Due to the fact that my mother dearest is gluten-free and a huge lover of all things sweet, I’m always on the look out for scrumptious gluten-free cakes that taste great, don’t have that horrible grainy texture that gluten-free cakes often do, and which are actually quite light in consistency. This pistachio lemon cake from…
There are only a few cookies in my repertoire that warrant a cup of tea and a sit down. This is one of them. They are luxuriously soft & tender within with the decadence of dark chocolate and the tart chewiness of the sour cherries. I usually make these much smaller than pictured. But for…
When there are overripe bananas left over in my house, I actually feel happy rather than sad because it means that I can bake banana bread. Admittedly, I usually turn to Dorie Greenspan’s banana bundt cake recipe but recently, I decided to try Nigella Lawson’s recipe from her How to be a Domestic Goddess cookbook. …
I’ll be honest – over the past week I’ve had way too many lemons sitting on my kitchen bench. And I think that now with two children and the fact that Mother’s Day is approaching – it made me reflect back to my childhood. Growing up, my mother rarely made cupcakes; she made pound cakes…
I first made these for my brother. He was studying fervently for his fellowship exam on his birthday and I figured some study snacks wouldn’t go astray! Since then, they have become a favourite of my husband’s – MmMmmm – I wonder why…These divinely moist devil’s chocolate cupcake bases are filled with Nutella, dotted with…
I’ve yet to travel to New York but it’s definitely sitting there on my bucket list as far as travel adventures go. But when I think about baking and New York, I always think about The Magnolia Bakery – possibly because I used to be obsessed with Sex And The City as well as The…
This is a recipe pulled out of the glorious Nigella Express cookbook. I really like this cookbook of hers because it’s a quick, no fuss kind of cookbook with amazing results. I’d never made these puddings before but they were so divinely decadent that I’m sure I’ll be whipping them up again in the next…
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