Fun fact, combining sausage rolls with cheeseburgers creates the most delicious snack! So we’re no stranger to a sausage roll variation, we’ve put a couple up on the blog before like the breakfast ones or these with smoky paprika and chorizo or even a vegetarian version filled with falafel mix! This time around we decided […]
If coffee and chocolate are your thing we may just have the perfect dessert for you right here. This is one of those tarts that’s so delicious that the people you serve it to will be delighted and shower you with compliments, completely unaware of the secret to it’s simplicity… Green’s tiramisu mix! You may […]
The ultimate Italian pastry, we chose to flavour ours with chocolate and pistachio. So this week was Italian week, and it was full of amazing treats, as much as we may love pizza, we couldn’t resist the call of the cannoli. We’ve been dying to make these for a while, although were very glad we […]
Pastry week’s technical challenge gave us the perfect excuse to have a go at making pastéis de nata! Pastry week is always one of our favourites and this year was no different and the cherry on top of the pie was that Liam got star baker! He’s definitely become one of our most loved contestants […]
We put chorizo inside of sausage rolls, obviously it’s going to be great! Sausage rolls are great – they’re easy to put together, can be prepared in advance and they’re a real crowd pleaser! There’s something great about having people round and pulling a tray of sizzling hot sausage rolls out of the oven for […]
You may have seen in our last post, these creme egg and passionfruit meringue nests, we were trying our hand at a recipe created by Rinkoff in collaboration with Cadbury, well today we’re bringing you another one with these creme egg eclairs. Choux pastry is something we both enjoy to make and in fact chocolate […]
A little late with our bake from the semi final of the bake off (seeing as the final has sadly been and gone already!) but these palmiers are worth the wait! We chose to fill ours with some parma ham, extra mature cheddar and wholegrain mustard! So even though the final has actually happened, we’d like […]
A delicious tart with gooey camembert and spicy chorizo, inspired by our love of baked camembert (and chorizo). This tart is essentially a quiche, which we feel is a typically summery dish, but we feel that the smoky flavours make it more appropriate for these autumnal months. We added hot smoked paprika and some thyme […]
This week was pastry week, one of our faves. We were torn between a filo creation and the bakewell tart. But really, making our own filo pastry seemed like a lot of hard work, with ideas in mind we will probably return to that in the future and stick to the bakewell for now. We […]
So it’s been a while… but today the sun was out (and the prosecco was in… the fridge) and we were dying to get back to baking so we whipped up this delicious and super easy tart. Perfect for eating outside in the late evening sunshine. This past month life took over for us, new […]
At a party, everyone loves a little something to nibble on. Being perfectly honest we like a lot of something to nibble on… So we decided to make some cheese straws. These were a really easy recipe to make, meaning they’re great when you’ve got a lot of baking to do! We made 2 different […]
So we needed to whip up a quick pud for our second Christmas with the girls. We went for a tart au citron (lemon tart) because we didn’t want anything too rich or stodgy. Plus this was super super quick for us to make during our busy day. Everyone loves a traditional tart, especially a […]
This was one of the later additions to our christmas party buffet. We’d planned on making our fig and ginger frangipane tarts from the beginning, but after making quince jelly last week we knew we needed to use it in a bake of ours. So the quince and pear frangipane was born. To begin with, […]
When we say homemade mince pies we mean we actually made the filling too! And it’s much easier than you’d think. Lots of fruit, sugar & a bit of brandy – we added orange, apple and dried cranberries to ours for an extra kick of flavour. Yes okay its super easy and super yummy to […]
So its been 2 weeks, we know, you’re all over the bake off finishing… but we aren’t okay?!? So we made mille feuille this week as an attempt at sweet, sweet nostalgia for our favourite program. Mille Feuille is french for ‘a thousand leaves’ or something like that, but all we really care about is that […]
So it was Victorian week on the bake off (otherwise known as gelatine week) and although we were very tempted by an attempt at a Charlotte Russe, we couldn’t resist making some little mini pies. This week Tamal, our baby boy, got star baker which we feel has been a long time coming but finally […]
Week six on the bake off was pastry week! It started off with the signature dish, a frangipane tart, packed with delicious flavour combinations and a few soggy bottoms… Followed by a cypriot ‘flaouna’ for the technical challenge, a cheese & raisin filled pastry covered in sesame seeds, interesting? The recipe calls for mahlepi and […]
This recipe is a vegetarian twist on a sausage roll. After our Breakfast Sausage Rolls were such a huge huge hit with our family & friends, for Naomi’s Tea Party we thought we would create a vegetarian version of a sausage roll to go along side the meat lover’s version. The falafel is a traditional […]
Yesterday was our friend Naomi’s birthday and as a little surprise for her we put on an afternoon tea party with a selection of baked goods. Although this may have caused our stress levels to rise somewhat, it was a success and we all had a delightful (and food filled) evening. We made a whole […]
So it’s week 2 of the bake off and we’re still getting over excited by all the baked goods and innuendos. This week for our bake off themed bake we decided to attempt the technical challenge, Arlettes. Arlettes are a type of french biscuit made from puff pastry, rolled up with sugar and cinnamon. Once […]
To start our blog off, we thought we would do a bite size twist on a french classic. Something with everyone’s current favourite, salted caramel. Crisp choux pastry mini eclairs filled with a salted caramel cream, drizzled with chocolate ganache & salted caramel and a sprinkle of sea salt. Choux Pastry 2015-04-19 10:27:17 Yields 20 Choux […]
