A Simple and Old Fashioned Apple and Carrot Cake Recipe with sweet autumnal flavours of apple and carrot make it perfectly moist, aromatic and flavourful. It always makes a brief appearance in my kitchen as it disappears faster than it actually takes to make it. What I love about this cake, is that it keeps…
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Aromatic Zucchini Bread | a superbly moist cake
Deliciously moist and scented this Spiced Zucchini bread is a highly-flavoured loaf with a beautiful blend of aromatic spices – perfectly balanced and perfectly blended. If you saw zucchini as the primary ingredient to this cake and immediately thought, “ how strange, zucchini in a cake… I’ll move on ” – brace yourself zucchini is…
Quick mix, Olive Oil and Spelt Banana Bread
A simple and perfectly moist banana bread recipe with a wonderful texture, colour and packed with flavour. This bread is a perfect change to the cafe style banana breads that have a high quantity of refined sugars and flours. Made with olive oil, spelt and the right combination of spices it is a delicious source…
Banana and Honey Cupcakes
Easy to make, wholesome banana and Honey Cupcakes. Olive oil is a perfect substitute for butter. Simply warm it before you use and stir through. Incorporating olive oil guarantees a moist, light and fluffy cake without the hassle of worrying how much to beat it. Naturally sweetened with just the right amount of honey, and…
Greek Apricot, Almond Olive Oil Cake (τούρτα με βερίκοκα και ελαιόλαδο )
Olive oil is commonly used in Greek Cuisine even for baking cakes, sweets and pastries. The olive oil adds lightness to the cake, and the apricot adds a welcome tangy tartness to the subtle savoury taste of the olive oil. In fact, whilst living in Greece, I don’t recall butter ever being kept in the…
