Tag: caster sugar
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Pistachio topped banana loaf cake
It’s essential to use very ripe bananas for this loaf cake to get the depth of flavour – the browner and spottier the skins the better. I started making it just to use the leftovers at the end of the week so that they wouldn’t go to waste. Then, I found out that everyone was…
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Apricot and almond crumble
I have a pretty big collection of cookery books, most of which have really beautiful pictures of finished dishes in them, often in settings that evoke the feelings of a season or a location that inspired them. We eat with our eyes so they say, so it’s understandable that we are drawn to cook the…
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Mmmmm macarons!
I can’t think why I’ve never made macarons until recently. Perhaps it’s because, if you buy them from a shop, they are sooooo expensive that I thought they must be tricky to make at home. Well, I had a surfeit of egg whites and I didn’t want to make a pavlova or meringues, so I…
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