Gingerbread men are always a festive treat, for the tree and tummy alike, but why not mix things up this Christmas with stars, trees – or even a dinosaur? Forget glittery aubergines and hand-tied ...

04:00, Sun, Oct 20, 2024 Updated: 17:03, Thu, Dec 19, 2024 Ginger is one of the most popular spices of the season, along with cinnamon and warming mixed spice. The fiery flavour is ideal for adding ...

The new season of the Great British Bake Off is well and truly underway, as the remaining budding bakers return to the tent to take on three more challenges. For the showstopper, the bakers will be ...

Store biscuits and cakes separately: biscuits stored in the same container as sponge cakes will turn soggy. Homemade biscuits will usually keep for up to two weeks. Unbaked dough can be frozen for up ...

Pockets of spicy crystallized ginger and sweet almonds are a surprising addition to this biscuit topping. 1. Preheat oven to 400°F. Stir together the blackberries, sugar, almond extract, salt, flour, ...

Gingerbread is one of the most enduring images of the Christmas season, made mainly into cookies and biscuits that one either enjoys as they are or used to make a gingerbread house. Gingerbread dough ...

Samantha Seneviratne's cookbook "The New Sugar & Spice" features elegant, homey desserts inspired by her Sri Lankan background and family life. Her spice-centric recipes, she writes, aim to prove that ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Do you remember when food manufacturers used to run promotional competitions on their packets? This sort of thing: ...

Gingerbread is a great thing to make at Christmas, these simple gingerbread biscuits look impressive hanging from the tree or given as gifts to family and friends. Each serving provides 107 kcal, 1g ...

1 Place the muscovado sugar, golden syrup, butter, orange zest and juice into a medium size saucepan. Heat gradually at first until all the sugar is dissolved, then increase the heat and bring the ...