These are absolutely delicious and super easy. If you’ve bought or made brioche that’s a little heavy or has gone dry then ‘bostock’ it and fall in love with it all over again. The recipe calls for day-old brioche and is traditionally popular with French […]
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Healthier spiced anise and almond fougasse monégasque cookies recipe! Sourdough or not…
This fougasse is from the little principality of Monaco in the South of France. It’s an amazing discovery with the loveliest riot of mouthwatering flavours and textures. The dough is flavoured with anise seeds, anise liqueur, orange blossom water, rum, ground star anise and toasted […]

Plaited brioche recipe! With optional rum and orange blossom water plus spelt, plain or lower-gluten flours…
Bake this brioche and it could become a weekly event! It’s delicious, light and versatile. Adapted from top pâtissier Yann Couvreur’s recipe, all the prototypes have been delightful made with various flours and quantities of milk or cream. Choose from white spelt flour, plain cake […]

French flourless lemon almond cake recipe – moist, delicious and so easy!
If you want an impressively simple and scrumptious cake to make over the holidays and even take travelling, this is for you! We made it the first day of our Cordon Bleu course and though it was the fastest it was one of the best […]

Drawings of a multilayered blood orange tart recipe
Just as the cake-loving woman thought she could relax and contemplate the sky, she suddenly remembered she had a Fiesta Friday party to attend in those clouds up there. ‘Brilliant, a party!’ Oops… she’d promised to bring a pretty cake! ‘Noooo, not more writing out […]

Healthy lime, orange blossom and pistachio cake recipe
Christmas and the new year are coming and you’d like a guilt-free healthy cake. Or you have recently discovered your cholesterol level has shot through the roof like me, and you URGENTLY need such a cake! Don’t panic, you can have your spelt flour, sugar-free […]