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Better cookies
There have been occasions for cookies recently – visits with friends, the need for something sweet on a cold night, so last week I determined that I would make some Oatmeal Raisin Cookies, which always...
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Bad-tempered Cookies
It’s quarter to midnight and I’ve just finished mopping tomato ketchup off the floor. Cookies are a nightmare. No really. I’ve had it up to here. I was a fool. I read Adam’s enthusiastic, nay,...
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Mini chocolate walnut cookies
There’s something in the air about miniature desserts. Dan Lepard profiled mini-cakes in Sainsbury’s magazine last month. Yotam Ottolenghi wrote a piece for the Guardian‘s weekend food column on...
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Beginning to bake #6: Cookies
Biscuits or cookies – there are hundreds of variations. Providing a basic recipe for biscuits is hard – there are thousands of different biscuit or cookie recipes out there, and every country has it’s...
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Gingerbread men (or stars, or trees…)
Every year I try and make a few homemade things for Christmas to send to friends and take to family. All right, not a few, a lot. There was the year I decided to make two sorts of truffles, dipped in...
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Egg whites, meringues and macarons
Updated: now with links updated You can do so many things with even a small amount of egg white. As they are the best ingredient for capturing air, you can expand even a single egg white into a...
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What makes meringues chewy?
Meringues are one of the simplest things to bake, with just two ingredients. But because of this simplicity, there isn’t much room for error. As with many baked goods that are difficult to get right,...
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Baking with jam
I have a bit of jam fetish. At the present moment, my fridge contains homemade strawberry jam, marmalade and lemon curd, as well as bought apricot and lingonberry jams. In the cupboard is more...
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