My bread baking journey
A homemade potato rye bread with seeds. This recipe came from my early bread-baking experiments after learning to bake bread from scratch.
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Cookies for chilly evenings
Chilly evenings and a cup of hot tea are the perfect excuse to bake cookies. This batch includes my favourite flavour combination: peanut butter and jam.
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Butternut squash cupcakes
What looked like pumpkin cupcakes turned out to be butternut squash. A simple autumn bake with a little surprise inside.
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Rosemary Bread
A simple rosemary bread that I bake often. Comforting, easy, and perfect alongside almost anything. A dependable everyday loaf for any kitchen.
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Chocolate amaretto cake
A rich chocolate amaretto cake baked after a beautiful wedding weekend — the perfect excuse to keep the celebration going.
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Cherry Bakewell Tart
After tasting the original Bakewell Pudding in Bakewell itself (which is actually made with puff pastry), I came home inspired to make my own version — as a tart, of course. Almond, cherries and shortcrust pastry, just the way I like it, best enjoyed with a strong cup of coffee.
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Ramune’s freestyle apple tart
After weeks of testing cakes for cafés, a quiet baking day and a simple apple tart felt just right. Rustic, forgiving, and rooted in the kind of recipes that are shared, adapted, and made by feel rather than strict rules.
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Berry meringue tartlets: the tartlet for Easter
Small, joyfully unnecessary bakes made just because I felt like it. These berry meringue tartlets were created in Windsor, caused mild flatmate drama, and remain one of my favourite tiny desserts — perfect for Easter or any day that calls for a tartlet.
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A borrowed oven and a summer frangipane
A broken oven, a borrowed kitchen, and a spontaneous decision to bake a summer frangipane.
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My bumpy ride on learning how to bake the perfect bread…..
A bumpy ride into learning how to bake proper bread, fuelled by café daydreams, trial and error, and the belief that good bread should have a story before it’s even sliced.