Pear and Chocolate Cake

A couple of weeks ago on Supplemental, Ed Smith mentioned a pear and ginger cake by Nadiya Hussain and I started researching loads of recipes. It took me a while to cop on to myself and realise that I’m not a fan of ginger cake so why would I think pears would change that?!

Simple Strawberry Slice

Simple Strawberry Slice – nothing like a bit of alliteration to excite the nerd in me. I thought it was time for another sweet recipe and with strawberries really at their peak right now, a simple recipe is the best way to show them off.

Cherry Clafoutis

Cherry Clafoutis is a dish I’ve been meaning to blog with some time. However, as was said to me on Instagram last night, it’s hard to resist eating the fresh cherries before they get added to the batter!

Chocolate Trifle with Baileys

Yes I am aware that this dessert does not contain either fruit or jelly but I am still calling it a trifle! It’s got layers of cake, booze, custard and cream. So in my book, it’s a trifle.

Malteser Cheesecake

  As it’s nearly the weekend I thought it would be nice to post an indulgent dessert recipe. My go-to cheesecake is usually this Bailey’s Cheesecake.  This Malteser Cheesecake isn’t a million miles away, recipe wise.

Waffles

I love waffles! Whenever I go somewhere that there’s a food fair, I check to see if there is a waffle stand. I always liked them quite plain just with a dusting of sugar. Then we went on holidays to the Las Vegas and every morning I had breakfast of waffles with whipped cream and […]

Chocolate Mousse

I have decided that I need to do more chocolate recipes – any excuse! So my new aim is to do one chocolate recipe every month. This is my most recent fix for my chocolate habit. I was hoping to do Tom Kerridge’s mousse from his Proper Pub Food but it required the use of […]

Cheats Chocolate Ganache Tarts

Sometimes life is just too short to make pastry. There are times when you have a crowd for a meal, you want to have a choice of desserts but just don’t have the time to make everything from scratch. This is when these tarts come into their own – easy, inexpensive and still very impressive.