I do love coconut and have made quite a few recipes that include it, but today’s recipe makes coconut the star. These individual coconut tarts are made in small, fluted, moulds. But they could equally well be made in a bun tin. In that case the pastry would have a wider base, but be shallower […]
I love shortcrust pastry, especially when it’s crisp, buttery and flaky. So when I saw a recipe on Food Wishes for what Chef John called Buttercrust pastry I thought I would like to try it, instead of my usual shortcrust, for some apple turnovers. I have made apple turnovers before, but that was using puff pastry. […]
Today I decided to make some savoury pasties. I have a new tool that I thought would work very well for shaping the pasties. I chose cheese and onion, with potato, as the filling. So what I needed was a nice shortcrust pastry, though puff pastry would have been fine too. It is just that […]
Eccles Cakes are named after a town in Lancashire, England. They are made with a flaky pastry, though some people use puff pastry, and have a spicy currant and chopped peel filling. I really like Eccles Cakes, and especially the lovely flaky pastry. I make mine with all butter, using a recipe from BBC Good […]
Perfect for Christmas, sausage rolls are so easy to make. They can be frozen to be reheated when needed. These will be come a firm favourite