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My vintage kitchen: French meringues
I love cooking. Especially on a Sunday when there’s no rushing around to do and the family sits around relaxing and enjoying the smell of a Sunday roast cooking in the oven. The part I really love...
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Something even better than strawberries & cream in Wimbledon week
What’s better than eating sweet English strawberries whilst watching Wimbledon? Eating chocolate-dipped English strawberries, that’s what! With the addition of some Choco-Leibnitz biscuits if you’re...
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The Macaroon: cute flowergirl or lumpy teen bridesmaid?
If meringues are the showstopping bride of the dessert trolly, then macaroons are her cute pastel coloured flowergirls. Or at least they’re supposed to be. Instead of being cute 6-year olds in pastel...
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Would you rather drink Mae West or Marilyn? The Hollywood cocktails of the...
Discovering that the big Hollywood stars of the 30s and 40s all had cocktails named after them has opened up a wealth of possibilities for summer drinks in the sunshine. How exciting! (apologies if I...
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Vintage baking: a 1950s stained glass cake
I’ve fancied making a retro stained glass cake for a while now, ever since stumbling across different photos of it online. Apparently it was a recipe which was printed on the back of jello packets in...
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Vintage baking: WW1 Anzac biscuits
When you say that biscuits are from World War 1 they just don’t sound very appealing do they? These Anzac biscuits however are surprisingly delicious. My 7 year old wolfed them down. He didn’t...
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Vintage teatime: Oeufs En Cocotte
There’s something very comforting about eating eggs for supper. Perhaps it’s just me, but it reminds me of weekends in my childhood when we’d had our main meal at lunchtime and we had something little...
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Vintage Baking: Brooklyn Blackout Cake
I love baking, it’s such a satisfying thing to do (and it gives you a great reason to eat and share cake – bliss!). For my husband’s birthday a few days ago I made a Brooklyn Blackout Cake: a dark,...
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Vintage Baking: A Delicate & Delicious Coconut Cake
Am I making you feel hungry? I’m making it my mission this afternoon to try to photograph this cake in a way that shows just how delicious it is – how does it look? It’s not an overtly coconutty cake,...
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Saturday Morning Baking: No-No Banana Cake (No Fat, No Sugar)
This should actually be called Yes-Yes Banana Cake as you can eat as much of it as you like totally guilt free! I’ll be honest, the idea of a fat-free sugar-free banana cake sounded a bit grim before...
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My Minecraft Cake Debacle
I should have learned by now NOT to ask my son what kind of cake he wants for his birthday. When he announced he wanted a Minecraft cake this year I was pretty chuffed. After all, Minecraft is known...
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Saturday Morning Baking: Fat-Free Banana Muffins
I’ve spent the last week tidying-up Theo’s enormous birthday cake (somebody had to eat all that cake), and my arteries are groaning from all that buttercream so I’m baking healthy again today. Instead...
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Sunday Baking: Deluxe (and Easy) Carrot Cake Traybake
Fancy something delicious for the weekend? How about this? It’s moist, tasty and fabulous, and there’s nothing like the combination of carrot cake with buttercream and a splodge of whipped cream too....
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Saturday Baking: Nigel Slater’s Thyme & Lemon Cake
Bear with me, I know the idea of thyme in a lemon cake might seem strange but it adds something truly special to it. I took this recipe from Nigel Slater’s The Kitchen Diaries II, which I can’t...
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Saturday Baking: My Crush on Nigel Slater Continues…
As you might have noticed from last week’s delicious lemon and thyme cake, I’ve currently got a massive chef-crush on Nigel Slater*. This week I was looking to use up brown bananas *again*. I don’t...
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Saturday Baking: Hummingbird Cake
This is another way of using up those pesky overripe bananas, but with a luxurious (and slightly tropical) result. The finished cake is reminiscent of deluxe carrot cake, especially with the cinnamon...
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Boobie Cakes
People the world over have found breast cakes entertaining (not to mention titillating) for a long time. I seem to remember that there’s a story of Marie Antoinette outraging her tea party guests with...
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Saturday Baking: Cinnamon Swirl Loaf Cake
I loved the look of this recipe. It sounded like all my favourite ingredients from a Danish Pastry made into a loaf cake. The only thing missing would be some white icing drizzled along the top which...
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Old Fashioned Cherry Cake
I’ve been eating cherries like they’re going out of style this week, so what could be more appropriate than baking an old-fashioned English cherry cake for the weekend? I’m not sure that glacé...
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Unbeatably Good Brownies
I went for some total baking decadence today. All things considered you really can’t beat a great home-baked chocolate brownie. Not the bland stodgy ones you buy in shops, they’re a completely...
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