Maple Pecan Oat Muffins. Incredibly tender, large crumbed muffins, perfect for any time you want an excuse to eat a pancake-flavoured cake for breakfast. Instagram! I love it. It’s definitely my favourite of all the social platforms. Maybe…
This is a new series about the food and cookery books that have strongly influenced my life both in and out of the kitchen. I absolutely love talking about cookbooks, so I thought you might be interested in the…
These are the double chocolate cookies of your dreamz. I know that because they’re the double chocolate cookies of my dreamz. And I assume we have the same cookie-filled dreams, yes? These are the unbelievable double chocolate cookies we’ve…
Long before I even knew what a babka was, I saw that fateful Seinfeld episode. I don’t want to go on about it, because even I get bored of the way people talk about food sometimes. Making madeleines? You…
Let me answer the question which is probably on the tip of your tongue. What is Tang Zhong? Tang zhong, my friends, is a cooked mixture of water and flour, which is added to bread dough, resulting in an…
Ricotta cheese has been hogging the breakfast pancake spotlight for too long. It’s time to let another mass of curds have a chance. Enter, Quark. It’s the Ricotta of the German speaking countries. A beautiful, soft, mild cheese, most…
Remember when cupcakes were nothing? Before they became first a food fetish, and then a craft project, and then a totally played out fad? Remember when muffins were the thing that was everywhere? It was a long time ago,…
Churros. They’re fried. They’re crunchy. They’re tossed in sugar. What’s not to love? I don’t get sick of making them (they’re probably the easiest donuts to put together, other than baked, and that’s a cake people. It’s a cake.)….
Make this for your Valentine, even if your valentine is you. If we’re talking about serious expressions of love, then I can’t think of anything more appropriate than a Fried Chicken Pretzel Biscuit. Super crisp, lightly spiced, completely addictive…
It’s trite, it’s schmalzy, it’s a bore, it’s Valentine’s Day. There is no day of the year that inspires more vitriol, nor more sweaty exchanging of stuffed toys between adults, than Valentine’s Day. If you’re not having to lean…