Pies, Pastries, Tarts & Crumbles

Before I made this pie (and then ate a quarter of it during a revision break), I’d never actually eaten cherry pie before. I think this is down to two factors: I basically never bake with cherries (yo, £4.50 for a 400 g carton. I’d normally…

Yeah so it somehow happened again: I’ve made it into the finalists of Saveur’s Best Food Blog awards in the Desserts and Baking category!! I am JUST as stunned by this as I was last year (if not more). It’s such a huge deal…

Yooo, it’s totally mince pie time guys. I’m throwing these delicious little fruity tarts at your screens because I think it’s time for a bit of traditional-food-appreciation. In general – mince pies suck. But that’s because, in general, people buy em. The store bought…

The light is gradually getting more and more grey here – especially today when it started TIPPING down with rain. It makes it actually more believable to me that it’s October – I’m used to the rain, I expect it. That and how the…

Fruit Izy you’re posting fruit And pastry Where am I Where’s the chocolate and the cinnamon and maple syrup Are you okay? Well, you may or may not know, but I just completed my art AS level! (One subject down, 3 more to go.…

As evident from my instagram, I am majorly into breakfast foods. Give me a piece of sunflower seed toast, a selection of nut butters and some maple syrup, and I can whip up a multi-layered toast snack that will kill any craving, for real.…

  Okay, so, as I said in the chocolate croissant post, this series of recipes use only 1/4 of the croissant dough each (i.e. 1 piece of dough). That means you can make: a batch of croissants, a batch of chocolate croissants, a batch of…

  Okay, so I’m continuing on from last week’s tutorial on croissant dough and shaping croissants to bring you two alternative uses for it! This is a guide for shaping chocolate croissants, and of course, I had to bring cinnamon into this whole thing…

Croissants are just one of those things where you will never fully appreciate one when you eat it, until you’ve put in the hours making them yourself. They aren’t incredibly difficult but they really are a labour of love! Once you’ve got the method…

It’s half term at last! Two weeks of uninterrupted freedom, the only time I have to properly relax until the summer. Mock exams, A-level choices and GCSEs are just round the corner, makes me stressed just thinking about it! So little time, so much…