Duffins

  What is a Duffin, I hear you ask? The answer is: a donut-like muffin! I hadn’t heard of them either until the other week when I was reviewing a café near Holborn , who had a tray of freshly baked ‘Duffins’ on their counter. I was instantly intrigued by the sweet smelling muffins rolled […]

Baked Cheesecake with Passion Fruit

For the last two weeks I have had the pleasure of having a houseguest: the lovely Annelise came over – all the way from New Zealand! We’ve known each other for over 10 years, when we met as she and her husband lived in the Big Smoke at the time. A lot has changed since […]

Blueberry Scones

At the moment – rather depressingly – we seem to be having a lot of cold and grey around us in London as it’s been raining for days now. Luckily, I made some blueberry scones on that one sunny weekend we had a little while ago, which allowed me to take the photos on my […]

Rhubarb Meringue Pie

I have to quickly upload this post before May is over! When I started this blog, the idea was to blog four times a month and ever since I’ve started my new busy job this has become somewhat difficult. But I would like to at least keep posting three times a month – and this […]

Rhubarb Marzipan Muffins

Have you noticed that it’s rhubarb time? My sister did and requested that I upload a receipe featuring the tangy vegetable that gets used rather like a fruit in most dishes (think crumble, compote, pie…). The obvious choice for me would have been to use rhubarb in a cake with a meringue pie topping, which […]