Dates are a delicious fruit which is often eaten at Christmas time in the UK. So I decided that I would take that humble date and make a very special treat, by stuffing and coating in chocolate. Of course there are a whole host of different things that could be used to stuff the dates, […]
I was looking around for an alternative to mince pies for Christmas. I love mince pies but I know that not everybody enjoys them. In my searches I came across a recipe on Better Homes and Gardens for what they call Italian Fig Bundles. They looked wonderful in the photograph and the recipe read quite well. […]
I do like biscotti and am always up for trying something new, in terms of flavour combinations. So hazelnut and date seemed like it was worth trying. I saw it on Paul Hollywood’s site. Biscotti are quite easy to make and don’t take long. But they are very rewarding, since they not only taste great […]
Having much enjoyed making Sticky Toffee Pudding, known in some places as Sticky Date Pudding I thought I would try to make some muffins of a similar nature. So today I present my Sticky Toffee Muffins. I did make a slight change, from the pudding, using light muscovado sugar rather than dark, as I wanted […]
Having some dates waiting to be used, as I bought too many when making sticky toffee pudding I decided to use them up by making some Date Bars. I wanted a nice crumbly bar with a layer of soft and sticky dates in the middle. So to accomplish this I decided to use some […]
Sticky Toffee Pudding is a firm favourite of most people I think. Certainly I love it and I had a, sort of, request to make it, in advance of my trip to Canada to visit family. So I checked a good few recipes online to see the variations that people use, to try to find […]