Cookies & Cakes
One of my favourite cakes in my repetoire is a cinnamon teacake which takes a total of about 45 minutes from start to finish, and is the perfect accompaniment to a good cup of coffee or tea. The cake itself is very simply flavoured, but the cinnamon sugar on top provides crunch as well as [...]
This cake is delightful - light, airy, nutty and the cream is lovely and sweet without tasting too rich. It’s starts with a meringue mix, and needs a lot of care so it’s not a cake for a quick night fix but more for an afternoon tea or dinner party dessert.
The icing isn’t meant to [...]
One of my earliest and fondest memories of being in the kitchen is of when I was barely tall enough to reach the counter top in the kitchen, and I had to sit on the counter in order to help my mom. She used to bake these wonderful peanut butter cookies which were light and [...]
When I was a child, I always loved the little jam tarts that you could buy in the cookies section of the supermarket. Small, crumbly with very jammy jam, I could never manage more than 2 or 3 due to the intense sweetness, but I enjoyed every bite.I got this recipe from a book that [...]
So, let me declare that Nigella is my desserts goddess. She really, truly is. Every recipe that I’ve dared to create from her “How to be a domestic goddess” book has turned out simply and magnificently (can any other Nigella fans vouch for any of her other books? It’s been awhile since I’ve been on [...]
