Honey, orange and hazelnut biscuits 🐝

Iced honey, orange and hazelnut biscuit recipe 🐝 – plus how to make a hexagon stencil with just simple geometry and a compass

Pane di Pasqua – Easter bread

Beautiful Italian Easter sweetened bread wreath with hand coloured eggs: bake your own Pane di Pasqua

Twisted olive oil biscuits with orange juice – biscotti torcetti con arancia e olio d’oliva

These lovely biscuits have a crunchy exterior and a soft middle. They are softly flavoured throughout with orange, including the drizzled icing. The fine quality of the Tipo 00 flour gives the crust extra bite. I am delighted that Filippo Berio has seen fit to include my recipe on their website. Notes Makes 10 large

Orange olive oil cake with Limoncello icing and marmalade glaze

Heavenly orange and olive oil cake with marmalade glaze and Limoncello icing

Cranberry, pineapple, cherry and nut mincemeat

A rich, citrus mincemeat with pineapple, cranberries, cherry juice and nuts – a world of difference from shop bought mincemeat

Candied citrus zest

How to make your own candied citrus peel

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

Orange curd

An easy, reliable old-fashioned recipe for delicious orange curd.

Orange and chocolate friands

These are based on the Orange-chocolate cake recipe in the ‘La Mere De La Famille’ recipe book by Julien Merceron. The original recipe is for two large-ish loaf tin cakes. I have tweaked the recipe a little so that it can be baked perfectly as smaller individual cakes. There are two absolutely essential changes: the