Pavlova is also one of my favourite puddings. Unfortunately, I never feel sick from it so I can just eat and eat and eat! This is my fool proof recipe: Serves 12-14 (depending on how greedy you are!) TIP: Before you make this, please bear in mind it should ideally…
Banoffee Pie is my friend Denise’s favourite dessert and seeing as it was her birthday this weekend, I thought I’d make one and bring it into the office on Friday so we could start the celebrations early. This is a great dessert to make as it is so easy, and…
When I was trying to decide what dessert to make for my friends Louise and Tony last weekend, I couldn’t make up my mind between something rich and sweet or something clean and light. I started off my thinking I might do individual melting-middle chocolate fondants, then I thought I…
I recently bought The Skinny French Kitchen, a cookery book by Harry Eastwood. In it, she takes on the challenge of marrying her love of classic French cookery with a desire to maintain her waistline. Every recipe has been slimmed down to a fraction of its usual calorie count, without robbing…
Last week when I was watching the Fabulous Baker Brothers on Channel 4 (http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-fabulous-baker-brothers), one of the brothers made an apple pie. It looked so delicious that I couldn’t stop thinking about it. I used to make apple pies all the time when I was a student, but I haven’t…
When I have people over for dinner I tend to make a pavlova. It’s easy and everyone loves it. Even friends who profess not to like pavlova end up loving it. I recently had a dinner party and I made a chocolate cake and a pavlova for pudding. One of…
I had the best sticky toffee pudding I’ve ever tasted at Andrew Edmunds in Soho a while ago. I asked them how they made it and they said it was a very standard sticky toffee pudding recipe. I found that very hard to believe so I looked for some ‘standard’…
Not too long ago a friend of mine expressed mock disgust as he opened my kitchen cupboard and discovered two packets of Angel Delight – one butterscotch and one strawberry. Well, I think it was mock disgust anyway! He couldn’t believe that I could have such a synthetic dessert in…
When my good friend Paul mentioned to me that his favourite dessert is tarte tatin, I decided to make him one for his birthday. For something so simple to put together, this is one amazing dessert. Apples fried in butter and sugar until they caramelise, topped with puff pastry &…
