Recipes

This tart will work well in any season and with any fruit. Keep the frangipane but add whatever you like on top – apples, raspberries or even chocolate chips would be awesome.

It’s beginning to look a lot like autumn. And what could be more autumnal than squashes and pumpkins? The recipe is fairly straightforward; blondies are just brownies but made with white chocolate.

If you want a simple, super-awesome bread, that’s as forgiving as you like, you just need one piece of equipment that you definitely already have. A casserole pot.

This bakewell tart recipe is a simple and glorious creation – crumbly shortcrust pastry, raspberry jam and frangipane made with ground almonds. So essentially it’s cake wrapped in pastry. Awesome.

If you want to make this recipe really special, you might want to make a quick caramel by melting sugar in a pan drizzling this on top.

This is a must. A super-fast meringue, some shop-bought lemon curd with a little double cream and orange juice. That’s all you need to make a fast, gluten-free and delicious dessert.

This easy, humble tart should be ample justification to look out the rolling pin.

These cookies are some of the most delicious things you can bake in a hurry – from start to finish, you’re talking half an hour, if you need.

I baked this is a dish about two years ago on the Great British Bake-Off and it’s awesome – the lavender works really well.

This is the perfect afternoon tea accompaniment. Not a savoury, but definitely not overly sweet. And a bit intellectual too, what with the savvy juxtaposition of conflicting flavours combined with the near ubiquitous combination of “lemon and poppy seed”.

Not only is this recipe really very painless and risk-free, but it’s a demonstration of my one, ever-repeating concept in bread making: the wetter, the better. And this dough’s nice & clammy.

Blueberries just work in pancakes – they’re tradition in America, but haven’t ever had much of a reputation for greatness in the Scottish (and obviously superior) version of the flat, griddled cake.