cranberry and caraway seed cake

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There’s nothing I like better than tea and cake in the garden to cheer me up, as long as I can manage to dodge the rain. I have memories of my grandma in her dark silk dress and furry slippers making seed cake. Never chocolate or ginger or fruit cake, it was always caraway seed. I don’t think I enjoyed it at the time, as I think caraway seed is quite an adult sort of flavour, slightly spicy and interesting and really not like anything else. I must confess, this isn’t really Grandma’s recipe, I have no idea what recipe she used. I like to imagine that it wasRead More →

helen green millionaire's shortbread

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Aah Millionaire’s Shortbread! Is it healthy? Is it even remotely good for you? Of course not! But hey, sometimes a little bit of something lovely is just what you need. Now there seems to be some debate about why it is called millionaire’s shortbread and people have written quite long blogs on the subject. But I have always assumed it is because shortbread itself is luxurious, buttery, crunchy and sweet; include a type of delicious caramel made with condensed milk and you have added a further layer of luxury, top it off by pouring on some rich dark chocolate and you have a treat so luscious, so scrumptious, so self-indulgentRead More →