Currently reading: Short and Sweet


Short and Sweet is a lovely cookery book and you feel he really knows what he’s talking about. It covers all the classics, pastry and so on, but also there’s lots of unusual ideas, next excuse I have I’m going to try the Quinoa Hazelnut Cake. At the weekend I made the brown sugar chocolate cake, really nice with half fat crème fraiche :)

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  1. By messing about on boats on October 16, 2011 at 7:53 pm

    [...] of tea. Boats are kind of fascinating :) I brought a dark sugar chocolate cake like the one I made the other day, this time I iced it with a chocolate fudge icing from the same book. The others were off on a trip [...]

  2. By Quinoa hazelnut cake (gluten free) on November 6, 2011 at 4:25 pm

    [...] the idea of a quinoa cake was intriguing when I saw the recipe in Dan Lepard’s book Short and Sweet. The recipe is here too: quinoa and hazelnut cake. It was great, it’s nice to have a gluten [...]