Orange and Pistachio Cupcakes

Orange and Pistachio Cupcakes! With a light satisfying texture and delicate orange, raspberry and pistachio flavour: these cupcakes have a distinctly exotic, North African flavour and are very easy to make. This recipe makes 6 buns. Ingredients Set oven to 170C 1 large or 2 small eggs 2 tbsp coconut oil or butter Zest and…

Pavlova with Berries, Kiwi and Cream

Friday night birthday loveliness with my daughter. Snuck out from work early to collect the ingredients and bake the meringue. It was the chewy, sticky slightly toffee type of meringue. Easy recipe and lovely fun to create this with Poppy who turned up just as I was pondering how to pull it altogether… Ingredients: Method:…

Weekend Matters: Grape Cheese Cake

Intro OK, you got me. More of a cake with cheese or possibly (says my husband) a cake of cheese than cheese cake per se, very very retro but kind of beautiful in a 1970s glamourous, Diana Dors way especially if you like cream cheese and apricot jam. Ingredients The recipe instructions are to be…

Weekend Matters: Carrot Cake

Some weekends call for cake. And this was beautiful – a sticky, moist, rich-textured cake, topped with thick, creamy American frosting – unbeatable. We ate large slices outdoors in a brief burst of brilliant hot yellow sunshine lost all too quickly between the heavy rain-clouds and high winds that blew in from the west. The…