-The KitchenMaid-

Remember when coconut oil was going to save us all? I'm not sure it's happened yet, given that the world needs saving more now than ...

There's a long weekend on the horizon and - though the weather is unlikely to be playing ball - I'm still hopeful that there will be...

I read something last week about how 'invisible prisons' - jobs, societal pressures, parenting, caring for older relatives - meant t...

Remember whoopie pies? They were going to be the new cupcakes, or the new macarons, but I don't think they ever really took off. A shame...

Last Sunday my sister-in-law turned up on my doorstep with a huge chocolate cake, a tub of Zany Zeus creme fraiche and a jar of Fix and Fogg...

Cupcakes - so 2007, right? Depends who you ask. Personally, I've made about 50 in the last month, so I think they're quite 2015 too...

When I rule the world, I'm going to introduce a law banning vanilla-flavoured perfumes and all forms of fake vanilla extract. Real vani...

This is the wedding cake that nearly wasn't. When one of my oldest and dearest friends announced she was getting married, I immedia...

It has become very fashionable for recipes to appear in the post-Easter sugar haze exhorting ways to use up excess chocolate eggs. But becau...

Long-time readers will know that I'm a traditionalist when it comes to Easter - no hot cross buns before Good Friday; no Easter eggs bef...

Are you a Good Bitch? I am. In fact, I'm one of many. I'm not telling you this to show off, but to get you to join us in a kind of...

My mother used to say that the definition of willpower was eating one salted peanut. She was wrong. At least, she was right, but I've ...

Did you give up coffee, sugar and cake on January 1? Nah, me neither. If you did, look away now. Because here comes a lush coffee cake - tha...

I'm sure there's a Chinese proverb about disaster being the mother of invention, or danger being the signpost to opportunity, or som...

Delusion is a wonderful thing. It's why dress shops have flattering mirrors, why cosmetic counters have soft lighting and why a whole in...

Do you love cake? Then I URGE you to stop whatever you're doing and make this cake. The photo isn't the best - harsh work light...

The 2014 edition of Wellington On A Plate's Bake Club  ('like a book club, but tastier') is underway and next week's challen...

I'm calling it now: I think marmalade is about to have a moment. I've reached this conclusion via a highly scientific process involv...

I stumbled upon JJ of 84th and 3rd just under a year ago. I was in Berlin, awake in the early hours of the morning, scrolling through Insta...

Forget war, forget inequality, forget child poverty and the melting of the icecaps, the thing that really gets people riled up is whether or...