Cocoa Nib and Vanilla Bread Recipe
It’s not that often that you will catch me saying that it would be nice to have a subtle chocolate flavour in anything baked. Madness I know! With Easter coming up I wanted a chocolate hit but nothing too overpowering…
Homemade Watercress Soup Recipe
Over the years me and my brother have given our parents various names. Nicknames, not anything horrible. Some make sense. Some really don’t and I don’t know who or how they came about. My mum answers in supermarkets to ‘Spam’.…

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Working as a Food Technologist, through my blog I take my love for all things food through to my travels to discover new cultures, recipe development in my kitchen and sharing restaurant reviews.
S’mores Filled Croissants Recipe
I am so sorry. Sorry to refinement. Send my condolences to tradition. So long to etiquette. As you won’t find any in this recipe. When deciding to flavour a basic base recipe whether it be a sponge cake, cupcake, macaron or pastries, the…
Guinness Cake Recipe
In January this year, I visited Ireland for the first time with my brother. We drank some whiskey, we ate lots and we drank some Guinness. Then we drank some more. We even visited the Guinness factory to sample a…
Pate de Fruit/Fruit Pastilles Recipe
A few weeks back I made some sexy baked doughnuts with fruit purée from Funkin‘ in the glaze. Other than the obvious, lavishly using the purées alongside a huge bottle of prosecco (which let’s face it is a pretty good…
Ryan Gosling Cupcakes Recipe
Last year I bought you the Ryan Gosling Blue Valentine Cupcakes. This year I bring you cupcakes with his face on. Ryan Gosling Cupcakes. You’re welcome. I am well aware of how weird this is. But who can blame me…
Homemade Raspberry Jam Recipe
I was seeing raspberries everywhere I was looking. Even making 3 litres of Raspberry Liqueur didn’t diminish the berry mountain as much as I needed to. The freezer was still full. There was ruby berry juice everywhere. Something needed to be…
Baked Doughnuts Recipe
Back in September I got my apron on and held a bake sale at work for Macmillan Cancer Support, where I used some of Funkin‘s delicious Passion Fruit purée that I had bought on Amazon to experiment with. I ended up…
Homemade Raspberry Liqueur, Part 1 Recipe
I love working in the food industry. It’s random. One day I’m cooking in the kitchen. The next I see the products I spent months working on, finally on shop shelves. Then the next I’m back wearing a sexy hair…
Malteser and Toblerone Chocolate Cake Recipe
You’ve never seen a pack of Malteser’s vanish before your very eyes at the cinema than when you are sat next to my dad. He would manage to get through a whole bag before the film had even begun. It’s…
Christmas Beef Wellington with Black Truffles Recipe
Hope you all had a lovely Christmas off with your family and friends. I’m going to share with you a very special recipe today. It started out probably about 9 years ago. My Dad aka. Captain Oddball isn’t a fan…
Pecan Pie & Maple Syrup Baklava Recipe
Merry Christmas everyone! Hope you’ve had a wonderful couple of days with your families and friends. It’s fair to say we ate well in the FoodNerd home, having an epic Beef Wellington for our main Christmas meal instead of the…
Pecan Pie Recipe
Happy Thanksgiving!!! Even though I am a very cold girl in the UK wearing many knitted wear layers, today I am channelling a sun golden Cali babe. Wow, you can’t tell I hate winter in the UK at all, can…
Zombie Cookies Recipe
BRRRRAAAAAIIIIIINNNNNNSSSSS! Yep, it’s that time of year when everything is black and orange and I pretend I’m braver than I actually am. I’m a wuss. A total wuss who can’t deal with horror. I have overactive dreams for all the…