This recipe for Louise cake with plum and coconut comes from Yotam Ottolenghi and Helen Goh’s incredible new cookbook called ‘Sweet’. This book ‘speaks’ to me in every…
This recipe for coffee, chocolate, and Nutella cookie sandwiches comes from Cait McWilliams who was the winner of the second season of The Great South African Bake Off.…
The malva pudding is one of the most traditional South African desserts you will find, and here I’ve made a pear and ginger version because these flavours work…
This is one of those gimmicky recipes that really is quite delicious. I’ve tweaked it over the years to get the right amount of cheese and herbs in…
This is one of the most unusual cakes I have ever come across and is really more of a rough biscuit than a cake. Nonetheless, it hits my…
For some bizarre reason we don’t get peanut butter M & M’s in South Africa. We get a few of the others but not the peanut butter ones.…
These chocolate Nutella brownies should come with a health warning as they are ridiculously decadent, and I apologise for that. I know its January and we are all…
This Pavlova is a showstopper of a dessert and worth every bit of effort. I poached the pears in red Muscadel – the same Orange River Cellars bottle…
The base of this Irish soda bread is from Paul Hollywood who is pretty much the bread god of England. It’s also the easiest bread you will ever…
Winter has arrived with full force in Cape Town as our first big cold front hits. Up until now we’ve had a long and beautiful autumn and I’ve…
I think I went a little OTT with this one, but I figured the world doesn’t need another banana bread recipe (yawn), so I mixed it up. Blueberries,…
In South Africa we call passion fruit granadilla for some strange reason, but I prefer to use the former name due to the international readers of Drizzle and…