Banana and coffee cream cake is a delicious, creamy layered dessert combining bananas and coffee in perfect harmony. A light cocoa sponge soaked with coffee is topped with silky coffee custard cream, fluffy whipped cream, sweet bananas and a generous
Spitzbuben are delicious buttery sandwich biscuits with their characteristic little “window” filled with jam. They are a traditional part of Advent and Christmas celebrations in German-speaking countries and originated in South Tyrol. Their British counterpart
Deliciously crisp blueberry oat squares with a wonderful sweet-and-tart flavour and a subtle hint of lemon. They’re incredibly quick to make, require no mixer, and the recipe couldn’t be simpler. Even if you’re new to baking, you’ll have no trouble making
A traditional Polish murzynek with the warm flavours of festive spices. This richly chocolatey cake is wonderfully aromatic, beautifully moist thanks to the addition of plum jam or plum butter, and stays fresh for several days. It’s a quick and easy way to satisfy any chocolate craving
A wonderfully simple yet incredibly delicious chocolate loaf cake. Thanks to the addition of cherry jam, it’s exceptionally moist and stays fresh for several days. This is a small-batch recipe – just enough to satisfy a craving for something chocolatey. You can also
Before the weekend, I prepared a classic Prague Cake (Tort Praga) for you – a rich chocolate sponge layered with a silky buttercream made with sweetened condensed milk, finished with a glossy chocolate glaze over a thin layer of apricot jam.
A gingerbread cheesecake, although nothing stands in the way of calling it a cake. An incredible combination of many noble festive flavours: warming spices, cheesecake, rum, cinnamon, plum preserves and Amaretto… The cheesecake and gingerbread layers are baked
Drunken Plum Cake is a layered cake filled with Nutella cream, plum preserve and, most importantly, plenty of dried prunes soaked in rum. It’s perfect for Christmas or later for New Year’s Eve celebrations! A family-sized cake that’s ideal for sharing, served as neat
A flawless no-bake cake with a whipped cream, coconut filling and blackcurrant jam. This festive coconut zebra cake with blackcurrant jam stands out on the Christmas table with its beautiful colours. Everyone loves it, and it looks as though it is covered in
Rye shortbread cookies are my children’s favourite cookies; they disappear so quickly. I appreciate them for how easy and quick they are to make, as well as for the addition of rye flour. The girls fill them themselves with their favourite jam, and because rye flour
These chocolate cherry cupcakes by Nigella Lawson (from How to Be a Domestic Goddess) taste absolutely wonderful. They are soft, delicate and beautifully fragrant, while the cherry jam keeps them wonderfully moist. I will definitely be returning to this recipe very soon
These sweet yeast buns filled with jam taste exactly like the bakery buns I remember from childhood. The dough itself is simple and uncomplicated, with no eggs and no fancy ingredients, yet the recipe is wonderfully reliable and produces beautifully soft, fluffy
These custard cookies were inspired by the very first recipe in the wonderful cookbook Sweet by Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh, but this time they are based on my own recipe for the simplest butter cookies. All it takes is adding custard powder
Here’s the recipe for a chocolate orange marmalade cake that became the very first bake after moving house — partly to get to know the new oven and partly to use up a few jars of orange marmalade. Although it’s not exactly seasonal, the cake turned out beautifully.
One of those bakes you start making in spring and keep returning to until late autumn — simply swapping the fruit depending on the season. It’s wonderfully tasty and very delicate (best served with a spatula, as it can crumble easily). Not overly sweet, either.
A chocolate and rose cake with raspberries — perfect not only for Valentine’s Day, but for any occasion (or no occasion at all!) when you want to treat someone special. Soft chocolate layers are filled with delicate rose cream, raspberry jam and fresh raspberries.
A simple yet delicious no-bake Lotus Biscoff cake. It’s made with layers of Biscoff biscuits, a creamy mascarpone filling enriched with Biscoff spread, a layer of blackcurrant jam to balance the sweetness, and finished with a silky Biscoff topping. It’s incredibly
A quick, autumnal pear cake with the addition of hazelnuts and chocolate. Personally, next time I’d skip the chocolate and simply enjoy the delicate nutty sponge infused with the aroma of pears ;). This pear, hazelnut and chocolate cake is very quick to make if you have a food processor