Courgette, Lemon and Lime Birthday Cake

It was my friend Becky’s birthday the other day and when I was going through my receipe collection to look for a birthday cake I could make for her, I came accross this little beauty here, which is the courgette cake from Nigella’s Domestic Goddess book. Courgette cakes are always a favourite of mine as […]

Strawberry Courgette Cupcakes

  June is a strawberry month in England. You get tasty strawberries in all the shops but sometimes I drive out to a farm to pick them myself. Strawberry picking always reminds me of the summer holidays when my cousin, sisters and I used to do this with our grandmother. The farm I go to here […]

Chocolate Beetroot Cake

I’m back! Having spend most of the last three months in NY (with a visit to Botswana in between), I am now back in my own kitchen, here in London. I have to admit, that I did become one of those New Yorkers who doesn’t bother cooking or baking. But why would you when the […]

Lemon Courgette Cake

After volunteering in Botswana earlier this year I am going back in October to see some of the kids in the school I worked at again and to help setting up some more orphan projects with a group of volunteers and therefore I have started ‘baking for charity’ again. I am getting involved hands on, […]