With spring just around the corner, it’s worth experimenting with colour :). Today’s yeast bread comes in three colours: green, brown and white. It’s a simple yeast bread made without eggs. In flavour, it’s similar to traditional challah – a lightly sweet bread that’s delicious
A perfect fig and maple syrup tart. I don’t think you could bake a better fig tart :). The combination of figs and maple syrup is pure heaven. A delicate mascarpone, cream and maple syrup filling, topped with plenty of fresh figs and served with an extra drizzle of maple syrup.
A French apple cake, the recipe itself comes from France. Delicate, moist and absolutely delicious, with a hint of rum and generous chunks of apple. Simply irresistible! Although it’s a simple cake made with basic ingredients, it has a certain French elegance about it ;).
Just sweet enough, this almond and lemon cake with raspberries is wonderfully simple. It had been a long time since I’d used one of Nigella’s recipes, and I’d almost forgotten how easy they can be – just put all the ingredients in a food processor and blitz! This time
Lemon cream and strawberry tart – a wonderful tart with a delicate, refreshing lemon cream made with lemon curd. The cream is so delicious that it’s genuinely hard to resist licking the bowl clean ;). The lemon cream pairs beautifully with crisp shortcrust pastry and
A wonderful, deliciously buttery almond-flavoured Bundt cake. Like any creamed cake, it’s simple to make, and half of the flour is replaced with ground almonds. They’re what keep the cake from becoming dry and help it stay fresh for longer than a traditional
Apple, honey and cinnamon pizza – a delicious dessert for autumn weekends. A lovely sweet pizza, finished with a light drizzle of icing, although you could use salted caramel instead. Whenever I make the dough for Italian pizza, I usually set aside
If you’ve already made strawberry trifle, then you know that strawberries, custard and cream are the perfect combination :). This time – an Éclair Tart for those with a serious sweet tooth. Choux pastry, traditional homemade vanilla crème pâtissière and plenty of fresh strawberries
This Strawberry Forest chocolate tart is deeply chocolatey, almost slightly bittersweet, with a delicious chocolate crème pâtissière filling. If you prefer vanilla cream, simply leave out the chocolate in the final recipe. The tart works beautifully with strawberries
The last few days have been filled with the wonderful aroma of cinnamon. Delicious cinnamon buns for elevenses? Why not! These buns are sweet, but not overly so. They’re also wonderfully fluffy, soft and buttery – pure heaven in every bite. I could wax lyrical about
The best chocolate fruit loaf. This chocolate loaf with prunes and walnuts is dense and substantial, deeply chocolatey and moist without being heavy or stodgy. Packed with plenty of prunes and walnuts, with a hint of orange, it is wonderfully soft. Could this be an alternative
Redcurrant buns with streusel are the taste of summer. They are worth making at least once during the redcurrant season, so you can really enjoy these lovely fruits. You can use black, red or white currants, or a mixture of them. Out of season, use frozen fruit
A no-bake milk chocolate tart with raspberries. The base is a simple biscuit crust, topped with an egg-free chocolate mousse and fresh raspberries – it had to taste good ;). This milk chocolate mousse and raspberry tart is perfect for summer.
Swirled buns with strawberries and sweetened quark, baked side by side, nestled closely together in the tin. The dough is a pleasure to work with – soft, fluffy and delicate. These strawberry and cheese buns are perfect for a picnic or a day at the beach and, most
A charming apple tart that looks like the most beautiful bouquet of roses! You simply can’t take your eyes off it. Rose Bouquet Apple Tart tastes every bit as good as it looks. The best crisp shortcrust pastry, homemade almond crème pâtissière and soft, fragrant
A chocolate cake inspired in both flavour and appearance by the well-known and much-loved Kinder Pingui chocolate bar. Two melt-in-the-mouth chocolate cake layers sandwiched with a light vanilla cream and an additional thin layer of chocolate.
Plum and pistachio cake is a wonderful combination of crisp, buttery pastry, delicate pistachio and almond filling, and juicy, slightly tart plums. The cake is a variation on the classic English Bakewell tart, but it is lighter and fluffier. Instead of the traditional layer of jam, it
A savoury yeast bread packed with popular herbs, garlic and Parmesan. Absolute heaven! Delicious, pull-apart pieces of fluffy, buttery dough, best enjoyed warm, straight from the oven. Don’t even ask how wonderfully it tastes and smells ;). Just try this recipe