Baked Chocolate and Raspberry Cheesecake

Baked cheesecake was one of the challenges recently on the Great British Bake Off. I usually stick with easier no-bake cheesecakes but decided to up my game and try one.

Cherry Crumble Bars

For some reason I thought I hated cherries. I’ve no idea what I tasted as a child that put me off them so much. Possibly those horrible glace cherries from the Christmas cake mix.

Chocolate Biscuit Cake

There’s nothing too original about a biscuit cake but sometimes there’s nothing better. I have made a few different recipes for biscuit cake over the years but this one got the best reception.

Poires Belle Helene – Poached Pears in Chocolate Sauce

Purists look away now, I had run out of vanilla ice cream so I used cookie dough ice cream! It works 🙂 I nearly forgot to post a chocolate recipe for April! So this one is getting in by the skin of it’s teeth.

‘Instant’ Buttermilk Pancakes with Berry Compote

There’s a big day coming up – Pancake Tuesday!! One of my favourite days of the year.

Chocolate Brownies

 

Chocolate Loaf

  Well, did everyone watch the Great British Bake Off final? I won’t give away any spoilers here but I loved this series and was delighted for the winner. I had a day off on Wednesday so I decided I had to make a cake to have while watching the final. I wanted something simple […]

Apple and Blackberry Crumble

A friend recently gave me a lovely gift of her homemade blackberry jam. I have to confess some evenings I have been just having bread with this jam as my dinner! We were chatting about picking blackberries and I said I got a notion to make a blackberry crumble. She gave me a tip to […]