Vanilla Fudge
For some reason this is known in the Antipodes (and I got this recipe from a Kiwi) as Russian Fudge and, although I like this name better, I feel that it perhaps leads the rest of us to expect somethi…
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What could be more special than a homemade edible gift? Delight your loved ones this Valentine's Day with a tasty treat, handmade with love in your kitchen.
Bacon Brownies
I don’t deny bacon in brownies sounds weird, but it does really work in a quite straightforward way. Even people who shrink from the very idea find the actual outcome all-too-compelling. I like to use…
View recipeCinder Toffee
This is just a more poetic and old-fashioned name for honeycomb – ‘cinder’ presumably referring to the splintered texture made by the whoosh of air introduced by the bicarb.
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Passionfruit Curd
As wonderful as this is to eat piled on top of fresh white bread, it is exceptional sandwiching a Victoria sponge, dolloped over muffins and pancakes, or poured into a cooked and cooled pastry case.
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Vanilla Shortbread
Even if you have never baked anything in your life, you will be able to make these with untroubled ease. And I hate to say this — as someone with a once-serious Bahlsen habit — but they are so much be…
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Chocolate Pistachio Fudge
I am willing to believe that a confectioner wouldn't call this proper fudge, but it tastes divine, and you won't need a sugar thermometer or have to test for frightening soft or hard ball stages. I li…
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Butter Cut-Out Cookies
It’s not hard to make biscuits that hold their shape well while cooking; it’s not hard to make biscuits that taste good and have a melting, buttery texture: what’s hard is to find a biscuit that does…
View recipeWhat a find. Taste on a par with the enjoyment the children get from making them. A keeper. Thank you!
Chocolate Chip Cookies
It seems strange that I’ve managed to write seven books without one plain chocolate chip cookie (by which I mean a plain cookie with chocolate chips in it). It’s true that the Totally Chocolate Chocol…
View recipeJust came out of the oven and these cookies are heaven..... Yum yum
Totally Chocolate Chocolate Chip Cookies
Along with chocolate, there is much comfort to be gleaned from reading cookbooks. This recipe combines two loves by being chocolatey to the point of madness and having revealed itself to me after a co…
View recipeThese are the best cookies I've ever eaten. It's impossible to only cook half the batch. In fact they're so good I just double up all the ingredients and freeze 12 and cook 12!
Hokey Pokey
Hokey pokey is a Cornish term for honeycomb. It is wonderful eaten in golden shards or crumbled into the best vanilla ice cream. It is also the perfect present to take to a dinner party. Better than f…
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Rosewater Hearts
These delicate, scented cookies have fragrant flavour enough to be eaten alone, but are more than able to take a little light icing/frosting, too. Indeed, they would be pretty fabulous sandwiched, in…
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