This is the story of two cakes. Well, actually three. This is the story of a beguilingly simple children’s birthday cake, which is the answer to so many problems. What do I make for my apex predator snob of a son? (His shortlist of preferred cakes ran to two; lion and shark). What’s something celebratory […]
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This is it. Finally, we have it. A wheat free, slow carbohydrate pizza that doesn’t involve blitzing cauliflower into rubble and trying with all your might to make it stick back together. Chickpea flour plus the brilliant soldering properties of psyllium husk and a little flaxseed for goodness are all that it takes. There’s no […]
There are cookies for different occasions. These ones are for the days when you’re just not sure what to say. If that’s what your facing – if you have a pressing need for a pliant, intensely chocolate flavoured cookie, made with unrefined brown sugar and ground oats instead of flour, skip straight to the bottom […]
I could spin an extended metaphor about why a roulade was the perfect cake for this occasion; about centrifugal force and how the more we spin, the more we feel glued together. (Nb, if you have no patience for things like this and just want the recipe stat, scroll to the bottom). It could be […]
I’m going to put it all the way upfront, because if you find out at the bottom, you might get twitchy and suspicious. There are lentils in these cookies. Yes, lentils. No flour, just lentils and some ground oats – not that you’d know it from the ‘snickers really satisfies’ taste that comes from muddling […]