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Bakewell tart
Bakewell Tart is renowned for its delicate balance of textures and flavours. At its heart lies a crisp and buttery shortcrust pastry base, providing the perfect foundation for the layers to come. The tart is then generously filled with a layer of raspberry jam, adding a sweetness that contrasts beautifully with the richness of the […]
Hot Cross Buns
This is a yearly staple in our house. Come Easter I make these regularly, my family love them with either sultanas, currants, raisins, plain or (this one was new last year) chocolate chips…..yum. This recipe is a compilation of various recipes either from the internet or old cooking books. I love playing around with recipes, mixing […]
Orange flavoured mini doughnuts – Rosquillas de Naranjas
These delightful little morsels graced our afternoon tea table on numerous occasions. They are the perfect size to be eaten in two bites (sometimes even one), can be packed and carried rather easily as they are quite hardy, and taste great. These doughnuts – as opposed to a lot of other recipes – are baked and therefore produce […]
Quick and Easy Apple Cake
I’m not too sure if this recipe was taken from my Grandmother’s cooking books, as the only version I have is in my handwriting. It could have been that I copied it out of her notebooks are some of them are really old and the writing is fading rapidly, but it could also have been […]
Panallets – traditional Christmas bites
These little morsels of delight, are called panallets (pronounced pan-ah-jets). Although a customary dessert for all saints day in Catalonia and Andorra, they are traditionally made during the Christmas period on the Rock of Gibraltar where I hail from. These little guys are so easy to make, are gluten free, look impressive on your table and taste […]
Honey and Oil biscuits
This recipe is an extremely old one, as my grandmother’s recipe book states it’s her mother’s biscuit recipe. With roots which I believe are from traditional Italian biscuit recipes, there is no way that you can go wrong with a biscuit base made with oil and honey. Having made these biscuits a couple of times, I […]
Lemon shortbread
Lemon shortbread is synonymous to summer time tea. After all what is a proper afternoon tea if it doesn’t contain at least one type of shortbread (and scones, afternoon tea needs to have scones for sure). Like the majority of recipes in the blog, this one hails from my grandmother’s repertoire, although she called them […]
Banana Bread
Banana Bread is the perfect afternoon tea bread- whether its at the pool, beachside, or simply at your kitchen table, you can’t go wrong with this delicious and moist loaf.
Lely’s Easter Biscuits
I think that one of the things we most like as kids is eating biscuits and dunking them in milk. I remember eating biscuits nearly every day, more so in the summer months when we habitually had tea on the beach. Nothing beats the taste of tea at the beach , actually there really is […]
Apple Crumble
I think its fair to say that every household in Gibraltar has a recipe for Apple crumble or some sort of other fruit crumble. It must have been one of the easiest desserts to make, plus because seasonal fruit was used, it would have been a very economic recipe to help stretch the weekly wages […]