It’s the most wonderful time of the year and also the baking-est time of the year! From cakes to cookies, pies to crumbles, winter baking is always my favourite. I thought I’d put together a list of five lovely Christmassy desserts I’ve made over the years and if you’re looking for ideas, I hope these…
Christmas Baking
The Last-Minute Christmas Cake
I’m not organised enough to start a Christmas fruit cake the traditional way, by soaking the fruits for weeks, and then feeding the cake with rum for another few weeks before slicing into it. If you can relate, this recipe is for you! Made just a few days before Christmas by cooking the fruits in…
Chocolate Gingerbread Cake with Cream Cheese Molasses Frosting
This cake has all of the holiday flavours you could think of and is genuinely a treat! With fresh ginger and ground spices, molasses for more signature gingerbread flavour aaaaaand chocolate. Top that with a silky cream cheese frosting that also has a bit of molasses and you have yourself a very merry Christmas!
Date Rum & Orange Cake
Alternate name for this cake: The Christmas Cheat Cake. Because somehow, with a fraction of the time and ingredients, this emerged from the oven smelling like a loaded, boozy Christmas fruit cake. Maybe the rum-soaked dates have something to do with it? Or the copious amounts of fresh orange juice? Either way, this is a…
Five Times Chocolate: an e-book of eggless recipes!
So excited to tell you all that I’ve worked on a little e-book to give you some fun end-of-year baking ideas! This book has five recipes that are all eggless, made with chocolate and festive ingredients like rum, caramel and orange. But I promise they’re the kind of recipes you can make all year round…