for Japanese flavours in a dessert but using traditional Western techniques? This could be the recipe for you. Yuzu Cupcakes with Matcha Tea Frosting...
Afternoon Tea at Home by Will Torrent – review
I was expecting a great book from this well-respected chef, Will Torrent. I wasn’t expecting the volume to have that overwhelming feel-good factor. That comes...
Sprinkles by Jackie Alpers – review
Baking is, thank goodness, enjoying something of a revival. We are reconnecting with some old-fashioned culinary values – the kitchen filled with tempting aromas, a...
Chocolat by Eric Lanlard – yes, its chocolate – review
The world loves chocolate, and combine that with a dashing chef with a rich French accent and recipes for goods that have graced many a...
Celebrity Bake Book – Mary Berry – cookbook review
It’s a feel-good cookbook in every regard. It’s in support of The Ben Kinsella Trust, which was set up to raise awareness of knife crime...
Lotte’s Kitchen with Lotte Duncan – restaurant review
There is no mistaking that this is indeed Lotte’s Kitchen. I am sure an aerial view would show this cafe as a pink blob. This...