I’m more a Nigel or Hugh FW man than a Nigella lover; but there she was in a seemingly endless run of her programs one afternoon.Read More

Today just happens to be my birthday. Luckily I forget the exact age. I’m assuming few, apart from my mother, remembered. She sent me a cardRead More

The Blackcurrant and Almond Cake recipe is from the little free paper that Waitrose pushes out each week (wish they would bring back the full TVRead More

An updated post from 2005 – now with a slightly better photo and full recipe instructions. This is Chocolate Cloud Cake!

It doesn’t look pretty. The butter cream I must have got wrong – it slid, like a cooling lava flow, imperceptibly from the sponge to theRead More

Eventually I abandoned all attempts to whisk the eggs and sugar into a mixture “thick and moussey” so that the “mixture should leave a trail overRead More

Less a dessert, more a cake for a civilised spot of afternoon tea – but welcome to a simple mango cake a soft, delicate sponge spiked withRead More

Always a simmering of excitement when the latest issue of Delicious drops through the letterbox – makes a change from final demands at least! This isRead More

I’m sure everyone and their mother can make muffins and has a ‘tried and tested’ recipe to boot. I’ve included this recipe for completeness but itRead More