Popcorn, pretzel and M&Ms cake
Some people can decorate cakes. They swirl buttercream, twirl floral wires and fiddle with sugarpaste until what you have before you is not a jam sponge, but a rose garden, a pirate ship or a dragon.
I can’t decorate [...]
Continue Reading →There’s something smugly pleasing about turning an inedible lump of food waste that was destined for the bin into a slab of tasty sponge cake. Albeit, only smugly pleasing if I ignore the fact that I allowed some food to go rotten in my fridge in the first place. I gloss [...]
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This is a great issue of delicious. and you should all buy it
Do you like baking? Do you also like Christmas? How about Christmas-related baking – do you like that? You do? Then this month’s issue of delicious. is for you.
On page 65, past the features on homemade [...]
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Once Good Friday has been toasted and buttered, there’s the problem of Easter itself. You have two traditional cake choices: the chocolate Easter nest or the Simnel cake
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Poor beetroot. It does all it can to make itself loveable. It comes in a variety of pretty pinks and purples, it’s full of all those vitamins and minerals we know we should eat more of, and it’s amenable to being eaten raw, cooked or however you [...]
Continue Reading →I don’t know if you’re aware of this, but some food bloggers are very keen on burgers. Very keen indeed. So when they have a birthday, there is only one possible cake that can be baked for them: a burger cake.
Originally I’d planned on doing a giant burger [...]
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After eating all the Welsh cakes in Cardiff at the Visit Wales lunch, I returned to London with a new griddlecake obsession. How could I not develop a long and loving fascination with something that tastes like a magic mix of pancake, biscuit and fried [...]
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It’s hard to know how best to celebrate the upcoming Royal Wedding. Sharing a Champagne breakfast, wearing a Union Jack waistcoat, getting tangled up in the bunting and plummeting to your death – so many options to choose from. I’ve decided to celebrate it by getting A Wedding confused [...]
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When I began my experiments in banana bread to help Alistair find the perfect recipe for Australian-style banana bread with polenta on top, @curlywurlyfi tweeted me to say she has a recipe that’s all kinds of excellent (or words to that effect) and would I like [...]
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I’ve developed a sudden mania for oranges. This is unusual for me. Normally I view oranges as satsumas’ difficult older brother, best served in a Tetra-Pak with added juicy bits.
But the sudden whiff of mildness in the air, the snowdrops in the park and the daffodils in the florist [...]
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My name is Jassy Davis and I'm a freelance food writer, recipe developer and food stylist. I write for magazines, websites and I'm the co-author of The Contented Calf Cookbook.
You can contact me at gindrinkers@gmail.com
