Month: April 2022

Butterscotch Blondies

Violet Bakery Butterscotch Blondie Bars

Blondies are more fun in these Violet Bakery Butterscotch Blondie Bars with Caramel highlights. This blondie is crackly on top with Caramel shards, gooey in the middle, loaded with white chocolate & cashews and extremely addictive! Even better is that, it is so easy to make with ingredients probably in […]

Avocado Ice Cream

Avocado Ice Cream

Avocado Ice Cream? Yes, there’s more to the humble avocado than being smashed in toast; here it comes on it’s own as an ice cream. It is extra creamy, extremely delicious and the pastel green shade is just so perfectly pretty. This is reminiscent of the avocado milk shake that […]

Hot Cross Bun Loaf

A richly spiced bread for Easter and an exotic take on the traditional Hot Cross Buns. Last year my Hot Cross Buns were a fail and I was hoping to redeem myself with this Hot Cross Bun Loaf What happened was I left the dough to prove outside under the […]

GhaymeH

Split Yellow Peas and Lime Stew (Khoresh Ghaymeh)

The humble split pea is the star in this Persian Split Yellow Peas and Lime Stew (Khoresh Ghaymeh). It is cooked with beef simmered in rich tomato sauce, dried black limes and turmeric then served with rice and fried potatoes.Although Ghaymeh is traditionallly made with meat; it can also be […]

Lime and Poppyseed

Swiss Roll Allsorts

I’ve never meet a cake that I didn’t want to Swiss Roll! Why? Let me count the ways? The base cake itself is quick to make, all of eight minutes and because it’s just a sponge cake, you can go to town with the flavours. Like chocolate? Then make it […]