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Rustic Cocoa Cookies
I decided to create a new cookie recipe for a recent food photography lighting demo. It needed to be rustic and preferably more than one colour. This was the delicious result! The white chocolate is optional, but looks good and...
Biscuits
Bourbon Biscuits
I love biscuits, they are the perfect accompaniment with a cuppa, great for a mid afternoon pep and handy for snacks & picnics.Here’s my take on that fab chocolatey classic, the bourbon. I hope you love it as much as we do....
Biscuits
Ginger Biscuits
Ginger Biscuits Printable recipe Easy to make and delicious, these remind me of childhood holidays to Cornwall. We always bought some Cornish Farthings for my Dad, they came in a tube and the smell when you opened them was love...
Biscuits
Cranberry Easter Biscuits
I wanted to make a variation on the traditional and delicious Easter biscuit. One of us at home is not a huge dried fruit fan but does like cranberries so with those and some orange zest and of course a little spice, these are ...
Biscuits
Hint of Christmas Cookies
These scrummy cookies are nice and easy to make, I hardly had chance to take any photo’s of these before they disappeared! You can vary the end result by leaving some as a ball of dough as some people like a softer cookie...
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...
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
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...
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...
Recipes
White Chocolate and Cherry Fudge
White Chocolate and Cherry Fudge I love fudge, it makes a great gift and will keep well. Here’s a variation I tried recently which went down well. White Chocolate and Cherry Fudge Makes 50-60 bite sized pieces Ingredients...