Baked stuffed artichokes with pine nuts and lemon herb sauce are a showstopper starter that looks like an opened flower. Steamed artichokes get packed with pine nut, Parmesan, and herb stuffing between their petals before baking in wine and olive oil. A creamy lemon...
Cheese and onion filo triangles are light, flaky parcels of melted Monterey Jack and sweet sautéed onion, folded like little flags from buttered filo. Fifteen minutes of baking turns them golden and shatteringly crisp. Twelve elegant appetisers that freeze beautifully...
Deep-fried cheese-filled polenta balls are crisp, golden orbs with a molten cheese centre and a light, creamy middle. Homemade polenta is chilled, shaped around cubes of Fontina, rolled in bread crumbs, and fried until the crust shatters at a bite. Twelve balls of...
Stuffed mushrooms with blue cheese are golden, juicy bites with a creamy, tangy filling and a crunch of toasted sunflower seeds. Blue cheese and cream cheese mash together into a savoury stuffing that melts into the mushroom caps as they bake. Twelve appetisers, one...
Molasses spice cookies with orange essence bring a bright citrus note to the dark, spiced classic. Orange zest is whizzed into the palm sugar for rolling and folded through the dough, so the warm ginger and cloves meet a proper hit of orange. Twenty-four soft,...
Molasses spice cookies with dark rum glaze take the classic crackled cookie and dress it up for a party. The same ginger-cloves-pepper dough bakes soft and crinkly, then a honey and dark rum glaze drizzles over the cooled tops. Twenty-four cookies that taste like a...
Molasses spice cookies are soft, crackled cookies rolled in palm sugar with a warm hit of ginger, cloves, and black pepper. Blackstrap molasses gives them their dark colour and deep, slightly bitter sweetness. They bake up puffy and crinkled — the cookie that makes...
Lime sugar cookies are the zesty cousin of the classic sugar cookie — crisp-edged, tender-centred, and rolled in fragrant lime sugar. Fresh grated lime zest perfumes both the dough and the crackled coating for a proper citrus hit. Twenty-four cookies that taste like...
Lemon sugar cookies are bright, tender cookies rolled in fragrant lemon sugar for a sparkling, crackled finish. Fresh lemon zest runs through the dough and the coating, so every bite tastes properly of lemon rather than vanilla. Twenty-four sunshine-yellow cookies...
Lebkuchen are the spiced German Christmas cookie reimagined with toasted almonds, hazelnuts, and warm citrus zest. Cinnamon, cardamom, and nutmeg perfume the dough before a honey and coconut milk glaze seals each cookie in a sweet, sticky shell. Thirty fragrant...
Jam thumbprints are buttery almond cookies with a jewel of raspberry jam pressed into each centre. The dough rolls into tiny balls that bake into tender, golden rounds — forty-eight of them from a single batch. They look like the cookie tin at a bakery and take barely...
Gingered sugar cookies are crisp-edged, soft-centred cookies rolled in fragrant ginger sugar before baking. Fresh ginger whizzed with palm sugar gives them a warm, aromatic coating that crackles under the glass. Twenty-four cookies from one batch of dough that rolls...