Toast & marmalade aside, what do you have for breakfast when you’re feeling a little bit fancy? When it’s the weekend & you’ve got a little bit more time on your hands to make something special, it’s got to be pancakes! Thick ones, thin ones, rolled, stacked, drizzled or topped who doesn’t love a stack …
Pancakes, that’s what we associate with Shrove Tuesday here in the UK (affectionately referred to as ‘pancake day’). Pancakes are made from what would have been considered rich, fattening ingredients, eggs & milk, in an effort to use them up before the beginning of Lent. This Christian observation of fasting from both food & festivities …
Everything is better baked in a bundt, fact! Why? Because the tin literally takes all of the hard work out of the decorating & faffing to make your bakes look beautiful (win, win!). I won’t tell you exactly how many bundt tins I own but let’s just say that I keep Nordic Ware in business. …
It’s not often that this happens but every now & again, I do like to make something pretty. Something iced, patterned or bejewelled with a thousand sprinkles. I’m quite a lazy decorator, I usually just opt for a drizzle of something & a sprinkle of seeds, buts or petals but when the occasion calls for …
If there’s one recipe that you’d expect to find here at The Marmalade Teapot, it’d be marmalade right? Well you’d be wrong. I was actually shocked myself to discover that in nearly 4 years of blogging, I had never actually posted up my namesake recipe! Now, this is either poor blogging form on my part …
Gingerbread is synonymous with the festive season & whilst the term ‘gingerbread’ is given to a broad range of sweets, I think most of us picture a crunchy, spiced biscuit. We’ve been making gingerbread biscuits since the 15h century here in Europe, primarily made using spices, ginger & treacle. Whilst early gingerbread was made as …
Gingerbread, a word that is music to my ears & is sure to grab my full attention. The festive scent, the dense squidgy texture, the perfectly balanced spices, what’s not to love? Lebkuchen, biscuits, parkin, pepperkaker, elaborately iced houses there are endless variations of this spiced treat from all corners of the world. The term …
Everyone stir your pudding from east to west & make a Christmas wish (I think we’re all pretty much wishing for the same thing this year!). It’s the time of year for traditions & puddings, as we all know, I’m a big fan of both! There’s nothing more classic or steeped in history & tradition …
As soon as the weather get’s cold outside, that’s it, you’ll find me living my best spiced life in the pantry. From breakfast to drinks, dinner to dessert, if it isn’t filled with the warming aroma of cinnamon, mixed spice or ginger, I don’t want to know. Spices are winters answer to the fresh food …
We’re definitely entering into the ‘everything spiced’ time of year & I’m not complaining! I love the pantry & all of it’s dried fruits & spices. For me, apart from Christmas, adding cinnamon to just about everything is the only good thing about the colder months. But we’re not quite there yet, we’ve still got …
