Easter Carrot Cupcakes. Lately I’ve been appearing on a regular slot on local BBC radio broadcast in Jersey and Guernsey. You can listen to me chatting each weekend with the lovely Jim Delbridge about seasonal and local food and recipes. Recently researching some ideas for an Easter baking edition I discovered an interesting fact. The…
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British Pie Week – Cheese, Bacon and Potato Pie
British Pie Week – Cheese, Bacon and Potato Pie. Today is the last day of British Pie Week 2025. I don’t know about you, but I am very partial to pastry. It can be elegant like cream filled choux pastry buns or satisfying like a traditional Cornish Pasty. However, my favourite use of pastry is…
Reindeer Gingerbread Biscuits
Gingerbread can either be a spiced biscuit cut into shapes such as a heart or human figure or a sticky cake made with molasses or honey. Decorated gingerbread biscuits are one of the festive seasons most popular bakes. From elaborately decorated gingerbread houses used as table centre pieces to Christmas gingerbread men made to hang on your tree.
My Six favourite Sweet Seasonal Treats
Do you have festive recipe that you make every year? Christmas baking starts early in our household when we make the Christmas cakes before the end of summer. We always follow this by making mincemeat for my serious mince pie addiction. But with Christmas just around the corner here are my personal favourite festive bakes and my recipe for a Baileys hot chocolate that might just get you on Santa’s naughty list.