Featured Recipes

Two English Tea Cakes on a plate
Sweet Bread, Breads

English Tea Cakes

English Tea Cakes are another tea rooms staple – my customers love my homemade ones. My recipe is based on several different traditional recipes including Yorkshire Tea Cakes and classic English Tea Cakes and contains no spice. I used to buy my tea cakes from my catering supplier but after […]

Coffee and Walnut cake on a cake stand with a slice of Coffee and Walnut Cake, cup of coffe, Camp Coffee bottle and a small plate of walnuts.
Cakes, Desserts

Coffee and Walnut Cake

This Coffee and Walnut Cake is soft and moist with delightful coffee and walnut flavours and a creamy coffee buttercream icing. It is quite an easy cake to make and is very popular in the tea rooms, along with some of my other cake recipes – Classic Carrot Cake, Chocolate […]

Slice of Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache on a plate with broken pieces of milk and dark chocolate in the background.
Cakes, Desserts

Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache

This week I am sharing my recipe for Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Ganache which is the recipe I use for the chocolate cake we serve in the tea rooms. It is based on Robyn Stone’s recipe for ‘The Best Chocolate Cake Recipe (Ever)‘ at ‘Add a Pinch‘. The main change […]

Slice of Classic Carrot Cake on a plate surrounded by carrots with green leaves
Cakes, Desserts

Classic Carrot Cake Recipe

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 […]

Patriotic Pavlova with strawberries and blueberries shaped to form the Union Jack flag
Desserts, Coronation

Patriotic Pavlova

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 […]