Today I’m writing about how to make the best dairy free porridge, topped with delicious spiced apples and pears and drizzled with a sweetener of your choice, or none at all, which makes this a no added sugar recipe. It’s the perfect bowl of hot wholesome goodness for your morning’s chow during this cold snap. Brrrrrrrrrrr. It’s cold. Really cold. Every morning I sit patiently in my car and watch the heating create a lozenge …
Low Sugar Dark Chocolate Spelt Brownies
Today’s recipe is low sugar dark chocolate spelt brownies, a rich and dark recipe sweetened with dates instead of mountains of refined sugar. Cakes with no refined sugar can present challenges to the baker, because sugar gives structure to cakes as it’s a solid once cooled. Luckily brownies are all the better for being thick, squidgy and gooey, which are boxes these spelt brownies comprehensively tick. Whether you’re simply wanting to cut down on your …
Honey Walnut Celeriac Cake
The fabled, long lost celeriac cake recipe. Today I’m writing about a cake inspired by the ever popular carrot cake, but with a spin to make something completely different, a cake created with the beautifully ugly vegetable, celeriac, using no refined sugar. Celeriac cake is something which crosses the boundaries between sweet and savoury, because although this is undoubtedly a sweet cake, you still get some of the lovely celeriac flavour coming through, which creates …
Fruit loaded mini cherry clafoutis
It’s food based confessional again, this time I’ll confess that I didn’t eat strawberries for thirty years. Damn, that sounds like a long time. I have a slight recollection of eating berries as a young child, but spent my teens, twenties and some of my thirties professing that I simply didn’t like berries, currants or any fruit in that genre such as grapes. Cherries also fall under that large sweeping generalisation, as they’re far too …