So recently we partook in one of our favourite activities with some friends… Brunch! In honour of the occasion we chose to do some baking, specifically we baked some breakfast sausage rolls. There’s just something magical about brunch, it combines many of our favourite things (cooked breakfast items, pastries and the potential for daytime drinking). […]
Straying away (only slightly) from our Creme Egg obsession, today we decided to make a classic, the easter nest with mini eggs. We’ve made ours my covering slices of swiss roll in chocolate and topping them with mini eggs. We made our own swiss roll as its a pretty quick and simple recipe but you […]
Pistachio is one of our all time favourite ingredients to bake with so we made a simple and delicious cake with pistachio, white chocolate and zingy raspberries! Pistachios can be used in so many ways, we’ve baked them into soft chocolate and pistachio buns, we’ve sprinkled them over a pomegranate and pink grapefruit pavlova and […]
An indulgent chocolate cake with a festive spiced twist. As far as flavours go, chocolate and ginger is easily one of our favourites. And sticking to our annual tradition of making an alternative christmas cake, this was an easy choice. As the both of us are not fans of the traditional christmas fruit cake, we […]
These small batch brownies are the perfect recipe to fix your sweet tooth cravings without making a whole batch (and probably eating the whole batch too). The coutry is on lockdown and we’re sure that we aren’t the only ones feeling the need to frequently raid the cupboards. The one benefit if being home […]
We have all been anticipating the Royal Wedding that was this weekend, the dress, the flowers, the guests and of course, the wedding cake. We have both been waiting to see the lemon and elderflower wedding cake made by Claire Ptak from Violet Cakes in London and on Saturday that day came. The cake was […]
After the success of our last batch we decided to try out a new flavour combination! When you take a batch of vegan buns into an office of hot cross fiends and no one can tell the difference (in fact they were even amazed to be told after tucking in) we knew we were onto […]
Gooey chocolate chip cookies filled with Creme Egg?! Yes please!! We’re big fans of all things Creme Egg, just check out all our previous bakes involving the delicious treats! Some of our favourites include the millionaires shortbread or the creme egg macarons!! So it’s a new year, Easter is approaching and we’re in the depths […]
Fun fact, combining sausage rolls with cheeseburgers creates the most delicious snack! So we’re no stranger to a sausage roll variation, we’ve put a couple up on the blog before like the breakfast ones or these with smoky paprika and chorizo or even a vegetarian version filled with falafel mix! This time around we decided […]
Creme Egg Pancakes, need we say more? The ultimate treat for pancake day So yes, we took chocolate flavour fluffy american style pancakes and filled them with chopped up pieces of creme egg… had enough chocolate yet? No? Good, because then we topped it with a hot ganache sauce. We are big fans of anything […]
A very last minute festive post for you, the ultimate Christmas cheesecake. Cheesecake isn’t necessarily everyone’s go to cheesecake dessert but this one really is a good’un! the white chocolate and frosted berries both taste delicious and make it completely appropriate for this time of year (although it can definitely be made and eaten all […]
We’re not the first ones to the mac and cheese balls party but we filled them with stilton and had to share it with you!! So yes, mac and cheese balls are literally everywhere these days, and we are certainly not complaining about that. We love the balls. We’ve been wanting to make these for […]
You either hate it or you love it, and we LOVE it. Especially when you combine it with cheese… Look if you’re a Marmite hater, we respectfully disagree but also, this recipe clearly isn’t one for you… if you’re a lover, then please enjoy! Cheese and Marmite, are a truly classic combo! We often find […]
IT’S CHRISTMAS!!! 1st December has arrived and that can only mean one thing. Let the celebrations begin and the Christmas treats commence. We are kicking it off with a classic made Christmassy. Cupcakes. We have topped a regular chocolate cupcake with a peppermint frosting to create a ‘candy cane cupcake’. By adding red food colouring […]
Chocolate? Yes! Passion fruit? Yes! Chocolate and passion fruit cake?! Hell yes!! I’m sure most of you have heard of Lily O’Briens before, if not you’ve definitely been missing out! When they reached out to us asking if we wanted to create a recipe inspired by their dessert collection we knew that the hardest part […]
If coffee and chocolate are your thing we may just have the perfect dessert for you right here. This is one of those tarts that’s so delicious that the people you serve it to will be delighted and shower you with compliments, completely unaware of the secret to it’s simplicity… Green’s tiramisu mix! You may […]
So it’s fall, pumpkin spiced season has well and truly started and we have been inspired to make some baked goods. Nothing beats a good gooey brownie when it’s cold outside (they’re good all year round but still, either fresh out the oven or popped in the microwave you have yourself a yummy warm dessert. […]
We love nothing more than converting much loved desserts into cake form! You may have seen that a couple weeks ago we posted a recipe for some seriously tasty lemon meringue pie macarons… well those lil beauties were to go on top of this lemon meringue pie cake! In order to truly encapsulate the tasty, […]
The ultimate Italian pastry, we chose to flavour ours with chocolate and pistachio. So this week was Italian week, and it was full of amazing treats, as much as we may love pizza, we couldn’t resist the call of the cannoli. We’ve been dying to make these for a while, although were very glad we […]
We can’t resist making macarons, so when we combined our favourite patisserie with tart lemon curd and brûléed meringue we just had to share it with you! These beauties were made to decorate a lemon meringue pie cake, but they are star of the show all on their own. The lemon curd centre really helps […]
Pastry week’s technical challenge gave us the perfect excuse to have a go at making pastéis de nata! Pastry week is always one of our favourites and this year was no different and the cherry on top of the pie was that Liam got star baker! He’s definitely become one of our most loved contestants […]
Swapping sherry for prosecco in our take on pudding week’s showstopper challenge! Pudding week is always a favourite of ours, and we had a real tough time choosing what bake to do this week, as the call of a steamed pudding is hard to resist. However, knowing that we’ve got at least 1 steamed pudding […]
We’ve been wanting to make a mille crepe for a while, so we whipped up a tiramisu flavoured one in time for international coffee day! Mille crepe is a French dessert, kind of like a cake made out of many layers of pancakes with a filling in between. Bringing together the French and Italian cultures, […]
Caramel week was always going to be a good one, and we couldn’t turn down an opportunity to make a millionaire’s shortbread! First and foremost, may we just say that Liam was ROBBED of the star baker title! He’s really upped his game and that peanut butter signature was something of pure joy, a little […]
