The Botanical Kitchen
Recipes, travel and the occasional rant
This cake is a lovely moist everyday cake. The kind you want to make on a Sunday and keep in the tin for a little slice to cheer you up when you get home. You’ll need 200g self raising flour 1 tsp baking powder 100g ground pistachios 100g caster sugar 2 eggs 250ml plain yoghurt […]
I got a beautiful non stick madeline tray from my babies this year and I’ve been waiting for a really authentically French recipe. I found it in Michael Paul’s Sweet Paris. The addition of cardamom is my little bit of decadence and Indian-ness. I also added brown sugar for a slightly more caramel taste. This […]
Have you ever had a little pipe dream about running your own restaurant? Or opening your own deli or tea shop? I have these dreams every day in some way or another but I know now is not the right time for me and my young family to start on this path. One day…. In […]
I love making macaroons. I did make one bad batch which put me off for a while. I got really frustrated until I retraced my steps and worked out that I had used too much liquid food colouring and disturbed the balance of liquid in this recipe. It’s really worth trying to find food colouring […]