Baking and Desserts
A collection of delicious tried-and-tested recipes for sweet baked goods and desserts. Cakes, scones, cookies, pies, tarts and so much more!
Delicious seasonal gingerbread cookies are iced to resemble coins. Let Gingerbread Chanukah gelt be your new festive tradition! If you celebrate Chanukah, chances are you’ve eaten Chanukah gelt. And chances are it was made of chocolate. Foil-wrapped chocolate coins have become a pretty ubiquitous part of our festive celebrations at…
From raw ingredients to delicious fluffy loaves of vegan challah, in only an hour! Enjoy tasty home made Shabbat bread in double-quick time. There’s nothing quite like freshly home-baked challah. The smell of warm, crusty loaves that fills the kitchen, the feeling of accomplishment, and the knowledge that soon you can…
A moist, fruity, lightly-spiced vegan carrot cake recipe that’s easy to whip up in a food processor or by hand. A wonderful treat for tea-time or anytime! While it wouldn’t be Rosh Hashanah without it, we cannot live on honey cake alone, right?! Over the course of YomTov I like…
Devon apple cake is moist & fruity, packed with fresh apple pieces & flavoured with cider. Crunchy honey crumble makes it a great dessert or teatime treat. Plymouth is not usually celebrated as a tourist destination. Still, I was somewhat taken aback to learn that the city’s top rated visitor…
This delicious vegetable packed soda bread recipe comes from Get Your Kids To Eat Anything by Emily Leary – a fantastic book to banish picky eating and make family mealtimes interesting & fun! I am extremely blessed in that my daughter Kipper will eat just about anything. Not tomatoes –…
Squidgy coconut and date flapjacks are a delicious twist on a British tea-time treat, packed with oats and dried fruit, and flavoured with rich date syrup and a pinch of spice. Have you ever given much thought to flapjacks? These traditional British treats, made with oats and syrup, vary from…
With fresh lemon juice & zest for maximum zing, this coconut lemon cake uses olive oil and yogurt for a summery Mediterranean flavour & super moist texture. Do you sometimes have food flashbacks? I do. I’ll be going along, minding my own business, when out of the blue I’ll remember…
A tangy-sweet goats cheese strudel, with crisp layers of buttery filo pastry, a luscious creamy filling, and cinnamon, walnuts & pistachios for a hint of Eastern flair. The power of punctuation! When my daughter Kipper discovered that the @ sign is called ‘strudel‘ in Hebrew, she was completely tickled. And…
A delicious no-bake chocolate matza cake inspired by Duke of Cambridge cake – a British teatime classic that’s fit for a Prince! Quick & easy, this vegan slice is perfect for Pesach. This year, I’m planning a laid-back, low-stress, non-intensive Pesach. The idea is to eat simple, fresh, delicious food made…
A sweet, buttery, curranty filling encased in crisp, golden flaky pastry – classic British bake meets tasty Purim treat! It’s the Eccles cake hamantaschen! Purim inspiration? Every year as Spring rolls around my thoughts turn to hamantaschen – those delicious three-cornered pastries traditionally enjoyed on the Jewish festival of…
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