Vanilla and Chocolate Easter Egg Cake

This is quite a silly post about a very silly recipe. This cake is not big and it is not clever. So much so that  I very nearly did not write this post. But it turned out to be really quite joyful, and a perfect… Read More

Bite Sighs: Flopsy, Mopsy, Coconut Tail and Peter

Is it possible for silly little bunny-shaped biscuits with fluffy tails to be elegant? Probably not. But I’m confident that this is the closest we’ll ever get.

Mornay Thursday: On Fridays We Eat Fish

My mother never taught me how to make a white sauce. I recognise that in the grand scheme of grief and mourning and the death of a parent, this does not at first sight appear to be a problem worth griping about, but bear with… Read More

Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Hot Cross Bun Loaf

Reader, I will be frank with you: in many ways, this bread is the antithesis of the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books that littered libraries when I was a child. But please don’t let that stop you.

Something to Prove (Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bun)

A confession, to begin with – appropriate, given the season. This is not a story of how I stopped worrying. It wouldn’t take a psychiatrist to determine that, in the last two years, I have used baking as a crutch, or a crude therapy. I have… Read More