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 […]

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 […]

Pepparkakor (Gingerbread Biscuits) Decorated with Royal Icing

    Pepparkakor is a traditional Swedish recipe. These Scandinavian spicy biscuits are traditionally served on St Lucia Day, which is a celebration of light on the longest night of the year. St Lucia Day is one of the biggest Christmas-time celebrations in Sweden and is held on the 13th December. This date was unknown […]

Gluten-Free Shortbread Christmas Stars

    This recipe uses only four ingredients and makes a very light shortbread that melts-in-the-mouth. The mixture has a beautiful soft and fluffy texture, and as I was hand-mixing the flours, I imagined this is what mixing white, soft, fluffy, clouds would be like! These biscuits make great Christmas gifts for those who are […]

Ginger and Almond Christmas Biscuits

  Christmas Tree shaped Ginger and Almond Christmas Biscuits strung on ribbons.     For those of you who like raw biscuit mixture rather than cooked, I can recommend this gingerbread biscuit recipe as a very, very tasty raw mixture indeed (I kept sneaking off to the fridge and cutting off pieces while the dough […]