Baked Beetroot with Homemade Curds and Toasted Sunflower Seeds is beginner cheese-making and Sunday-lunch cooking in one recipe — sweet roasted beets, warm milky curds set with vegetarian rennet, and a scattering of toasted seeds. Two hours, end to end. A Nostalgic...
Glazed Beetroot & Apple with Celeriac Mash
Baked Beetroot and Apple with Celeriac Mash and Toasted Hazelnut Oil is a plate of winter color — golfball beets roasted with Braeburn apples, creamy potato and celeriac mash, and a nutty oil you toast yourself. Ninety minutes, and most of it is the oven's...
Easy White Chocolate & Apricot Scones Recipe
White Chocolate and Apricot Scones are sweet, rich scones studded with chopped dried apricots, white chocolate, and desiccated coconut. They lean American — sugar-forward, tender with sunflower oil and a little cold butter — and they bake in 15 minutes. There's...
Fluffy Sally Lunn Buns: A Taste of Bath
Legendary Sally Lunn Buns are feathery-rich yeast buns made with single cream, eggs, and lemon zest — the famous Bath teatime treat, fresh from your own oven in under an hour. Eat them warm, dusted with icing sugar. Step back in time to 17th-century Bath and discover...
Pineapple Spelt Cake with Brown Butter Rum Glaze
Pineapple and Rum Upside-Down Cake with Brown Butter Filling is the retro dessert done properly — canned pineapple rings and glacé cherries over caramelizing muscovado sugar, a half-spelt sponge beneath, and a rum glaze soaked in at the end. The flip is the drama....
Gluten-Free Pear & Buckwheat Cupcakes
Gluten-Free Pear and Buckwheat Cupcakes are nutty and tender, not worthy — one grated ripe pear keeps the crumb moist, buckwheat flour gives a toasty depth, and white chocolate icing finishes them off. Sixteen little cakes, no gluten in sight. Looking for a...
Parsnip & Horlicks Cake with Toasted Hazelnuts
Parsnip Cake with Horlicks Icing and Toasted Hazelnuts is carrot cake's sweeter cousin — 150g (5.3 oz) of finely grated parsnip, warm ginger, and ground almonds in the sponge, malted Horlicks icing, and a scatter of toasted nuts on top. Even the skeptics come...
Rich Mocha & Cocoa Nib Cake Recipe
Ultimate Mocha Cake with Cocoa Nib Icing is the coffee-and-chocolate birthday cake — a muscovado sponge loaded with 25g (0.88 oz) of instant coffee, soaked with a coffee glaze while still warm, and finished with bittersweet cocoa nib icing. The sea salt rounds off the...
Blackberry and Almond Crumble Cake Recipe
The Ultimate Blackberry & Almond Crumble Cake folds 350g (12.3 oz) of fresh blackberries and a quick blackberry purée into a moist almond sponge. It's a long bake — 100 minutes — and every minute is what lets the deep center set while the edges turn faintly...
Moist Carrot Cake with Blood Orange Frosting
Wonderfully Moist and Fluffy Carrot Cake with Blood Orange Icing is an oil-and-egg sponge packed with raisins, candied peel, and walnuts, under a citrus-sharp blood orange icing. The dark muscovado sugar is what keeps it moist for days. Ready to bake the most...
Easy Microwave Tomato Jam Recipe
Sweet and Savory Microwave Tomato Jam simmers 750g (26.5 oz) of ripe tomatoes with caster sugar, white wine vinegar, and a spoonful of tomato purée into a glossy, scoopable condiment in under an hour. The microwave does the reducing while you stir occasionally and...
Dreamy Toasted Marzipan Custard Recipe
Toasted Marzipan Custard is cold-weather comfort in a baking tray — marzipan browned and melted through whole milk, cream, and egg yolks until the whole thing tastes of toasted almonds. Budget 100 minutes total: most of it is unhurried baking and chilling. If you've...












