Now is probably not the time for complicated recipes - or maybe it is: the ingredients probably haven't been stockpiled by others and are therefore probably still in the shops - but if you want to make lots of something, you need a straight-forward sort of a recipe. Something you don't have to think too… Continue reading Recipe: Chocolate and Berry Flapjack
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Recipe: Sugar-free Banana Muffins
The problem I have with sugar-free recipes, of the sort you find in recipe books extolling the virtues of giving up sugar, is that they quite often simply replace the caster sugar with some variety of syrup, or fill it full of dates. I believe the reasoning goes something along the lines of “If it… Continue reading Recipe: Sugar-free Banana Muffins
Recipe: Simple Vegan Lemon Fairy Cakes
Tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday [aka Pancake Day or Mardi Gras], the day on which, traditionally, all the eggs and butter are used up before the Lenten fast begins. For those of you observing it properly, I salute you, and offer this simple vegan recipe for fairy cakes to help see you through. Unless you feel… Continue reading Recipe: Simple Vegan Lemon Fairy Cakes
Recipe: Chocolate Coconut Fairy Cakes
Back in January, I took up running. Sort of. I started the NHS Couch to 5K programme. Mostly I'm doing this because over the last few years I've felt myself getting lazier and lazier, even though I walk everywhere I can. Nowadays, that isn't as often as it used to be, when I worked within… Continue reading Recipe: Chocolate Coconut Fairy Cakes
Recipe: (Almost) According to Sainsbury’s: Bread and Ham Pudding
As with odd lengths of threads left over from cross-stitch kits, it's impressive how collections of recipes and recipe books gather. And then usually gather dust. It must be admitted that most of my collection has something to do with chocolate, but I have also managed to collect a large number of those give-away recipes… Continue reading Recipe: (Almost) According to Sainsbury’s: Bread and Ham Pudding
Recipe: (Almost) According to Hummingbird: Muesli Bar
I was looking for something vaguely virtuous, something I could, perhaps, easily take to work to nibble at lunch-time. Something which wasn't a sandwich, and which wasn't full of sugar, and wasn't really flapjack. What I found was this recipe for a Muesli bar in one of my Hummingbird Bakery recipe books. It involved oats… Continue reading Recipe: (Almost) According to Hummingbird: Muesli Bar
Recipe: (Almost) According to Delia: Spiced Cranberry Cakes
The first time I made Delia's spiced cranberry cakes I substituted with lingonberry jam, because I had a jar in my cupboard and, looking at my notes, I must have been on some random substitution experiment, because it wasn't the only deviation. As far as I can recall, they tasted sufficiently cake-like - there are… Continue reading Recipe: (Almost) According to Delia: Spiced Cranberry Cakes
Recipe: Chocolate Truffles
Do you have a signature recipe? A treat, perhaps, which others come to you for? Mine is a simple, easily adapted recipe for chocolate truffles. I found this recipe in a Christmas recipe book. I'd decided that I'd spread Christmas cheer that year by making goodies for people. I reasoned it'd be cheaper and easier,… Continue reading Recipe: Chocolate Truffles
Recipe: Gingerbread with Lemon and Blueberries
What I like about this time of year is the cakes. This is the time for heavier cakes, for gingerbreads and fruit cakes, for spices and treacle. For all the things that taste of Christmas. (I know, a bit early for that, but now's the time to be baking for Christmas, to give the cakes… Continue reading Recipe: Gingerbread with Lemon and Blueberries
Miss Hope’s Black Forest Fudge
This is a more traditional sort of fudge, made by carefully boiling the ingredients to a specific temperature. Usually this takes ages. Or it seems to anyway – watched pots and all that. Unfortunately, you can’t really go away and come back again, just in case it gets too hot. So, once the sugar-cream-butter mix… Continue reading Miss Hope’s Black Forest Fudge
