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Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Warning before you start making your roasted pumpkin seeds! Don’t over bake them – they are REALLY ‘bleugh’ if over cooked. They may look all golden, crunchy and delicious but beware, under that...
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Chocolate Cookie Dough Plait
Who knew that puff pastry, which I used for this chocolate cookie dough plait, had such a checkered past! Some people suggest that puff pastry originated from France in 1645 where an apprentice baker...
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Apple Charlotte
Apple Charlotte is a dessert made with sliced white bread and apples, a quintessentially British dessert, or so I thought until I started to research it! I was going to start this post talking about...
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Cinnamon Apple Bread
I adapted this recipe for Cinnamon Apple Bread from a recipe that I read last year for a pull apart apple pie bread. I made it a couple of times as a pull apart bread but I kind of like my bread in...
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Easy Millionaire’s Shortbread
I wonder if anybody reading this knows why this delicious shortbread biscuit, caramel and chocolate is called Millionaire’s shortbread? Searching the internet to find out I came away none the wiser....
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Frosted Cinnamon Rolls
Right, I am 21 days late posting the recipe for these frosted cinnamon rolls. October 4th was Kanelbullens Dag in Sweden – Cinnamon Roll Day to you and me. A whole day celebrating cinnamon buns –...
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Nutella Croissant Pudding
This Nutella Croissant pudding is a variation on a traditional British bread and butter pudding. It is rich, it is buttery, and it is chocolatey, so what’s not to like? It is also very simple to make –...
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Lemon Poppy Seed Cake
I have been baking this Lemon Poppy Seed cake for years. It is so simple to make and the addition of lemon curd in the recipe means that it never bakes dry, unlike a number of other pound cakes that I...
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Baklava
Without a doubt, Baklava, is one of my favorite desserts (if not my most favorite dessert) but it is something that I have only made once or twice in my life. I have always thought it to be too time...
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Pumpkin Pancakes
So the biggest ever recorded pumpkin was one that was grown in Switzerland and it weighed in at a massive 2323 pounds. According to my rough calculations this would have provided enough pumpkin puree...
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Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
Warning before you start making your roasted pumpkin seeds! Don’t over bake them – they are REALLY ‘bleugh’ if over cooked. They may look all golden, crunchy and delicious but beware, under that...
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Chocolate Cookie Dough Plait
Who knew that puff pastry, which I used for this chocolate cookie dough plait, had such a checkered past! Some people suggest that puff pastry originated from France in 1645 where an apprentice baker...
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Apple Charlotte
Apple Charlotte is a dessert made with sliced white bread and apples, a quintessentially British dessert, or so I thought until I started to research it! I was going to start this post talking about...
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Cinnamon Apple Bread
I adapted this recipe for Cinnamon Apple Bread from a recipe that I read last year for a pull apart apple pie bread. I made it a couple of times as a pull apart bread but I kind of like my bread in...
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Pear & Blackberry Crumble
Crumble, Crisp, or perhaps even Smulpaj? What do you call this old time dessert of stewed fruit covered with a crunchy, crumbly butter, flour and sugar topping? I’ve always known them as Crumbles so...
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Apple Cake
I have made this Apple Cake many, many times now and it is just getting better and better. Sometimes I peel the apples, sometimes I don’t. Sometimes I add sour cream, sometimes milk or yogurt....
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Victoria Sponge Cake
Did you know that the Victoria Sponge Cake is named after Queen Victoria? Supposedly, Victoria, who reigned as the Queen of Great Britain from 1837 to 1901, liked to have a slice of this cake with her...
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Gingerbread Cupcakes
Tonight all over Britain, people will be wrapped up warm against the elements, throwing straw effigies of Guy Fawkes (& typically local politicians) onto huge community bonfires and waving damp...
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Custard Tarts
Did you know that Custard Tarts have been around in Britain since the 14th Century? Along with such ‘delicacies’ as peacock, heron, stuffed suckling pig, jellied egg, and rabbit, custard pies filled...
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Afternoon Tea Scones
Have any of you been watching the brilliant series ‘Victoria‘ on ITV? Well, if you haven’t you really should. To be perfectly honest, period dramas aren’t really my cup of tea but there is something...
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