Credit: Jesse Szewczyk Credit: Jesse SzewczykReal talk: Ive baked over 100 batches of cookies in my life. Probably more. There was a point in my life when I would bake multiple batches of cookies each week just so I could practice my technique. (To say that I take cookies seriously is an understatement.) Along the way Ive discovered a handful of recipes that stood above the rest ones that have earned a permanent spot in my rotation. At the top of that list lives my favorite chocolate chip…

I think it is fair to say that most people know the connection between Marcel Proust and the humble madeleine, a cake the author described as “short, plump little cakes…which look as though they had been been moulded in the fluted scallop of a pilgrims shell”. It was a cake that, for him, immediatel

Chocolate chip cookies made using sourdough discard

The ultimate chocolate chip cookies made with brown butter, chunks of caramel, salted peanuts and lots of chocolate

I am back from my US book tour and am in that place where I am very happy to be home, exhausted from all the travel, but also kind of wishing I was still on the road. Firstly, I cannot tell you how amazing it was to spend the last three weeks flying around the states and doing a whole bunch of event

How could I do a series on chocolate chip cookies in 2018 and not include what has to be the most popular baking recipe of the past year! Yes today we are talking Alison Roman’s Salted Butter Chocolate Chunk Shortbread. Now, it may be a little unfair including this recipe as it doesn’t really fall i

I have something shameful to admit. I abandoned my sourdough starter in the back of the fridge for months, forgotten and neglected. After languishing in the fridge for so long I wondered if it could have possibly survived or if could be revived. I am a firm believer that once your starter is properl

a classic chocolate slice and bake cookie made with plenty of caramelised white chocolate, black cocoa and rye flour (optional)

This post is sponsored by Ozone Coffee UK It’s time for Brunch. I’m not talking eggs Benedict, or avocado on toast, but coffee absolutely does make an appearance. This weeks recipe is a fabulous layering of flavours and textures and a coffee lovers dream. It starts with a classic brioche, whic

It's jam time again, and this week I have two recipes for you! Firstly, the simplest, easiest jam recipe going and secondly a fabulous brunch bake to use that in When I was little the one jam we had in the house at all times was raspberry jam, mainly because my family absolutely love a classic sher