Recipes

This is a must. A super-fast meringue, some shop-bought lemon curd with a little double cream and orange juice. That’s all you need to make a fast, gluten-free and delicious dessert.

This easy, humble tart should be ample justification to look out the rolling pin.

These cookies are some of the most delicious things you can bake in a hurry – from start to finish, you’re talking half an hour, if you need.

I baked this is a dish about two years ago on the Great British Bake-Off and it’s awesome – the lavender works really well.

This is the perfect afternoon tea accompaniment. Not a savoury, but definitely not overly sweet. And a bit intellectual too, what with the savvy juxtaposition of conflicting flavours combined with the near ubiquitous combination of “lemon and poppy seed”.

Not only is this recipe really very painless and risk-free, but it’s a demonstration of my one, ever-repeating concept in bread making: the wetter, the better. And this dough’s nice & clammy.

Blueberries just work in pancakes – they’re tradition in America, but haven’t ever had much of a reputation for greatness in the Scottish (and obviously superior) version of the flat, griddled cake.

The contrast between the rich puff and the sharp tang of the apples is one that is quite unique to the turnover.

Bring this recipe to a different level and test your cake-making skills. We use juicy fresh pineapple, posh Morello cherries and make a proper sponge mix from scratch using posh butter (James recommends Graham’s butter!).

Exactly what it says in the title: hopefully this little recipe will be your simple guide on how to make epic meringues forever more. The strawberries and cream, though optional, really set it off well – especially if it’s Graham’s double cream!

This recipe takes all the best bits of baguettes and compresses them into an easy-to-make bread, lacking in hard work and complex time restrictions.

Fruit cakes don’t have to be super dense and dry and heavy and boozy and filled with that oh-so-satanic invention; the glacé cherry. They can be as light as any cake, with a huge variation in style from one wee simple recipe.