An easy Italian bread recipe for focaccia you can make in a stand mixer. Perfect for bruschetta or dipping in olive oil. I am not very keen on kneading dough by hand so the less effort required the better. Although I have had success with my bread maker. I do grow tired of loaves always being the […]
40+ Tomato Week Recipes for Everyday Cooking
As well as Vegetarian Week 16-20 May 2016 also sees Tomato Week so here are 40+ tomato recipes from the Maison Cupcake archives and other British food blogging friends. There’s a bit of overlap between this list and the one I just compiled with 40+ vegetarian recipes but many extra pescatarian and carnivore tomato recipes […]
40+ Vegetarian Week Recipes for Everyday Cooking
May 16-20 2016 heralds National Vegetarian Week so I have scoured my archives and those of my food blogging friends to pull out over 50 (yes it’s more than the image says, I got carried away) – mostly savoury – vegetarian recipes. 50+ Vegetarian Week Recipes to Cook Everyday Of course the majority of sweet […]
Iced Raspberry Green Tea
Quench your thirst this summer with this refreshing cocktail mocktail idea: iced raspberry green tea. It’s a quick and easy summer fruit cup drink including lime and basil. By the jugful, it’s perfect for parties and barbecues. Post commissioned by PG tips. Well it’s a civilised way to start the week isn’t it. A pleasant […]
White Bean Hummus with Homemade Pesto
This easy white bean hummus recipe can be made with either butterbeans or cannellini beans and you can used canned beans or dried pulses. For ultimate speed you could used canned beans and jarred pesto but lately I’ve taken to batch cooking half kilo bags of beans and eating them over the course of a […]
Crunchie Rocky Road Bars
These easy no bake recipe chocolate rocky road bars include chopped up Crunchie bars to add a shimmery golden topping of broken up honeycomb pieces. This recipe was commissioned by Oxo to demonstrate their new squeeze and pour jugs. I won’t pretend this recipe is nutritionally advantageous to anyone but if you’d be eating a […]
Easy Apple Cake Recipe
Today I am sharing an easy apple cake recipe that’s so easy you can make it at home or away. Post updated 2026: This recipe was originally a collaboration with a holiday brand who are no longer around. I’ve removed references to them but this remains a favourite recipe you can make with minimal equipment. […]
Banana Waffles with Biscoff and Chocolate Sauce
Make these Belgian banana waffles with crushed speculoos (Biscoff) biscuits and chocolate for a fun weekend breakfast or dessert. Ready in under ten minutes, the waffles can be made with gluten free flour. I found a supply of Dove’s Flour gluten free self raising flour in my baking drawer recently. I won’t embarrass myself admitting […]
New Cookbooks – May 2016
Here’s a preview of new cookbooks due out in May 2016 – naturally with the emphasis on baking – and there are a few stragglers from April worth mentioning too. We have a big variety this month from flouncy fun stuff to vegan ice cream, from TV favourite tie ins to new rising stars. […]
Slow Cooker Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips (Gluten Free)
Slow Cooker banana bread with chocolate chips – really easy and gluten free too. 3 hours and you get this lovely moist banana bread you can finish off with lots of drizzled chocolate! We had a bunch of very strange bananas recently. They ripened in the blink of an eye and when you peeled them half […]
Spelt Pizza Dough with Three Pizza Toppings
Today’s guest recipe comes from Spelt by Roger Saul*. If you’ve not heard the name Roger Saul then you’ve very possibly heard of his company Sharpham Park which produces a range of spelt flours. They were first people to do so commercially in the UK bringing the benefits of spelt within easy reach of consumers […]
Bramley Apple and Sage Popovers
This apple and sage popovers recipe with roast chicken and pancetta is the latest in a series of posts for Bramley Apples. Oh how I miss the days when my grandma used to cook me a roast dinner every Sunday. Her kitchen was about 6 foot square, she didn’t have a fridge never mind a freezer […]
