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If there’s one British dessert that deserves its own fan club, it’s sticky toffee pudding. Rich, deeply sweet, and absolutely drenched in toffee sauce — it’s perfection. I’ve been experimenting with turning it into cupcake form, and I’m rather pleased with the result. All the flavour of the classic, but in a neat little package…

These cupcakes are a lighter alternative to the usual scones, possibly not lighter in calories though I’m afraid, but at least there is an element of portion control! It’s very rare that I buy clotted cream but I made an exception for these cupcakes and I’m really pleased that I did. The cupcakes are really…

My cupcakes may look a little like Christmas with the frosted redcurrants but I love redcurrants coated in sugar, the combination of sweet and tart is amazing, second only to dipping a stick of rhubarb into a bag of sugar. I’ve got three redcurrant bushes in my fruit garden and they reward me with lots…

I’ve eaten more chocolate this year because the winter went on and on, I’m not a chocolate snob, but a bar of Lindt Excellence Strawberry Intense Dark Chocolate is hard to beat. The chocolate has pieces of freeze dried strawberries running through, it smells of summer and reminds me of strawberries dipped in chocolate. For…

I bought the raspberries on the spur of the moment, it was a grey day and they looked bright and beautiful, I did wonder if it might be an expensive purchase I’d later regret. My head said don’t buy them, my heart said I really want those raspberries. Well was I in for a nice…

The blogosphere is on overload with Cadbury Creme Eggs recipes, but alas I’m not a fan of the Creme Egg. The photographs and recipes I’ve seen though are enough to make me wish I was a Creme Egg fan. I’ve used my favourite chocolate filled eggs because I’m happy that I can decorate my cakes…