Just after Christmas my partner went food shopping and came home with two reduced punnets of fresh cranberries. I have no earthly idea what she thought we would do with fresh cranberries (let alone two packs!), but they had been enough of a bargain to justify their purchase. Ever since, they’ve sat in my freezer taking up valuable space and irritating me every time I’ve had to manoeuvre around them in order to get to something I’ve needed in the freezer, so I snapped the other day and let them defrost overnight and decided to try to make some cranberry cookies with them.
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Red Velvet Muffins (makes 12)
I think I was a teenager the first time I tasted red velvet cake and I remember thinking that it was out of this world because I love sweet cake that’s topped with cream cheese frosting. There’s just something about the contrast between sugary-sweet sponge cake and smooth, creamy and ever so slightly tart cream cheese frosting that really rocks my little world.
Copyright protected by Digiprove © 2018Rhubarb Cake with Lemon Sauce (serves 8-10)
I baked this rhubarb cake with lemon sauce after I’d been given a couple of handfuls of fresh rhubarb stalks from my Dad. I had intended on making a rhubarb tatin (much like the quintessential apple tart tatin), but I couldn’t be bothered waiting for my gluten-free puff pastry to defrost, so I just made it into a cake instead. I’ll get around to the rhubarb tatin some time…
Copyright protected by Digiprove © 2018Eton Mess (serves 4)
Eton Mess is a traditional English dessert which originated, no surprise here, at Eton College in the late 1800s. It’s formed of broken meringues, whipped cream and fruit (normally either strawberries or bananas) and it’s a perfect summer pudding due to the lightness of its ingredients.
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