Maple Roasted Apricot and Almond Streusel Cake
Moist and loaded with almonds and roasted apricots, this incredibly flavourful cake has a wonderful balance of flavours and contrasting textures. Roasting the apricots not only intensifies their flavour, it reduces the liquid content in the fruit…
Sour Cream Cake – Core Recipe
A fluffy, buttery, classic sponge cake which lends itself to a range of different recipes. All mixed in one bowl in less than a minute, this recipe can be used for loaf cakes, slices, sandwich cakes and…
Blueberry Streusel Cake
Blueberry buckles, or streusel cakes, are a delightful treat that perfectly combines the sweetness of blueberries with a buttery, vanilla sponge and a crispy streusel topping. The name 'buckle' comes from the way the cake's surface appears…
Chocolate Chunk Peanut Butter Blondies with Salted Peanuts
Soft, melt in the mouth, gooey vanilla blondies, studded with chopped chocolate, topped with puddles of sweetened peanut butter, salted peanuts and an extra sprinkling of sea salt. These blondies make a fabulous treat served simply with…
Pink Grapefruit Drizzle Cake
Light, fluffy, moist and buttery sponge loaf bursting with pink grapefruit flavour, drizzled with a sweet and tangy pink grapefruit syrup and topped with a crispy, zesty pink grapefruit icing. Fresh and delicious, it is no surprise…
Buckingham Palace Chocolate Cupcakes
When I was looking for delicious treats to celebrate King Charles’ coronation, I found this wonderful recipe for chocolate cupcakes with chocolate buttercream, shared by the pastry chefs from Buckingham Palace. Soft, moist and fluffy chocolate sponge,…
Buckingham Palace Tea Bread
If you are planning to do some baking for King Charles' coronation this weekend, I guarantee that you cannot go wrong with this Tea Bread. I found the recipe on the Royal Collection Trust website. Made with…
Double Chocolate Chip Muffins with Chocolate Streusel and Chocolate Mini Eggs
Soft, moist, fluffy chocolate muffins studded with dark and milk chocolate, topped with a crunchy streusel and finished with chocolate mini eggs. What an outstanding start to Easter morning! Surprisingly, these delectable muffins are not over-sweet. The…
Cinnamon Swirl Vanilla Slice
Delicious, moist, light as a feather, squares of vanilla sponge cake infused with a generous amount of a sweetened cinnamon and cardamom salted butter and drizzled with a buttery, vanilla icing.
Barmbrack – Báirín Breac
Báirín Breac, also known as Barmbrack, is literally translated as Speckled Loaf. It is a moist Irish fruit loaf cooked with delicious spices and loaded with dried vine fruits. More of a cake than bread these days,…