Cheat’s Cinnamon Buns

      I am back in NY for a few weeks (yay!) and this means that I am living in a short let apartment that is not quite set up for baking adventures. There’s no scales, no whisks, no baking tins and none of all the other small and large utensils needed. So I had to come […]

Breakfast Scones

I have just come back from a place where dates grow – no, not the Middle East but the Californian dessert. Dates are a big deal over there and you get them at all the markets and they feature in some dishes – and even milkshakes! I had the tastiest date milkshake at the Hadley Fruit […]

Swedish Chocolate Cake ‘Kladkakka’

As I’m off on holiday tomorrow, I should probably be packing right now rather than blogging but I got a new receipe yesterday that I wanted to try out straight away.  I have been after for a while as it’s one of my favourite treats at a Swedish Café that I go to a lot […]

Cheese Blintzes

Next week is pancake day in England! This reminded me that it’s about time I put up another pancake receipe and here you are. As I was looking through my fridge to see what kind of pancakes I could make, I found some ricotta and decided I would use it to make some cheese blintzes […]

Snow Day Cookies

Ok, I admit it. Spending the winter in London means that I don’t actually have Snow Days (let alone snow, it seems). But seeing so many of my friend’s Facebook updates and Instagram photos about them recently made we wish I did and I wondered what I would do if I would have a snowed […]