Toffee butterscotch madeleines with physalis

Toffee butterscotch madeleines with cape gooseberries (physalis)

Gluten free Italian orange polenta cake with a citrus, honey and anise syrup

Gluten free Italian orange polenta cake with a citrus, honey and anise syrup

Berry and apple pie with orange shortbread pastry art

I’ve written up a recipe and a photo step by step guide to making one of my signature fruit pies. This one’s with berries, apple and an orange crust

Chilli jam – sweet and hot

This is easy-peasy and you don’t need a thermometer to measure temperatures. It’s just basically sugar, vinegar and chillies – a highly typical jam recipe. Although, obviously spicy, not sweet, and I added a few bell peppers to ensure the taste was more rounded.

Chocolate and nut tart

This tart uses a sweet shortcrust pastry shell and has a velvety, rich chocolate filling with toasted hazelnuts and pecans. It goes exceptionally well with ice cream and, for a really cheffy desert, I’d suggest serving it with an orange reduction sauce, a nut brittle and either homemade ice cream (something like clotted cream, orange

Pomegranate, plum and strawberry curd

I love fruit curds – very retro and very under appreciated. Not only are they great in sandwiches, on toast and for scones and pancakes and similar things, but I often use them as either cake or tart fillings. I sometimes mix them with a little whipped cream or will use them in place of

Bakewell tart with blackberries

I make Bakewell tart fairly often as it’s a bit of a family favourite. This weekend we drove through Bakewell en route to the spa town of Buxton. Bakewell is about a 40 min drive away even though we do live in the same county. All the towns in that area are just gorgeous; beautiful

Apricot, apple and almond Chelsea Buns

I was just thinking I hadn’t made an enriched dough recipe for a while… Background/history of the recipe Chelsea Buns are a specific version of a traditional, rolled enriched and sweetened bread. Unusually for a bread, their origins are actually known, as they were invented at the Chelsea Bun House in London, probably in the