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Dessert

Creamy Panna Cotta with Cherry Compote

This creamy panna cotta is made entirely of full fat cream, so it’s a pretty decadent but you know it tastes delicious. The accompanying cherry compote is rich, fruity and it has a flavour of Christmas for me (perhaps it’s the brandy in it!). I made the panna cotta’s quite small as they are devishly rich. However it …

Treats

Chocolate Macarons

Have you noticed how macarons have suddenly become über cool and fancy? You can now buy them in exotic flavours such as white truffle with hazelnut and Lilly of the Valley! They are packaged up like expensive perfumes in pretty boxes with silky ribbons and tissue paper in soft pastel hues. Move over Belgian chocolates, …

Appetizer

Cheesy Courgette Fritters

Unlike me, my other half doesn’t love courgettes. He claims they squeak – like green beans and aubergines – they’re on his “I’ll only eat those if there’s another famine’” list. So I spend a lot of time trying to create recipes which make these vegetables more appetising and less….squeaky. These fritters have been the greatest …

Cake

Cherry and Almond Muffins

I can’t get enough of fresh cherries this summer. And ever since I got my new cherry pitter, there really is no stopping me. This cherry and almond muffin recipe is so simple to make. In fact they were ready to come out of the oven by the time I had washed up all the …

Cake

Rubik’s Battenberg

Update: On July 14th, two days after posting I received an email from Ernő Rubik himself saying that he liked my cake. I guess the world is really a very small place. ‘ Thanks for the nice birthday surprise which sweetens the bitterness of passing time.’ Hungarian Ernő Rubik invented the Rubik’s cube in 1974.  He was …