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Red velvet cupcakes – a fraught day in the kitchen

These cupcakes make perfect Valentines cupcakes. Despite being a really thick batter, they are incredibly light.

Chicken Rice

A recipe that sure does what it says on the tin. Yes, it looks like the world’s dullest meal, but I’ve been brought up on this traditional Malaysian food and the recipe I’m telling you has been passed down through 3 generations of my family. If there was one food I had to live on for the rest of my life (apart from Dim Sum), it’d be this.

Review: Restaurant 27

My review of the newly-opened Restaurant 27

Winter warmer: Hot apple juice mixer

We’ve been drinking a lot of hot drinks to keep us warm recently, we bought a load of mulled wine from the supermarket (yes we cheated) and when that was gone we moved on Pimm’s Winter which you drink with hot apple juice. During snow week when we couldn’t go to work, we searched the [...]

Extra moist chocolate fudge cake

I’ve been looking for a very special chocolate cake recipe for a while – one that actually tastes chocolatey. The recipes I have suggest putting a tablespoon of cocoa powder in a normal victoria sponge but this never ever tastes good to me! This recipe doesn’t use any raising agent surprisingly and comes from The Telegraph from many years ago.