Sticky, gooey and gorgeous for breakfast! This simple cake is packed with both fresh and dried apples for flavour and texture, just enoug...
A big, boozy, butterscotchy sauce to dribble generously over Sticky Spiked Double-Apple Cake or ice cream, or gingerbread, or spice cake,...
One of the many triumphs of the French pastry kitchen, brioche is a beautifully sweet and buttery yeast bread. It is the perfect foundati...
These rustic yet elegant mouthfuls are a dessert version of a popular hors d’oeuvre. A sugared crisp polenta base supports a dollop of ma...
Huge, heavy and heavenly, this cake is almost jet black, with a wicked chocolate flavour. It hardly needs it, but the glaze is great. The...
The year I made these as Christmas gifts, fights literally broke out among my normally well-adjusted friends and family. Even my father c...
Churros are traditional Mexican fritters, much like baking-powder doughnuts, usually subtly flavoured with lemon or orange zest. Like man...
This is one of my favourite desserts, and it’s deceptively simple—not the kind you get wildly excited fantasizing about, but the kind tha...
The most divine rice pudding you have ever dreamed of. This very simple variation is made without eggs, using instead the natural creamin...
Lightly toasted hazelnuts, crushed to a fine paste, are added to a classic crème brûlée custard, creating a gorgeous, voluptuously flavou...
Intensely toffee-flavoured cookies with a lovely, crisp-chewy texture and a good oatmeal taste are sandwiched with a gorgeously rich cinn...
Decadently rich and smooth, with the warm and unapologetic taste of cinnamon. Roasting the ground spice releases some of the natural oils...
Very dense, very rich, very moist, very chocolatey, these brownies ore not for the faint of heart. After tasting them at our house, frien...
These divine chocolates are really like the soft, melting insides of other truffles. They have an elusive mellow flavour, due to the addi...
Easy, fresh, light, very country, but also very elegant, clafouti is a traditional rustic Provencal dessert somewhere between a baked cus...
Still-warm muffins spread with sweet butter are one of the very favourite breakfasts in our house. These addictive muffins have a moist, ...
Some things are pretty much perfect just the way they are, and as far as I am concerned, strawberry shortcakes are one of those things. I...
These are an old-fashioned, crispy, rich-textured, incredibly satisfying pastry, simply flavoured with buttermilk and freshly grated nutm...
This homemade confection is absolutely incomparable to the awful stuff available around Christmastime in supermarkets. Those brightly col...
