Remember those after dinner mint slices that would come out at the end of a dinner party and were the height of sophistication in the eighties? At least I thought they were pretty classy with their dark chocolate and individual little sleeves. Well, they’re back! I’m declaring them totally cool again and on trend. My…
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Salted Caramel and Hazelnut Slice
Over the last few weeks my recipes have taken a slight healthy bent – refined sugar free lemon curd, refined sugar free raspberry and lemon cake, raw chocolate bliss balls and healthy quick tortilla soup. But today I will not apologise because this is unashamably sweet tooth heaven. Gooey salted caramel. Rich dark chocolate. Crunchy…
Basic Bliss Balls
I’m not sure I should start off a food blog post with this story, but I’m going to. The other week the whole family went to Henry’s little friend Bella’s first birthday. It was such a lovely birthday but the aftermath was not cool, seriously not cool. Two nights later my husband and I woke…
Raspberry and Lemon Cake
What do you do with all that Homemade Ugly Lemon Curd you made yesterday? Make a Raspberry and Lemon Cake of course. Layers of moist lemon, raspberry and almond cake studded with tangy raspberries, topped with creamy mascarpone, cream cheese and vanilla frosting and drizzled with your lemon curd. Enough said. You need to make this….
Homemade Lemon Curd
Normally I wouldn’t touch lemon curd, not because I don’t like lemons or because I am super health conscience (look around my blog, you’ll see) but because I have always found it far too sickly almost cloyingly sweet. Often I would look at it and think how delicious it would look but after a few mouthfuls…
Banana Cake
I bet without a doubt you have your favourite banana cake recipe. Your go-to cake to use up all those over ripe bananas that we all have lingering in the fruit bowl far too often. Am I right? This is mine. Let’s be specific it’s my banana cake filled with mascarpone, topped with cream cheese,…
Chocolate and Beetroot Cake
If Red Velvet Cake had a healthy cousin, this would be her. She’s red, she’s sweet, she’s chocolatey just like her cousin but instead of being super sweet and full of food colouring she’s earthy, delicately sweet and full of dark, good for you, chocolate. Don’t get me wrong, Red Velvet Cake has a space…
Lavender and Honey Madeleines
Lavender? In a cake? I know what you’re thinking…“Are you serious Kate?” “You’re just trying to get too clever…and failed.” “Do you not understand that flowers go in a vase not in baking, Kate.” “Oh yuck, that sounds disgusting.” – yes that last one’s a direct quote from my darling, and clearly supportive, mother while…
Healthy Chocolate Banana Granola
Who doesn’t want to eat chocolate anytime of the day? I would, my husband would, pretty much all of my friends would and my toddler certainly would without a doubt (I know this because he suggests this to me multiple times a day, everyday). Well, guess what? You can. Huh? Yes, you can. You can…
Torta Caprese
This cake is the bomb! There is just no other way to put it. It ticks all the boxes, super easy to make (i.e. does not involve my pet hate of creaming butter), icky sticky gooey fudgy chocolatey centre, crisp crunchy crust, gluten free and looks great. Yup, this Torta Caprese is the bomb. I…
Almond and Boiled Orange Cake with Bittersweet Dark Chocolate Ganache
Oh how it has been a while! Hello again to all my friends, I’m sorry it’s been so long. It seems like I underestimated how chaotic my life was going to be with two (gorgeous and cute) little boys on my hands and despite attempting to get back into blogging after having baby boy number…
Naked Berry Cake with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting
You are very very lucky my friends. Very very lucky to be reading this post. Since the moment I decided to put my Naked Lemon and Berry Cake with Vanilla Cream Cheese Frosting up on My Little Larder the Cake Gods have been against me! I’m not sure what I ever did to anger them….