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12 November 2022

Chocolate Tea Loaf

Hi Bakers, I hope you’re all well and never too far away from your ovens. It’s been a while since I posted my last recipe. If you’re following Rise and Shine Baking on social media, you might have seen that I’ve been very busy re-starting some of my face-to-face baking classes, which I had to cancel due to the pandemic. While I’m doing my best to re-launch more regular classes […]
15 August 2022

Blueberry Lemon Tartlets

Hello Bakers, This recipe is my definition of a summer desert made in heaven: melt-in-the-mouth shortcrust pastry cases filled with delicious pastry cream paired up with lemon curd and sweet blueberries. For the ultimately flaky pastry, use cold butter, don’t overwork the dough (be gentle with it, it deserves a bit of TLC) and chill it for a couple of hours. No shortcuts here! Ideally, don’t attempt it on one […]
22 December 2021

Christmas Almond Stars

Christmas Almond Stars When it comes to food, Christmas should be all about sharing. These scrummy macaron-like star biscuits can be a fantastic gift for your loved ones. Made with only four ingredients: ground almonds, egg whites, icing sugar and almond extract, they’re easy and not too time-consuming. I must have made literally hundreds of them over the years and they always go down a storm! The good news for […]
25 October 2021

Speedy Pumpkin Bars

Pumpkin everywhere Hello Bakers, Halloween is this weekend so I couldn’t resist but test a few pumpkin recipes. Those of you who follow me on socials know that I’ve recently added pumpkin cookies to my online bake shop; they’re called Pumpkin Softies and are basically delicious mini cakes in disguise. You can order them here. Pumpkin bars in no time! These speedy pumpkin bars are exactly what it says on […]
18 June 2021

Small Batch No-Bake Summer Berry Cheesecake

Summer Berry Cheesecake   Hi Peeps, I’m sorry for the radio silence. My bake shop has taken over my life and it seems like all I’ve been doing in the last six months is baking tonnes of biscuits! I’m not quite sure how it happened but it’s Summer Solstice in two days’ time (yay!) which in my book means the long-awaited season of delicious, fresh, juicy berries from British farms. […]
26 March 2021

Hot Cross Buns Biscuits

Hi Rise and Shine bakers! It’s been ages since my last blog post but I assure you I’m still here. As most of you know from my regular updates on socials, in early December last year I launched  an online bake shop and have been very busy baking ever since. I’m going to write about the past four months and adapting my business to the new reality in a separate […]
7 December 2020

Christmas Gingerbread Biscuits

Christmas Gingerbread Biscuits Hello lovely people, apologies for being off radar for a while. Those of you who follow me on social media will have known by now the reason for my silence – I’ve been very busy setting up an online bake shop. The shop went live just a couple of days ago and I’m excited and nervous in equal measure! As due to the pandemic all of my […]
2 July 2020

Tangy Lemon Bars

I’ve wanted to share this recipe for a while as I’m a huge devotee to lemon deserts. Lemon bars, also known as lemon squares, seem to have fallen out of fashion for some reason. Yet when I recently baked them for my friends and neighbours their feedback was “One of your best so far! When are you putting the recipe up?” So here it comes, your wish is my command! […]
25 June 2020

Blackberry Crumble Muffins

Fancy foolproof summer muffins which can be made in minutes? Here they come! Last week I made yet another slightly different rhubarb cake in the hope that after tweaking the batter a bit I’d come up with a recipe for rhubarb muffins. The cake turned out to be a success and I got rather excited at the prospect of sharing a brand new recipe just to discover a few days […]