Diana Henry is the Telegraph’s much-loved cookery writer. She shares recipes each week, for everything from speedy family dinners to special menus that friends will remember for months. She is also a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4, and her journalism and recipe books, including Simple and How to Eat a Peach, are multi-award-winning. A mother of two sons, Diana can satisfy even the fussiest of eaters. Source link
Lamb-shaped cakes are an Easter tradition, with a long history in Central European countries like Germany and Poland. Charra Jarosz hide caption toggle caption Charra Jarosz As Easter approaches, people around the country will be dyeing eggs, preparing baskets, attending Easter Vigils… and baking lamb cakes. These aren’t cakes made of lambs, nor standard sweet cakes iced with pictures of lambs. Rather, the cake itself is baked in the shape of a lamb (usually a nestled lamb with folded legs), and topped with a sprinkling of powdered sugar, or swags of buttercream piped to look like wool. These confections have a long history in Central Europe, from the German osterlamm, to the Polish baranek wielkanocny, to the Alsatian lammele. And they also have their fans in America. Lamb-shaped molds date back centuries When early Christians connected Jesus’ death on Good Friday with the tradition of the sacrificial Passover Lamb, lambs became a symbol of Easter. Add in a return to buttery, eggy pastries after Lent, and you’ve got a tradition. It’s not clear exactly when …
I love Mexican chillies for the subtle flavour they give to cooking. Take the ancho, with its sweet, earthy notes of chocolate and plum. That adds immense depth to dishes traditional and avant garde alike, and is now readily available online and in shops. In today’s one-pot, which is a near-perfect way to cook a whole chicken, the ancho adds character to a classic sofrito, while in the pudding the savoury notes and touch of heat complement the dark caramel, helping to create a banana cake that is anything but bland. If you can’t find ancho, try any other medium-heat chilli flake in its place (nora, aleppo), or simply leave it out. The results will be delicious either way. Chicken pot-au-feu with wild garlic pesto Wild garlic tends to be very strong at the start of the season, so I prefer to cut it with parsley; and if you can’t find wild garlic, go all-out parsley with a peeled garlic clove. This pesto is also magic on a jacket spud, pasta or a toasted cheese …
This is a cake for the long, ambling tail-end of an Easter lunch. It’s gently scented with orange and vanilla, lightened by ricotta, and studded with rum-soaked raisins that bring bursts of sweetness to each slice. Ideally, they’d be soaked overnight to plump them into something luscious, but if time gets away from you, take a shortcut: put the raisins and rum in a microwave-safe bowl, zap for 20–30 seconds, then leave to cool and absorb. The chocolate glaze is optional; on days when you want something simpler (or lighter), a generous sifting of icing sugar is all this cake needs. Serve with a small glass of grappa or something similarly warming for a quietly perfect way to bring a feast to a close. Ricotta, rum and raisin cake Prep 10 minSoak overnightCook 1 hr, plus coolingServes 8-10 130g raisins80ml dark rum125g room-temperature unsalted butter, plus 10g extra, softened, for brushing220g plain flour, plus extra for dusting160g caster sugarFinely grated zest of 1 large orangeSeeds from ½ vanilla pod200g smooth ricotta3 large eggs, at room …
I’ve made lots of lemon cakes over the years – simple ones baked in a loaf tin, round ones filled with lemon curd and covered in buttercream icing. I wanted to make one that was intensely lemony, a bit more grown-up than most. This is it. You don’t have to ice this cake – the icing does make it sweeter. If you prefer a more mouth-puckering lemon experience, dust the top with icing sugar before serving it and leave it at that. Source link
When I picture most coffee cakes, they seem to materialize in the same three places, as predictably as a non-player character in an open-world video game: office break rooms, church basements and conference center breakfast buffets. They arrive pre-sliced, pre-dulled, pre-forgiven. Beige. Bland. Dry. They are polite background noise — the culinary equivalent of a cubicle in a Schaumburg office park. Coffee cake, as a category, has a reputation problem. It is expected to be fine. Serviceable. Something you accept with a paper napkin under fluorescent lighting and a murmur of gratitude. It fills space. It does not demand attention. I have a soft spot for the cinnamon coffee cake from Starbucks — or rather, for what I remember it being like when I was 12. There was a year in middle school when I was sick often enough that the doctor’s office felt a bit like a second address. Eventually we learned I had an immune condition; I also had mono, which felt cosmically unfair considering I had not yet been kissed and suspected …
Ground pistachios star in the sponge as well as in the creamy filling, which also features candied peel and chunks of chocolate Source link
Diana Henry is the Telegraph’s much-loved cookery writer. She shares recipes each week, for everything from speedy family dinners to special menus that friends will remember for months. She is also a regular broadcaster on BBC Radio 4, and her journalism and recipe books, including Simple and How to Eat a Peach, are multi-award-winning. A mother of two sons, Diana can satisfy even the fussiest of eaters. Source link
A moist, gluten-free cake that delivers vibrant citrus flavours Source link
A jury sided with rapper Afroman, whose legal name is Joseph Foreman, in a defamation lawsuit brought by Ohio police who raided his home. USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect hide caption toggle caption USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect Afroman was just trying to turn lemons into “Lemon Pound Cake” when he started making music videos and social media posts mocking the law enforcement officers who conducted a heavy-handed raid on his Ohio home. Home surveillance video of the August 2022 raid shows half a dozen gun-wielding law-enforcement officers from the Adams County Sheriff’s Office deputies kicking down his door, combing through his CD collection, going through his suit pockets, flipping through a wad of cash and, in one case, briefly getting distracted by a cake dish on the kitchen counter. The search, on suspicion of drug trafficking and kidnapping, didn’t yield any evidence or charges against the rapper, whose legal name is Joseph Foreman. But he says officers broke his gate and security surveillance wiring, took $400 in cash and frightened his family. …
