This cake has everything I love most: it’s soft, moist, wonderfully aromatic and packed with juicy strawberries. The almonds and cinnamon give it a lovely depth of flavour, while the fruit makes every slice beautifully moist. It’s incredibly easy to prepare
It is definitely “the easiest cake in the world”. It’s one of those recipes worth keeping close at hand because absolutely any fruit works with it – including frozen fruit. The cake is soft, fluffy, light and not too sweet, and it’s really hard to go wrong when making it.
A quick and healthy jam recipe, and a great way to use up summer fruit from the freezer. This chia seed jam is ready to eat after just 20 minutes – no long cooking and no large amount of sugar required. Chia seeds act as a natural thickener here.
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
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
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
Moist, fluffy and wonderfully fresh for days, this strawberry cake is tall and generous in size, making it perfect for sharing. It’s light and airy thanks to the addition of oil and plenty of milk. The strawberries are delicious, releasing plenty of juice as they bake, which
During the fruit season, I make Pavlova with all kinds of fruit. In summer, it’s easy to save up enough egg whites for a meringue cake – all you need to do is make proper homemade ice cream using egg yolks. This weekend I made a Pavlova with coffee cream and strawberries.
A delicious meringue cake that is soft and marshmallowy in the centre and crisp on the outside. Meringue cake with custard and strawberries is a combination that’s impossible to resist. It tastes wonderful, but like most meringue cakes, it doesn’t keep well and
A fantastic white chocolate cake. There’s a whopping 300 g of white chocolate in the cake! It’s delicate, soft and fluffy straight after baking; as it cools, it becomes denser as the chocolate sets. This is the famous “mud cake”, but made with white chocolate.
An utterly irresistible stracciatella cheesecake with strawberries. It’s impossible to resist! Chocolate and strawberries are a match made in heaven, and this is a combination you simply have to try! And, as an added bonus, there’s no baking involved ;).
An incredibly creamy strawberry layer cake. It has everything you love: vanilla custard, stracciatella cream, strawberries and desiccated coconut. An added bonus is that it requires no baking, which is especially welcome during hot weather :).
An easy and delicious spring-summer bake: buttery shortcrust pastry with rhubarb and strawberries. Perfectly sweet, with a delicious crumble topping made from the same dough as the base, so there’s very little extra work. This makes a generous traybake
Strawberry Concorde cake is a white version of the famous chocolate Concorde cake. Traditionally, Concorde cake consists of chocolate meringue layers sandwiched with a decadent chocolate mousse; here, I have playfully reversed both the colours and flavours. If you love Eton Mess,
Strawberry mousse is a must during strawberry season! This time, I’ve paired it with a pistachio cake. This pistachio cake with strawberry mousse is a wonderful dessert combining strawberries and pistachios: a pistachio cake enveloped in strawberry mousse, finished
The essence of summer. This strawberry and lemon curd cake is made not with a traditional sponge, but with new vanilla cake layers that do not need soaking. Simple to make, with the flavours of lemon curd, strawberries and lightly whipped cream coming
A wonderful and simple summer tart with strawberries and lemon curd! A biscuit base, a light curd cheese filling, a layer of lemon curd (I always keep some in the fridge – I simply can’t be without it!) and juicy fresh strawberries. Could there be a better tart to welcome