There’s an air of mystique around baking, but it’s easy to master with a little guidance. Cakes, bread, pies, tarts, slices, biscuits, crumbles and flans – here are my favourite baking recipes
Baked Tapioca Cake Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Malaysian cooking class! This moist, springy cake, called kuih bingka ubi kayu in Malay, is a Nyonya favourite – and it’s super easy. You could grate fresh cassava, but the frozen packets sold in Asian grocery stores are very handy. This version, based on the […]
Lemon Shortbread Cookies Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Australian cooking class inspired by Matt Moran! I created these lemon shortbread cookies by accident. I started thinking about classic Aussie melting moments – but I didn’t have any cornflour so substituted rice flour, which gave my cookies more of a shortbread texture. I still […]
Potato, Smoked Eel & Fontina Tart Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Northern Italian cooking class inspired by Alessandro Pavoni! This deliciously versatile potato & fontina tart can be vegetarian, but potatoes and smoked fish are such natural partners that I sometimes add smoked eel. Hot-smoked rainbow trout also works; either way use about […]
Guinea Fowl Bisteeya Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Middle Eastern cooking class inspired by Michael Rantissi! Variously written as bisteeya, bastilla, bestela, bastila, pastilla or pastila, this Moroccan pie has many variations but is traditionally an elaborately spiced preparation of pigeon, egg, almonds and warqa pastry, which is similar to Greek fillo pastry. […]
Apple Crumble Like this recipe? You’ll love my online British cooking class! I have more of a savoury than a sweet palate, so I don’t make a lot of desserts. When I do, they have to be super quick and easy like this delicious apple crumble. If you have a sweeter palate you might like […]
Hot Cross Buns Like this recipe? You’ll love my online British cooking class! We always had hot cross buns on Good Friday when I was growing up and never on any other day. They were a special treat marking the beginning of the Easter long weekend and a traditional hot cross bun recipe is still […]
Chive Pull Aparts Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Australian cooking class inspired by Matt Moran! These pull-aparts are simply a scone dough rolled up with a savoury filling. So, as with any scones, the trick is not to handle the dough any more than is necessary (see video below). Use any filling you […]
Tarte Tatin Like this recipe? You’ll love my online French cooking class Inspired by Damien Pignolet! Tarte Tatin is one of those classics that I didn’t attempt for a long time for fear it would be too tricky. Turns out it’s super quick and easy, especially if you use a good ready-made shortcrust pastry like […]
Baked Vegetarian Kibbeh Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Lebanese cooking class! I love the classic torpedo-shaped kibbeh that often appear as part of Lebanese meze, but baked kibbeh (bil sanieh means ‘in the pan’) is much quicker to make and more popular as a family meal. Lakteen means ‘trick’ in Arabic and the […]
Chocolate & Raspberry Brownies Like this recipe? You’ll love my online cooking class featuring the food of America’s Deep South! This American classic is one of the easiest sweet treats to make. The recipe could be written in one sentence: melt butter and chocolate, whisk eggs and sugar, combine, fold in flour and bake. The […]
