Giving cakes: greengage hazelnut tart
Here's a phrase to sum up this day and age: the Dalai Lama is on Twitter. You can follow him today and have daily nuggets ... Read more
Here's a phrase to sum up this day and age: the Dalai Lama is on Twitter. You can follow him today and have daily nuggets ... Read more
Once you've grasped the idea behind a classic recipe, the temptation to play around with it begins to creep in. This was the case of ... Read more
My recent obsessions: gelatine, any involving fresh berries, and Rose Levy Beranbaum, the god-like (to us bakers) author of "The Cake Bible". All three somehow combined in ... Read more
If you ask me, there are three broad categories of strawberries: there's the tasteless stuff you get in supermarkets during the winter months, force-grown in ... Read more
A few days ago my inner mad scientist conspired with my hatred of food wastage and zeroed in on a bunch of basil which was ... Read more
I'd been wondering why a stripey cake has been following me around - not literally - for a while now. Perhaps it's got something to ... Read more
These cardamom cranberry cookies, or the fabulous CCCs, are a twist on the classic oatmeal raisin cookie. With just two little changes to the traditional ... Read more
There's something special about lemon meringue tarts. When I delivered these beauties to my chums at Madgex there was a veritable sugar ecstasy in the ... Read more
How is this for striking a balance in one's daily life: on the same weekend the Sports Relief rolled into town, Brighton was also host ... Read more
"Hazelnut and chocolate cake with nutella icing" sounds pretty enticing. "Toasted hazelnut and chocolate cake with nutella icing" sounds even better. What is it about ... Read more