Category Archives: desserts This tart is delicious and tastes even better a couple of days after you’ve made it, so it’s a perfect make-ahead dessert. The filing is a simple brownie-like cake and the crust is a favorite cheesecake base of mine, made even tastier with the addition of crushed pecans. Chocolate tart with pecan crust 8″ or…  Oh the dilemma of what to do with an abundance of apples. Liv, my lovely Kiwi lodger, has been spending some time in Suffolk lately and keeps returning with more and more apples, and so the pile keeps on growing, as does the challenge of what to create with them. So far we’ve had apple…  Four days to Halloween! I know because my youngest daughter Hanna is quite literally counting down. The girls really wanted to throw a Halloween party this year, so to get ready we’ve been doing some serious decorating which included taking a trip to the pumpkin farm to hunt out the best candidates for our Jack-O-Lanterns….  Last week was Emily’s birthday and icing cookies is always a huge hit as a party activity. I have the set-up down to a fine art these days as we decorate cookies at their parties every year. As you can see from the photo’s above the kids do a fantastic job, the icing dries really…  Oh the smell of toasting Hazelnuts! Not only is this one of the most moist, delicious cakes I have ever had the pleasure of making and tasting, but it also leaves your home smelling all nutty and divine. As caking making goes, I admit this is a little more involved than most and if you…  Having had it pointed out to me recently that my new favourite store bought snack bar for when I’m on-the-go is nutritionally quite crappy, I decide it was time to make myself a healthier alternative, with goodness and taste that I can pop into my bag before my usual whirlwind exit from home each morning. I…  So I’m back in the much cooler climate of South East England for the foreseeable future and in the midst of setting up my Brighton seaside home. First weekend, blue skies, a visit from a good friend and time to christen my new kitchen (oh how I’ve missed having somewhere to cook). Liz is a…  I confess I have been using this same sponge recipe with it’s rich chocolate butter icing for years now so it’s truly tried and tested. The original recipe came from the mother of one of my former boyfriends and although the boyfriend is gone this chocolate cake and I are meant for each other. I…  2010 Holiday Cookie Swap | Recipe 1 It’s the season and all that, and this year Lorna and Mum are heading to join us for Christmas in New York! I am very excited about having them here for the holidays and although I know it’s going to be a really rough time for all of…  What can I say, another Ottolenghi inspired recipe. I searched high & low for the right sort of flaked almonds in Barcelona, but in the end these were made in the North of England whilst on a trip back home. Very easy to make, these went down incredibly well with ice cream & coffee as…  Okay Becky this one is for you. I was just trying to think where we were when I first had the pleasure of tasting it, I believe in your parent’s wonderful old kitchen at Well Cottage. Since then I have made it more times than I can begin to count, which is perhaps why my…  A very good friend of mine in London recently passed this recipe on to me with the caveat that I report back and send her photographs of the finished product. Well it worked and for a while I became slightly obsessed. I literally found myself making biscotti into the night trying out different flavour combinations…. |
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