Claire Ptak’s secret ingredient: vanilla vodka London’s star baker has a thrifty way to add a luxury fragrance and flavour to cakes, cookies, ice-cream – everything!
Hot cross bun cookies, chocolate toasties and cake: Claire Ptak’s Easter baking recipes From traditional Sicilian cassata to comforting cake and custard, these Easter bakes are full of candied citrus, spices … and chocolate
Chocolate eggs, lamb wellington, broad bean tagliatelle – the 20 best recipes for Easter From a lunch of Nigel Slater’s roast chicken or Meera Sodha’s lamb curry, to sweet specialities like Claire Ptak’s chocolate and bay tarts or Ben Tish’s citrus sweet bread, we choose our favourite Easter dishes
Tarunima Sinha’s recipe for panna cotta cake An impressive spring cake, this can be prepared in advance of your family Easter lunch
Milk chocolate and bay leaf tarts recipe by Claire Ptak A truffle-like filling with a crisp cookie crust, plus bay leaves to add a layer of complexity, results in a special chocolate treat
Banana cocoa cake with whipped ganache and pecan brittle recipe by Helen Goh Unadorned, this cake is light enough for a lunchbox treat, but the ganache and pecan brittle makes it worthy of a celebration
Ben Tish’s recipe for Sicilian lemon and orange sweet bread Packed with citrus flavours, nuts and cinnamon, this Sicilian version of a traditional Italian Easter cake will bring rays of sunshine
Cédric Grolet at the Berkeley, London W1: ‘Spiking the blood sugar levels of Europe’ – restaurant review A Frenchman wading into Britain’s fractious ‘jam or cream first?’ scone debate is either foolhardy or admirable
Anja Dunk’s Christmas cakes, bakes and chocolate recipes Spiced biscuits, marzipan cake and Flammkuchen – a celebration of festive German baking
Tarunima Sinha’s recipes for cakes, bakes and your new best friands Sweet, salty, savoury and beautifully balanced recipes, perfect for the start of autumn
Save the last slice for me: four cakes for Easter Brilliant recipes for passion fruit panna cotta sponge, coconut tres leches, banana-cocoa and pecan brittle – and a chocolate mousse gateau
Benjamina Ebuehi’s luxurious Christmas bakes and cakes Almond cinnamon cake, sage and onion twists, mulled wine tarte tatin – recipes inspired by the scents of the season
Why biscuits will see us through the good times and the bad A person’s choice of biscuit can say a lot about character. Pass me another Jammie Dodger…
Nadiya Hussain: ‘I want to blend in. But the truth is, I’m never going to blend in’ Five years after winning Bake Off, she’d love to just talk about baking and cookbooks. But then there’s diversity in TV, mental health, the pandemic…
The bakery teaching disadvantaged women cooking – and life – skills Luminary Bakery started as a way of finding women work, but it quickly became much more