Category Archives: Desserts

Recipe – Grilled Plums with Cinnamon, Brown Sugar & Amaretto

Stone fruits are so luscious at this time of year and I can’t get enough of them. Faced with a large bowl of ripe purple and yellow plums and lacking inspiration, I decided to simply grill them with a little … Continue reading

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Recipe – Blackberry, Lime & Polenta Cake

This is one of those cakes that you really need to eat with a fork as it’s so squelchy  – and I’m not going to pretend it’s low in fat or sugar either. However for the occasional treat, this is … Continue reading

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Recipe – Frozen Berries with a Warm White Chocolate Sauce

Loosely adapted from a Patricia Lousada recipe that I combined with a happy error of mine, this is drop dead easy to make and turned out to be quite an elegant dessert when served on a pretty plate. Raspberries and … Continue reading

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Recipe – Chocolate Mousse (with Hazelnut Praline)

A good chocolate mousse is quite sublime and so ridiculously easy to make, that I wonder why people fork out their hard earned cash to buy those tiny chocolate mousses from high-end food emporiums, or worse, the little six-packs of … Continue reading

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Recipe – Candied Citrus Peel

Not exactly a dessert but these wonderful tangy little strips of crystallized citrus peel are simply divine served as a nibble with an espresso, or perhaps chopped and sprinkled onto cupcake frosting – or folded into cake and pancake batter … Continue reading

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Recipe – Lemon Pudding

Grandma used to make this and then so did Mum; a special pudding served after our traditional Sunday roast, usually around Easter time. It was a childhood favorite and one of those puddings that had us bouncing off the walls … Continue reading

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Recipe – S’Mores Parfait

I don’t image there’s anyone in the US who doesn’t know what S’Mores are but for everyone else, they’re a campfire treat consisting of a fat, toasted marshmallow, squished together with a square of milk chocolate between two graham cracker … Continue reading

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Recipe – Fresh Oranges in a Cranberry Caramel with Candied Cranberries

This refreshing dessert would be perfect for Valentine’s day. The cranberry caramel syrup has a lovely deep garnet color and quite an intense burnt-sugar-cranberry flavor that goes beautifully with fresh oranges – and you don’t need to use very much. … Continue reading

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Recipe – Panforte di Siena

Panforte di Siena comes in a variety of shapes and sizes and the original recipe can be traced back to the early 13th century (probably in Siena, Italy), which explains the numerous subtle variations. One of the many things that … Continue reading

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Recipe – Persimmon & Ginger Pudding Cake

This luscious dessert contains rather a lot of fruit puree and ground almonds (if using) and whereas it isn’t the prettiest pudding on the planet and definitely needs as bit of tarting up before you serve it, it really is … Continue reading

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