Festooned with glacé fruits and nuts, this exquisite honey-sweetened Italian Christmas cake is jam-packed with fragrant and exotic things. This recipe, a little altered, comes from cakeophile Alison Finch’s informative...
Foolproof. I love Victoria sponge! It always makes me think of Sunday afternoons at my granny’s house. She made her own and was horrified by shop-bought cake. Sadly, the baking...
It’s not for me, this one, to be honest. If I am that desperate for sugar, I’ll go chocolate every time, but the kids just love making these. So, in...
In Mysore there is a little shoebox of a restaurant called Mylari Dosa that serves just two things: dosa and chutney. It doesn’t sound like much, but this one is...
Baking a pie is like beating the whole video game. You didn’t think you could do it, and your hands hurt, but with enough hours of game time it was,...
Fruit crumbles are the epitome of fast and rustic baking. Literally, you can’t F them up! They’re delicious, pretty healthy, and easily customizable. Now, me being me, I kind of...