Desserts

To be honest, I didn’t expect to love this as much as I did. I usually go for Mary’s denser bakes—Victoria sponges, fruit cakes, you …

This one took me right back to Sunday lunches at my gran’s—where the kitchen steamed up like a sauna, and dessert was always something warm, …

I made this gooseberry and elderflower fool on a whim one sunny Thursday when I had half a bottle of elderflower cordial left from a …

There’s something about a proper cream sponge that just feels… cheekily indulgent, isn’t there? The kind of cake that whispers “tea first, chores later.” I …

You know that smug moment when you bring a dessert to the table and everyone actually gasps? That’s this pavlova. But let me tell you—it …