Every time I think the chocolate chip cookie has peaked, it grabs a change of clothes and manages a makeover. This time around, it upped itself with a vanilla bean, a good dose of coffee and lots and lots of salt. Creating what is easily the softest, chewiest, most flavourful chocolate chip cookies I’ve eaten…
recipes
Homemade White Bread
Carb overload day is heeeere! You guys, a tender, chewy, crusty loaf of white bread is the nicest thing you’ll ever bake in your house. More gratifying than pretty much anything else, I feel. And I bake a lot of things. Your home will smell like that old-school bakery you wish was a little closer…
Peach Mascarpone Shortcakes (Eggless)
This season’s stone fruit is slowly beginning to disappear and so you need to make these shortcakes right now. Plus, why wouldn’t you want to? Tender, buttery biscuits filled with peaches soaked in a divine honey thyme syrup, topped off with creamy mascarpone. Literally all I want to eat all day. This is such a…
Peach & Oat Smoothie
I’ve now started raving about smoothies as much as I do about cookies. There is either something desperately wrong with me, or this is just a part of adulting, which is slightly scary but I assume good for me. This is the smoothie you didn’t know could possibly qualify as a meal in itself. Fruits, yoghurt aaaaand…
Mini Cherry Streusel Cakes (Eggless)
The obsession with small desserts and many many cherries is baaaack! This time, topped with a crunchy brown sugar oat streusel, because we can. The cakes are quick to make, eggless, tender, buttery. Fresh cherries are spooned on top of each one, plenty of streusel is sprinkled on. The whole thing smells like a party…
Spiced Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Taking a short break from all of the stone fruit this season to bring you some classic, no-fuss cookies. Soft, chewy, warmly spiced oatmeal cookies with raisins aaaaand toasted walnuts. I really must be growing up if I’m finally choosing mix-ins other than chocolate chips. What is happening. These cookies blew my mind. They have so…
Limoncello Peach Sangria
We drank a white-wine-orange-juice drink out of champagne flutes so my first thought was this should be called a mimosa. But I added sliced peaches and citrusy, sharp Limoncello to it, so it then began to feel like more of a sangria. And because technicalities confuse me, I just went with sangria because fruits in…
Boozy Cherry Chocolate Cakes with Vanilla Mascarpone
Stop whatever you’re doing. Unless you’re dousing fresh cherries in rum, in which case please continue. This weekend, promise me you’ll make yourself a batch of rich, fudgy, booooozy chocolate cakes, topped with the quickest, most delicious vanilla mascarpone because really, what else would you rather do? Laced with rum, these little cakes are sort…
Mini Cherry Lattice Pies
The curse is broken! Drama-free pies, at last. And what a way to break it. You guys, making mini pies is not only infinitely less stressful than a giant one, they’re also a lot more fun to eat. Your very own little personal pie. With ice cream, or not. The choice is yours. But you…