I love cinnamon rolls – the Starbucks cinnamon swirl is a total addiction and the fact I work for the company that bakes it makes it worse! In my view, the guys at Fabrique Bakery do the best cinnamon rolls in London and I recently purchased a load there. With a couple left over, couldn’t…
Category: Sweet
Recipe – Battenberg Cake
Iconic! There is no better word. Developed for when Queen Victoria’s daughter married a prince from Battenberg, it’s a classic British cake. For best results you need this specialist tin from Lakeland, however you can use two normal 20x15cm straight sided cake tins but you need to make two cakes, doubling the quantities below and…
Recipe – Chocolate and Beetroot Cake
Yes, that’s correct! A chocolate and beetroot cake. It’s far better than it sounds, the beetroot gives you a fabulous colour and moistness with only a hint of beetroot flavour. There are a few recipes online that don’t really work but this is my version, which uses chocolate chips in the batter, you could melt…
Recipe – Chunky Apple and Cinnamon Cake
The start of autumn brings us lots of windfall fruit, especially apples and pears. There are some wonderful British apple varieties and many of them make a lovely apple cake. This cake can be frozen so if you have a lot of apples, make a lot of cake! You will need: 225g self raising flour…
Recipe – Rustic Peach Tart
This is a really lovely pudding for the summer (or any season!) which is at its best served straight from the oven. I like good ice cream with it, as it melts across the peaches, but you can use cream or just have it naked. If you need a nut-free version, just exchange the ground…
Recipe – Giant Jaffa Cake
Is it a cake or is it a biscuit? HMRC (who no-one can argue with!) agree it’s a cake. Quite right too! And a lovely one at that. But a giant one? It’s amazing and a great dessert centre for a family meal. Here’s my version of a recipe from Delicious Magazine. You will need:…
Recipe – Plum, Apple and Almond Cake
I do love plum season…! We used to live in a house with a Victoria Plum tree and the fruits we got from it were amazing. They do so well in baking and making sauces, we should use them more really. This is a lovely tray-bake cake which uses apple sauce for moisture and less…
Recipe – Almond Macaroons
None of your posh French macarons here, this is one of my favourite traditional British bakers shop biscuits (or are they cakes?!). Crispy on the outside and chewy in the middle, they are divine! The recipe is very simple and your children could easily help. For 10, you will need: 175g golden caster sugar 125g…
Recipe – Swiss Roll with Gluten Free option
Another old-school favourite cake of mine I’ve had a go at creating a gluten free option for. It’s incredibly easy, I promise! You will need: 120g golden caster sugar 130g plain flour (or gluten free alternative) 4 eggs 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1 teaspoon baking powder Half a jar of strawberry jam 100ml double cream…
Recipe – Gluten Free Arctic Roll
My very good friend Dean is wheat intolerant (he’s intolerant about many other things but that’s another story!) I recently asked him if there was anything he genuinely missed and hadn’t found a good gluten free version of. His response? Arctic Roll – that staple of 1970s and 80s dessert tables. I absolutely love Arctic…
