I wasn’t supposed to have made this cake. At midnight, I lay on my bed furious with myself that yet another attempt to make genoise sponges had transformed into three dense pancakes that were both rock hard and doughy at the same time. I was baking for a charity bake sale, the first since we…
Do you have a staple recipe that sees you through the times when your imagination has left you? Is there one particular recipe in a much-loved cookery book that is stained with splashes of milk, thumbprints of chocolate and the pages stuck together with caramel? Well for me, this is one of those recipes. My…