Homemade puff pastry, filled with sweet apples makes for a lovely snacking treat. Having made a nice big block of puff pastry I decided to use some of it for making apple turnovers. These are very easy to make, once you have the puff pastry. Of course you don’t have to make your own puff […]
Soft and fluffy potato burger buns, so much better than those store bought ones. My sister Margaret suggested that I might like to make some burger buns, using mashed potato in the dough. It seems, from her information that such buns, and dinner rolls are becoming increasingly popular. The texture of the resultant buns are, […]
Light and crisp and oh so cheesy. These are the best. Cheese Straws are so very tasty as a snack, or maybe crumbled onto a bowl of soup, or eaten with dinner. They can be made very simply indeed by using shop bought puff pastry. I would always recommend buying ‘all butter’ puff pastry. That […]
No pastry makes this Pear & Almond Tart so simple to make. It tastes great too, of course. This recipe, for a Pear and Almond Tart, is so easy to make. It doesn’t have any pastry so it just an easy almond batter topped with pears. Although I made mine using a pastry ring it […]
A lovely crunchy biscuit alternative to Hot Cross Buns. Spiced and fruited like those buns, full of flavour and great with tea. As Easter approaches I was thinking about Hot Cross Buns. I love them and have recipes and videos online for making the traditional ones. Of course these days, in the supermarkets, you can […]
Orange cake perfection in the form of a small bundt tin. Soft and flavoursome this makes a great loaf cake too. I saw a recipe recently on Giallozafferano for a yoghurt cake. This was made in a large 10 or 12 cup bundt tin. I don’t have one of those but I was really interested in […]
A great alternative, at Easter these Hot Cross Scones have that tradional Easter flavour but with the wonderful scone texture, associated with so many afternoon teas. Having made the traditional Hot Cross Buns for both my blog and my Youtube channel in previous years I decided to try something a little different for this year. […]
Perfect with coffee or tea. These are a great biscuit to start the day, or as a mid-morning snack. For a very quick sweet treat these Easy Orange Biscuits are just perfect. They are thick and have a similar texture to an English scone, only firmer. So they are ideal for eating with a cup […]
This tasty variation on Bakewell Tart deserves all the plaudits it received. Such a great dessert, served with cream or ice-cream. I decided to make an apple tart, but I wanted something a little different. So I decided to do one with a frangipane filling. Frangipane is a batter made with ground almonds and has […]
Soft bun, fresh cream with strawberry jam and topped with icing. What could be better for afternoon tea? One of the first things I baked when I started my blog in 2014 was Iced Buns. I decided to make them again, this time with a video. I hadn’t intended to make them today, but after […]