Easy Recipes for Home Cooks
A tea cake, doesn’t necessarily have to contain tea – they can be any small cake, cookies or sweets served with tea. However, this Earl Grey Tea Cake certainly does! It is moist from yoghurt and full of zesty citrus flavours from the Bergamot in the tea leaves and the […]
This is one of my favourite tea loaf, naturally sweetened with dates and studded with crunchy walnuts. It is dense and wonderfully moist, perfect with a cuppa. Like most old fashioned cake, it is the kind of treat you make for yourself because of it’s simplicity and takes no time […]
If you love coffee, like I do, then this is the loaf cake for you. Delightfully moist tender crumb, with chopped nuts and hints of fragrant spices- cinnamon and cardamom. Coffee flavour in the cake and more in the Coffee Glaze. I’m one of those who doesn’t wake up properly […]
This is my version of the spiced Dutch Almond Fingers called Gevulde Speculaas . ”Gevulde” is Dutch for stuffed and these finger shortcrust cookies certainly are – with Marzipan. When baked , the Marzipan melts into the cookie imparting more almond flavour and more moistness. By no means is this […]
These are classic French Salted Butter Cookies – crumbly and melt in your mouth full of buttery flavour. Originating from Brittany in the northeast of France (famous for their salted butter), these Breton Cookies(Sablé Breton) have a sandy texture and are traditionally round with fluted edges. Unbelievably delicious with just […]
There’s a story going around, and this came up again because of the new Top Gun movie starring the everlasting Tom Cruise, that if you are in Tommy’s Nice List , you get gifted this White Chocolate and Coconut Bundt Cake come Christmas time or any other special occasion. I […]