Ethereal Meringue Nests are four ingredients and a slow oven — room-temperature egg whites, cream of tartar, sea salt, and 100g (3.5 oz) of caster sugar whipped into a glossy cloud, then dried into crisp shells with marshmallow hearts. Fill them with anything cold and...
Mini Cherry & Almond Tarts Recipe
Mini Cherry Almond Tarts are little individual Bakewells — cherry jam under an oil-based almond sponge studded with ripe quartered cherries, topped with flaked almonds and a snow of icing sugar. Six tarts and a pot of tea. There's something so charming about...
Rich & Tangy Date Treacle Tart Recipe
Date and Treacle Tart with Lemon Curd is the classic English treacle tart with a sharper edge — dates softened with bicarbonate of soda, baked with breadcrumbs in black treacle and golden syrup, with lemon curd to cut through the sweetness. Rest it, then serve warm...
Lemon, Lime & Coconut Meringue Crowns
Lemon and Lime Meringue with Coconut Crumble rebuilds the classic pie as a plated dessert — crisp-baked meringue crowns over sharp lemon and lime curd, sitting on a coconutty short crumble. Sweet, sharp, and crackly in all the right places. Looking for a dessert that...
Decadent Chocolate Raspberry Lava Cakes with Rose Cream
Outrageously Rich Molten Chocolate Raspberry Cakes with Rose Cream are ten individual 70%-chocolate puddings with raspberries folded in, baked just long enough to set the edges and leave the middles molten. The rose-scented cream alongside keeps the richness honest....
Decadent Chocolate Orange Muesli Dessert
Chocolate Ganache with Orange Muesli Crumble & Walnut Praline Cream is breakfast reimagined as dessert — a set milk chocolate ganache loosened with walnut oil, an oaty orange crumble studded with candied peel, and cream to soften it all. Layered in glasses, it...
Sticky Prune & Brandy Loaf Cake
Sticky Prune & Brandy Loaf is a grown-up fruit cake — prunes steeped in 50ml (1.7 fl oz) of brandy until plump and boozy, then folded into a honey and muscovado sponge with orange zest and walnuts. The long soak is the recipe; everything else is quick. Looking for...
Decadent No-Bake Peanut Butter Cheesecake
No-Bake Peanut Butter Cheesecake with Salted Toffee Sauce is a fridge-set wonder — 300g (10.6 oz) of crunchy peanut butter whipped with cream cheese and cream, on a digestive biscuit and cocoa nib crust, with warm salted butterscotch poured over. No oven involved at...
Roasted White Chocolate & Caramelized Pineapple Dessert
Roasted Pineapple with Caramelized White Chocolate & Crispy Rice is restaurant plating for home cooks — pineapple roasted with demerara sugar, white chocolate roasted until it turns toffee-ish, and a crackly caramelized rice crunch. An hour, and most of it is the...
Whey-Poached Purple Sprouting Broccoli Recipe
Whey Poached Purple Sprouting Broccoli with Sesame is a ten-minute side born of good thrift — tender broccoli poached in leftover whey from cheese-making, finished with toasted sesame seeds and a little butter or olive oil. Nothing wasted, everything gained. Ready to...
Roasted Turnips with Apple & Cider Glaze
Roasted Turnips and Caramelized Apples with Cider Glaze is autumn on one tray — golden turnip wedges roasted alongside Granny Smith apples caramelized with sugar, all glossed in a cider and vinegar glaze. Sweet, sharp, and far better than turnips' reputation....
Zingy Pickled Rhubarb & Raspberry Salad
Pickled Rhubarb and Raspberry Salad is sharp, rosy, and unexpectedly lovely — thin rhubarb batons quick-pickled in a ginger-spiked vinegar syrup, then tossed with fresh raspberries, pink peppercorns, and a slick of olive oil. Fifty minutes, most of it the rhubarb...












