Desserts

Cakes, Desserts

Classic Carrot Cake Recipe

11 May 2023

My Classic Carrot Cake Recipe is a soft, moist, spicy cake filled and covered with a luscious vanilla flavoured cream cheese icing. It is the recipe I use for the tearooms! There are many different variations of carrot cake, including those that include ingredients such as nuts, raisins, or even […]

Desserts, Coronation

Patriotic Pavlova

5 May 2023

Patriotic Pavlova is the third of my coronation bakes following my King Charles’ Scones and Queen Elizabeth’s Chocolate Biscuit Cake. Patriotic Pavlova is simply a red, white and blue flag shaped pavlova with a Union Jack made up of strawberries, blueberries and whipped cream! Coronation Bakes I do hope you […]

Christmas, Desserts

Christmas Pudding

16 November 2022

This Sunday November 20th, the last Sunday before advent, is ‘Stir Up Sunday’ – the traditional day for making your Christmas Pudding. The Collect for this Sunday starts: ‘Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people…’, and is an apt reminder that it is time […]

Desserts

Halloween Pudding

25 October 2022

My favourite Halloween recipe is Halloween Pudding. Each year I like to search for Halloween recipe ideas as it often satisfies my fascination with traditional recipes. Last year I discovered this Halloween Pudding recipe after searching for old Irish recipes. I focused on Ireland instead of England in this instance […]

Cakes, Desserts, Pies, Scones, Shortcrust Pastry

Four Tasty Apple Recipes

14 October 2022

Apples this season are likely to be smaller than usual here in the UK. It’s all due to the hot summer and lack of rain apparently, but the good news is that this will make them even tastier! Another upside of apples being smaller means that greengrocers, markets and supermarkets […]