Do you get intrigued sometimes by slightly odd recipes? - with slightly unlikely ingredients? – (especially if they turn out to be surprisingly yum) Well then here’s a little corker for you. My friend and fellow cake enthusiast Justine Blore shared this recipe with me recently. I’ve adapted it to low/almost zero sugar and tweaked it with a little additional flavour to compensate for the subtler sweetness. Read more

Look at this little beauty, all dressed up and festive. Stand aside sugary, carby Christmas puddings, this lime chilli and raspberry posset’s in town. Read more

Isn’t it a wonderful thing when something surpasses your expectations? Take this cake for example - I’ve always tended to think of Coffee and Walnut cake as a bit dull and 1970s. Something you’d see next to a few slices of Battenburg perhaps. Nevertheless, in the (cake)spirit of endeavour, I thought I’d have a go at one – a low carb, very…. very… low sugar one. Read more

The nights are drawing in, the temperatures are getting shivery. Verily, it’s the time for comfort eating. Which is primarily why I’ve been baking this beauty quite a lot recently. This isn’t a bog standard choc cake by any means. The sponge is so soft and appealing, you could almost lay your head on it. The rich caramelly chocolate topping borders on the addictive. Read more

Since going low carb/sugar free, landing upon a just-as-good-if-not-better wheat free crumble has been a surprisingly elusive thing. And a pretty sad situation too – who doesn’t love a fruit crumble? Read more