Baking

This wheat- and refined sugar-free crumble is a healthier way to bake with the season’s ripe berries.

A little orange juice (and zest) wakes up the icing of this crowd-pleasing cake with sweet citrus flavor.

Often pressed through a sieve and added to the batter for cakes or cookies, hard-boiled yolks prevent too much gluten from developing without weighing down the batter. The one-two punch of yolks and toasted flour makes for the most delicate, tender cookies you’ll ever taste.

There's something inherently festive about these tiny pies, packed full of sunny pineapple and capped with airy meringue. And since they're portable, guests can nibble while conversing.

Wild blueberries are small and flavorful, and the little bit of almond in the topping of this blueberry pie amps up their flavor even more.

To make the best use of your time, prepare the deceptively delicious cherry sauce while the corn cake is baking. The cake is best served either warm or at room temperature, with the stewed cherries spooned over the top. Since frozen cherries are available year-round, you’ll never need to wait for cherry season to enjoy this dessert.

A pistachio-oat crumble, perfumed with fragrant, floral cardamom adds interest to this juicy fruit pie.

One of those dreamy cookies elicits a silent reverence in every chocolate lover who tastes it.

With crunch from toasted walnuts and an optional boozy punch from rum-plumped raisins, this is the only carrot cake recipe you’ll ever need.

This hand-rolled biscuit recipe produces a fluffy (rather than flaky) biscuit, ready to be split and spread with flavorful honey butter.

I have lots of people asking me to create gluten-free recipes that do not just rely on the gluten-free flour that can be found in the shops. I have experimented with almond flour (ground almonds), but find that the resulting bakes can be quite heavy, which does not suit all baked goods, and also highly calorific. So while I use ground almonds in some things, I do like to use oats in others. The cinnamon in this recipe adds a lovely taste to the blueberries, as well as helping regulate blood sugar levels.

I have written many quiche recipes and usually they are mushroom with a little ham, but smoked salmon in a quiche gives a lot of flavor and works beautifully with the basil.