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No Butter Chocolate Cake
No Butter Chocolate Cake with whipped chocolate ganache filling and chocolate ganache icing with a side of honey toffee walnuts. This is an excellent, versatile, and quick chocolate cake recipe that uses oil instead of butter. This is now my standard ‘go-to-chocolate-cake-recipe’. It is also a very forgiving recipe, in the sense […]
Vegetarian Cottage or Shepherd’s Pie
This is a vegetarian twist on the Cottage Pie, or Shepherd’s Pie. Some people refer to this vegetarian variety of the pie as a ‘Shepherdless Pie” (I guess the name “Cottageless” didn’t have the same appeal, and I certainly hope there are no shepherds in the pie). The brief backstory is that the […]
Honey Toffee Walnuts
This recipe is one of the reasons why I don’t mind scavenging around under walnut trees on cold autumn days, because these toasted walnuts covered in crispy toffee are absolutely delicious. Eat them as a tasty snack on their own, or chop them up finely to use as cake decorations, dessert topping, or […]
Cream Scones (no butter, no milk)
These are my favourite scones at the moment. Not only are they quick and simple to make, (more so than regular scones as there is no rubbing of butter into flour), but these are also very light in texture, and extremely moreish served with jam and whipped cream. Use a round 6 cm cutter […]
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Gluten Free Cream Scones
These scones are light in texture and have a slight, lovely crispness, due to the gluten free flour content, plus they cook and rise really well and taste excellent. This truly is a quick and easy recipe because cream replaces the milk and butter, (meaning no tedious rubbing in of the butter into […]
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