My Mum turned 60 in December and to celebrate I decided to bake a special birthday cake. I made a vanilla layer cake with vanilla...

To celebrate our first anniversary of homebrewing beer I have decided to tell you my top tips for homebrewing beer!

So simple to make with only 4 ingredients, these tasty almond macaroons are crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside. They are...

I saw this NYC style cookie recipe posted on Jane’s patisserie‘s blog a couple of months ago and I have wanted to make it ever since. I...

A quick, no-nonsense beetroot, goats cheese and walnut tart. Tasty and super easy. I think I am a little obsessed with simple savoury...

I made this tasty cake just before Christmas when I was feeling pretty Christmassy and before London moved into Tier 4 and our big family...

A light refreshing American pale ale homebrewed to be shared with friends. This was our Christmas beer that we brewed to share with...

Coconut macaroons are one of my absolute favourite treats. Packed full of coconut, crisp and golden on the outside but gloriously soft...

It was time to make another stout. This time a milk stout. This beer gets its name from the addition of the milk sugar, Lactose into the...

When the colder months of the years come around I find myself craving root vegetables and large squashes. Basically I start craving...

I love brownies and I love Terry's Chocolate Orange so why not make Terry's Chocolate Orange Brownies! A simple idea and then a recipe...

Continuing our experimentation with different styles of beers, this time we brewed an American wheat beer. We have never brewed a wheat...

We decided to re-brew another one of our beers again! This time we decided to take on our juicy fruit pale ale recipe. Last time we...

In our local pub they have a selection of books for browsing and one book including Mikkeller's Book of Beer. When we first started...

So I absolutely love the spice Cardamom. I love the smell and I have used it in countless savoury recipes but I had never baked anything...

So we decided it was time to take it back to basics with another SMaSH IPA. SMaSH stands for single malt, single hops, so it is as simple...

My younger sister turned 30 last weekend and she asked me to make some red velvet cupcakes for a mini get together she was having. I am...

Sometimes you just need a cake to have with a cup of tea for a lovely afternoon treat. This raspberry and almond crumb cake fits the bill...

This caramelised onion, goat's cheese and courgette quiche is simple, tasty and a whole load of fun to make. I absolutely hated quiche as...

Have you ever been to France and walked past a patisserie and stared longingly at one of those amazing intricate, fruity, shiny pastries...

We wanted to give the Citrillo (Citra and Amarillo) IPA another go, so we decided it was time for a re-brew. Last time we brewed this...

Finally a simple bread recipe for tasty every day bread! This bread is so simple! 5 mins of prep, leave to rise overnight and bake the...

Here we go again! Lemon layer cake with lemon buttercream icing version 2! Last time I made this cake it was tasty and light but did not...

A Mosaic and Simcoe pale ale which we aptly called our Juicy Fruit Pale ale after its incredibly rich and fruity aroma! Recipe planning...

I wanted to make some rocky road for a weekend treat. After searching online through about 20 recipes it was quite clear that they were...

We have got to the point now where we have brewed 4 IPAs so we thought it would be a fun learning experience to go through and critically...

This might be one of my favourite bakes for a while. This nectarine galette recipe was inspired by a trip to Tesco where I saw ripen at...

Our first ever stout recipe brewed to support the fight against the injustices Black people face all around the world! Story behind the...

Spanakopita is one of my favourites and I have been slowly trying to figure out how to perfect this savoury greek pie, packed full of...

I have been brewing for a while now and every brew you end up throwing away a substantial amount of grains. At first I tried putting them...

It was time to step up our game for brew #4. But deciding what to brew next was the real challenge. During lockdown we have been brewing...

I was scrolling through instagram which is basically how I waste away almost everyday, especially during lockdown with nothing to do...

After weeks of not seeing my family I finally got to see my Mum for a social distanced picnic in the park. This coronavirus life is...

Another Saturday, another brew day, and given our continued novice status, another simple SMaSH IPA was on the cards. SMaSH stands for...

It was a bank holiday weekend and I decided I needed a baking challenge. Something that would take a long time and was slightly out of my...

There are 100s of beer styles, spanning a great deal of history and brewing traditions. From Africa, Europe and the Americas, there is so...

New week! New cake! This week I wanted something fruity that was relatively cheap to make and did not require me to buy tons of...

We brewed a Citra SMaSH IPA! As fun as it was brewing beer using a kit, D and I decided we wanted to try all-grain brewing, i.e. making...

Today I needed to bake but specifically I needed to bake something new so I searched the internet far and wide until I stumbled across a...

Last year I fell in love with baking again. Not sure what triggered it! Maybe it was moving in with D and having more personal space to...

Me and D have decided to start brewing beer at home!! I am excited and looking forward to the journey that is ahead of us. I love beer...

So the UK is under coronavirus lockdown and as a scientist I can't go to the lab to do experiments so I need to fill my days somehow....