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Snow covered chocolate brownies

December 13, 2013 by date with a plate.

First of all, when I say snow I really mean icing sugar. Secondly, when I cook brownies, I cook with butter. Let’s be honest, butter is amazing. I’m all for healthy eating and a good salad but when I cook cakes or brownies or any sort of dessert – its never “low fat”, never with margarine and never without guilt. But that’s ok every now and again, its Christmas and people like an excuse to indulge. These brownies are awesome, […]

Categories: Afternoon tea, Cake, Chocolate • Tags: baking, brownie, chocolate, dessert, Nigella Lawson

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Pumpkin Scones

August 7, 2013 by date with a plate.

Don’t be fooled into thinking a good old-fashioned scone is just for your Grandma’s enjoyment, these are an all day every day filler in my opinion and I encourage you to give these forgotten relics a second chance. At school we used to race to the front of the canteen line in the hope of scoring a Pumpkin Scone (liberally covered in butter of course) for morning tea – should we have been lucky enough to get spending money from […]

Categories: Afternoon tea, Snack • Tags: baking, butter, easy, kid friendly, Nigella Lawson, Parmesan cheese, pumpkin, scones

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Nigella’s Lemon Polenta Cake

May 26, 2013 by date with a plate.

A combination of two things led me to this recipe; an overly abundant lemon tree at my Mum’s house and a desire to use polenta in baking. It would appear (to me at least) a match made in baking heaven. My Mum’s lemon tree is consistently plentiful with deliciously sweet lemons, not the normal hard skinned lumpy variety, but instead a perfectly oval shaped, thin skinned and sweet flavoured variety which I have come to love over the years. It is […]

Categories: Afternoon tea, Cake, Dessert • Tags: baking, cake, dessert, flavour, ground almonds, lemon, Nigella Lawson, polenta, sweet

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