Type: Sweetened

June 9, 2022

Meringue roulade with rose petals and fresh raspberries

Light, pretty, festive and special, this can pull off the trick of being either the Christmas Yule log (without the chocolate or…

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Cold rice and pandan pudding with alphonso mango and lime syrup

Pandan, the Asian vanilla, gives a mellow, slightly coconutty aroma to savoury and sweet dishes. If you don’t like it or can’t…

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Tau fu fa

I first came across this tofu dish – popular all over East Asia, where it has many variations, sweet and savoury, hot…

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Pot barley, orange and sesame pudding

This is like rice pudding with texture, for people who don’t mind using their teeth for a dessert. It is also fantastically…

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Ricotta fritters with orange and honey

You know how slightly terrifying certain grandmother figures can be? Well. I had to cook these fritters for one such person. Signora…

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Super french toast

Last year Sami and I were on a book tour in Toronto and were taken by our ‘Canadian mother; Bonnie Stern, to…

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Grilled banana bread with tahini and honeycomb

Telephone calls were put through to the next-door arches when this came together in the test kitchen: ‘stop what you are doing,…

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Halva ice cream with chocolate sauce and roasted peanuts

The flavour of halva works brilliantly in an ice cream. Make it once and you’ll go back to it over and over…

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Walnut and halva cake

I wondered, for a second, whether it was too much to have two sweet recipes using halva in one book. I then…

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