You know what, sometimes I don’t want to make a treat out of coconut, quinoa and flaxseeds. Sometimes I want an actual treat, a real treat, a good old-fashioned treat. Enter lime syrup cupcakes. I’ve got an oversupply of limes on my hands right now. I honestly don’t know how it happens. I’m usually a hoarder…
Bella blueberry yoghurt cake
Way at the beginning of the year Stacey at Veggie Mama blogged a Blueberry yoghurt cake and I just went OMG WOW. Because Stacey is awesome and because yoghurt and cake just sound so good together don’t they? And we know I’m a sucker for anything with a blueberry in it. I was so sure I…
Chocolate pannetone pudding
Have I told you that my very good husband likes baking? Don’t get me wrong, he’s not in the kitchen every Sunday whipping up baked goods for the week or anything (just putting that out there for when he reads this), but he likes to turn out a bread, cake or pudding on special occasions….
Lovely old-fashioned pound cake
When we think of ‘cake’, this is the cake that we’re thinking of. That yellow slab of rich, buttery goodness that is the old-fashioned ‘pound’ cake. The pound cake was named after the classic 1:1:1:1 pound of flour, butter, sugar and eggs, but the recipe has been refined over time and the doorstop slabs of…
Pandoro with mascarpone cream and raspberries
Pandoro with vanilla mascarpone cream and fresh raspberries 1 x store bought Pandoro* 1 x serve vanilla mascarpone cream (recipe below) 2 x punnet fresh raspberries Icing sugar to dust Cut the Pandoro horizontally into five even sections. Starting at the bottom (!) spread a thick layer of mascarpone cream along bread, layer raspberries all…
Lovely apple teacake
LOML is the ultimate present giver. Christmas, Birthdays, Anniversaries, Justbecauses, you name it and I’m being indulged in loveliness. I madly drop hints all year, of course, but there is always a little surprise or two that just make me go ‘wow’. Little gifts so perfectly me that it brings a tear to my eye. I’ve also…