Weekend Bake
Marmalade is not just for toast! It's delicious in cakes, ice cream and sweet and savoury sauces. AGA Specialist Dawn Roads shares her recipe and tips for Seville orange marmalade - chunky style!
Cinnamon rolls are perfect for an afternoon treat or even for breakfast. Many thanks to AGA Demonstrator Naomi Hansell for sharing this fabulous recipe with us.
The drips are optional but are fun to try! A squeeze bottle is handy for the drips. Many thanks to AGA Demonstrator Naomi Hansell for this wonderful recipe.
One for the chocoholics, these Chocolate and Pear Brownies are a sublime treat and perfect with a cup of tea. Thanks to AGA Rangemaster Group Home Economist Alexandra Dibble for this lovely recipe.
This is a super cake for making use of the ends of packets of dried fruits and nuts. Based on the traditional tea loaf, the fruits are soaked in hot tea or fruit juice, the fruits plump up after overnight soaking. The loaf cake does not contain any fat and only uses one egg. It keeps well and can be frozen! Recipe by AGA Specialist Dawn Roads.
Delicious served sliced and spread with a local cream cheese. If you don't have buttermilk, simply add a tablespoon of lemon juice or vinegar to the milk. Recipe courtesy of AGA Specialist Dawn Roads.
Use ripe bananas for the best flavour – it doesn't matter if they are black on the outside! Recipe from AGA Demonstrator Dawn Roads.
Originally made with ground almonds this version uses popular pistachio nuts for the marzipan. Start the preparation a day before baking. Recipe by AGA Specialist Dawn Roads.
These have become a firm favourite for Easter and are so easy to make with young children. Get them to decorate the chocolate nests with mini Easter eggs, fluffy chickens or edible sugar bunnies. Recipe by AGA Specialist Dawn Roads.
These fruity biscuits were traditionally baked and eaten around Easter. The citrus of the mixed peel is said to represent the suffering of Christ on the cross. The addition of mixed spice is favoured in the West Country. Recipe produced by AGA Specialist Dawn Roads.
Although it seems hot cross buns are available all year round they are traditionally served on Good Friday. Sharing a hot cross bun with another is supposed to ensure friendship throughout the coming year. Recipe courtesy of AGA Specialist Dawn Roads.
These Jewelled Christmas Tree Biscuits make the perfect decoration to hang on your Christmas tree.
Ideal for making star or window pane biscuits, for wrapping prettily with a gift or just with a cup of tea.
A pretty winter cake, uses ground nuts as well as flour and a cream cheese frosting to make it lighter and easier on the icing than traditional cakes.
This is a great recipe for small kitchen helpers.
Fudgy, moussey and rich. What’s not to love? A perfect cake to serve as a gluten-free treat, that’s so delicious everyone will want some. Serve with a dollop of crème fraîche (a drizzle of salted caramel sauce is rather lovely too). This recipe is inspired by the chocolate nemesis cake served in the River Café.
Delicately flavoured and deliciously fluffy, this Classic Rosewater Victoria Sponge is a real showstopper. Recipe courtesy of our friends at Clarence Court Eggs.
A light, lemony and luscious spring sweet, the classic tarte au citron.
This Chocolate, Banana and Cardamom Brownie Traybake is the best way to use up over-ripe bananas.
A firm favourite with chocoholics, these Triple Chocolate Muffins make a wonderful accompaniment to an afternoon cup of tea.
This is one of the most traditional street food delicacies in Greece, originally found on the streets of Constantinople, now Istanbul, as far back as the Byzantine era. I have added my own personal kick to the recipe, which is Mastic, from the island of Chios.
'Lamingtons have been my favourite treat for as long as I can remember. This is the most straight-forward recipe, variations include layering the sponge with jam and cream, or even a lemon curd, before dipping in the chocolate and coconut.' Samantha Harvey, Kitchen Manager at the Divertimenti Cookery School. Recipe courtesy of the Divertimenti Cookbook (by Camilla Schneideman, Weidenfeld & Nichoson 2007)
One of the first treats children in Sweden learn to cook, Kladdkaka is a gooey chocolate cake that is as firm as an American brownie due to its sugar content on the outside, but runny and liquid in the middle.
Red Velvet Cake hails originally from the Southern States. While nowadays food colouring is added to enhance the colour, the original namesake came about through the reaction caused by the bicarbonate of soda and vinegar that brought out the natural reddish tones of unrefined coca powder.
Safra, also called Sefra, is an aromatic semolina dessert from the once thriving Jewish Community of Tripoli, Libya. Safra is rich in flavour with a honey and orange glazing, giving the almond and sesame seed topping a nice shine. Cut into diamond shapes, it is great served with tea or coffee. Enjoy!
A memorable Christmas yeast bread with aromatic cardamom and colourful dried fruit filling. It makes a lovely centre piece for the festive table.
Shortbread is traditionally given as a Christmas treat. This recipe is very festive with its red and green ingredients and makes for a delightful gift popped into a food safe cellophane bag, tied with a red ribbon. Try drizzling with melted chocolate for a change.
