Black & White Pinwheel Biscuits.

Black & White Pinwheel Biscuits.

Lee Majhen-Todd

A pinwheel biscuit is a beautiful thing to behold!

 It’s the contrast of the dark and the light, of the vanilla and the chocolate layers together, wrapped around itself making a pretty wheel of biscuit.

 Not too sweet, this biscuit is the perfect thing to sit on a plate when visitors come knocking.

Chocolate & Salted Caramel Self Saucing Pudding

Chocolate & Salted Caramel Self Saucing Pudding

Lee Majhen-Todd

Chocolate & Salted Caramel Self Saucing Pudding recipe . A warm dessert of chocolate with a decadent sauce of salted caramel and chocolate, and with no more effort than it takes to boil a kettle.

With the use of St Helens Farm butter and milk to add extra indulgence to this pudding, it’s easy to see why this is a favourite!

Rolled Lamb Breast with Meat Sauce

Rolled Lamb Breast with Meat Sauce

Lee Majhen-Todd

Lamb is such a great meat, but I do find some of the more popular cuts are expensive.

 Rolled lamb breast is overlooked a lot by lamb lovers, and I think I have a reason for this.

 Well, let’s be honest about it, it’s not he most photogenic of meats when cooked, but if you’ve not sank your teeth into this, it’s well worth switching the oven on.

Chicken, Leek & Yellow Pepper Tart

Chicken, Leek & Yellow Pepper Tart

Lee Majhen-Todd

Chicken, Leek & Yellow Pepper Tart, a recipe I make for a light lunch, when friends come over for an afternoon of chats or as part of an afternoon alone when I just want to get my book out and munch on something comfortable and full of flavour.

You know I love chicken, so more often than not there’ll be some part of a chicken in my fridge, and this is another way I get to use every bit of the leftovers.

Chocolate Dipped Green Tea Biscuits

Chocolate Dipped Green Tea Biscuits

Lee Majhen-Todd

Chocolate Dipped Green Tea Biscuits

Tea isn’t just for drinking, its great as an infusion and used in cooking too!

My favourite tea is green tea, and my everyday preference for a hot tipple, is Clipper Organic Green Tea, loving the subtle flavour – not too strong for an everyday tipple, so because I like the flavour to be a little restrained in these biscuits, this is what I normally use in the batter.

Pink Prosecco & Pistachio Loaf Cake with Pink Prosecco Icing.

Pink Prosecco & Pistachio Loaf Cake with Pink Prosecco Icing.

Lee Majhen-Todd

Sometimes there isn’t enough time in the day to spend hours making and decorating a cake, but even when the days a rush, there’s always time to make this Pink Prosecco & Pistachio Loaf Cake with Pink Prosecco Icing. This recipe is easy to bake, moist to eat and satisfying enough to make everyone happy. Perfect for any celebration, mothers day or birthday and easy enough for even the children to get involved.

Pistachio & Lemon Financiers

Pistachio & Lemon Financiers

Lee Majhen-Todd

Pistachio & Lemon Financiers

I’ve made my little financier cakes using pistachios ground up to a nut flour and love the flavour and texture they give.

 There’s something about the pale green colour of pistachios that makes me smile. Using them in cakes and as a substitute for other nuts when cooking adds something quite special.

Avocado & Fresh Tomato Salsa

Avocado & Fresh Tomato Salsa

Lee Majhen-Todd

Avocado & Fresh Tomato Salsa Recipe.

Fresh salsa is a joy to eat and so easy to put together that it seems silly to buy it if I’ve the ingredients to hand, and the ingredients are so easy to get hold of, so why not?!

 The addition of the avocado in this salsa gives it a creamy edge, the freshness is brought by the fresh lime juice and zest, and of the tomatoes, of course add body and make the salsa have a juicy and thirst-quenching mouth feel.

Tinned Mince, Potato & Carrot Pasty

Tinned Mince, Potato & Carrot Pasty

Lee Majhen-Todd

Tinned Mince, Potato & Carrot Pasty recipe . Economical, budget cooking.

Making these with tinned mince and vegetables means most of the work is already done, leaving just the pastry and assembly, perfect for making ahead and freezing.

Lime Melting Moments with Fresh Lime Buttercream

Lime Melting Moments with Fresh Lime Buttercream

Lee Majhen-Todd

A recipe for Lime Melting Moments with Fresh Lime ButtercreamFinding a biscuit recipe that’s both creamy and firm is a dream and that’s what the custard powder in the recipe does, while keeping the biscuits crumbly enough to melt in my mouth. Hence the name, melting moments!

 Lime is a particular flavour favourite of mine, a change up from lemon and a little fresher and zinger rather than zesty flavour.

Pink Grapefruit and Whisky Caramel Tart

Pink Grapefruit and Whisky Caramel Tart

Lee Majhen-Todd

This recipe for Pink Grapefruit and Whisky Caramel Tart is the perfect combination of creamy custard, tart sweet pink grapefruit wrapped in all butter pastry.

There’s something about pink grapefruit that is so pretty, it has such an appealing hue that even if not a fan, its somehow difficult to ignore.

Salted Caramel Shortbread Squares with Chocolate Drizzle

Salted Caramel Shortbread Squares with Chocolate Drizzle

Lee Majhen-Todd

Salted Caramel Shortbread Squares with Chocolate Drizzle recipe.  Adding a layer of slightly salted caramel in the centre of the shortbread is a real treat to eat and incredibly easy to make.

 For the salted caramel, I just add a good pinch of sea salt flakes to the caramel while it’s still very hot and runny, but as always in my recipes, how much of a salt kick is up to you.

Orange, Lemon Basil Shortbread Biscuits with Dark Chocolate & Raspberry Jam Filling.

Orange, Lemon Basil Shortbread Biscuits with Dark Chocolate & Raspberry Jam Filling.

Lee Majhen-Todd

Orange, Lemon Basil Shortbread Biscuits with Dark Chocolate & Raspberry Jam Filling. It’s always nice to have a few biscuit recipes that can be pulled out to impress when guests arrive, and if those recipes have ingredients that ‘shouldn’t’ go together, but taste amazing, even better.

This is one of those recipes!

Mixing citrus zests and fresh basil may sound a little unusual, but when baked in a not too sweet short bread, the flavours become one delicious and very moreish biscuit.

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