Recipes

From this recipe, you can extrapolate every other variation. Want fruit scones? Leave the spice. Want plain? Leave the fruit as well.

This may well be my new favourite recipe. So, so easy and very quick.

Muffins, of the American sort, are exquisitely suitable to adaptation. This recipe is one of the very best and the simplest.

Use shop-bought mincemeat with a finely chopped apple added through – makes it go further, dampens the sweetness and improves the flavour.

This Christmas cake will be just as good as any Christmas cake that’s been maturing for months & months.

A simple, stress-free recipe for delicious turnovers – suitable even for beginners.

My version of a gluten free bread recipe that doesn’t taste like cardboard.

If you are in need of any comfort during the cold winter nights, these viscous eruptions of flowing chocolate will provide it.

This is a technically exquisite cake – it’s moist, it’s light, it’s not too rich despite the heavy chocolate use. And it makes an extravagant, if rustic, centrepiece.

Whether or not you are partial to a quiche, I demand you make this recipe. The critical cream:egg ratio makes all the difference.

Banana and toffee is one of those classic combinations that works well in pretty much any expression. And muffins are no exception.

The flavour of the gin works so well, cutting straight through the richness of the sponge.