Grand announcement to my family the other week: it’s my birthday and I want a Princess cake! I didn’t have to stamp my feet or throw a tantrum because I was of course making my own cake. My family were peturbed, imagining a pink multi-layered […]
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Crazy cocoa and raspberry rainbow cake recipe! Gluten free! :)
A colourful, magical rainbow in a cake. Who could resist? Okay, maybe people like my brother who have strong feelings about E numbers in food. I did try using natural food colouring, I really did. But that plan failed and I’ll explain why later. Wait, […]
Sant Jordi festival cake and photos – a recipe with marzipan roses, a dragon and a book!
Who’s Sant Jordi? He’s Saint George and the patron saint of Catalonia following a visit where he slayed the dragon and rescued a damsel in distress. He was a busy knight, completing the same heroic deed in Britain and various other countries. But did you […]
Traditional Monas de Pascua – Spanish Easter egg bread recipe!
I’ve always been fascinated by Easter breads with a colourful whole egg in the middle. They just really appeal to me! And they’re ubiquitous in certain regions of Spain this time of the year. Easter, known here as Setmana Santa (Holy Week), is about to […]
Ispahan lychee, raspberry and rose meringue nests recipe for Chinese New Year!
Don’t panic! It’s all under control! Yes, it’s ‘run-like-a-headless-chicken’ time for food bloggers as we attempt to cope with Valentine’s Day, Pancake (Shrove) Tuesday and Chinese New Year all within the same week! Globalisation has led us into an almost constant state of celebration. Hurray! […]
Healthy citrus curd mille-crêpes cake recipe!
Hello sweet reader, want to go slightly overboard this year and create a mille (thousand) crêpes cake with me? Well maybe not today, unless you’d love a bout of last-minute panic shopping and cooking, but any day of the year can be Pancake Day! Despite […]
Spelt crêpes recipe and some pancake humour!
Pre-Pancake Day greetings to you, sweet or savoury eater! Would you like to practise crêpe-flipping for Shrove or Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras)? To help you out the Sesame Street Swedish chef will be giving a video demonstration later! 🙂 But seriously, these spelt crêpes are […]
Thoughts on a Chocolate pear log (bûche) and a recipe for Chocolate cider cake
We grew up with a yule log cake (bûche) for Christmas, a French tradition, and my mother told me that in the olden days neighbours visiting during the festivities used to bring a log to add to the fire before sitting down – a wooden […]
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