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Biscuits
Ricciarelli Hearts
I made my version of these 4 or 5 years ago doing research for a magazine article. They are delicious and very moreish. Originally a macaroon style biscuit form Siena in Italy and often given as Christmas gifts. As I have a lov...
Biscuits
Melting Chocolate Moments
These are like Viennese fingers or whirls but all chocolate! Very crumbly melt in the mouth biscuits sandwiched together with dark chocolate ganache. I use fairly reasonably priced chocolate from the supermarket for most of my ...
Cakes
Food Photography Lighting Ideas
Although I love using natural light for a lot of my food photography, sometimes it’s just not an option. The UK has many days when the sun does not appear and when it does it’s not for long enough! So I have ...
Food Photography
Mini Break to Lacock, Wiltshire.
My other half, Gavin, and I recently had a cheeky mid week break away to Lacock in Wiltshire. It’s somewhere I had heard about for a while and at last managed to get a couple of nights booked for late September. The village is ...
Food Photography
Pouring Spoons Food Photography Video
I had great fun creating these images and putting it in to a video for Essential Photo using some of their brilliant Pixapro Glowpad lights. Excellent slim LED light panels that are battery operated which makes them super porta...
Biscuits
Pookies, Apple Pie Cookies
We recently had a wonderful couple of nights away, we stayed in a lovely B&B and when we left they gave us loads of Bramley cooking apples. I’ve made a few things with them and shared them with friends too. Then I dec...
Cakes
Coffee Drizzle Cake
I do love a coffee cake but don’t make them often as I’m the only one here that likes them, which means I end up eating most (by most I mean all) of it! I decided a cake crossed with a sugary drizzle topping ...
Pudding
Daim Mousse Shots
I had an idea this would be rather fabulous if it worked……and it did! I wasn’t convinced the Daim (well they used to be Dime in the UK back in the day, apparently that changed in 2005!) would melt, of course t...
