Category: Baking

There is something deeply comforting about a slow weekend morning. Instead of rushing out the door with a takeaway cup in hand, many of us are reclaiming our early hours. The simple joy of staying in your pyjamas, listening to the morning birds, and taking time for yourself is incredibly…

There’s a particular kind of banana that sits in the fruit bowl getting steadily more freckled and sad looking, and you keep telling yourself you’ll use it, until one day it’s basically a banana-shaped bag of mush. If that sentence made you wince because you’re currently avoiding eye contact with…

This is one of those questions that comes up in my kitchen at least once a fortnight (we do a lot of baking here), usually shouted through from the lounge by one of the kids halfway through reading out an American recipe they’ve found online. So, quick answer first, because…

Mary Berry’s fork biscuits are about as simple as baking gets: butter, caster sugar and self-raising flour, rolled into balls and flattened with a wet fork before baking. That’s it. There’s no egg, no vanilla extract and no special equipment involved. However, if you have searched for this recipe recently,…

If you’d told me a few years ago that I’d have strong opinions about butter, I’d have laughed at you. But here we are. Whipped, fluffy, ridiculously spreadable butter has genuinely changed breakfast in this house, and it started, like most good things in my kitchen, with someone moaning at…