All Blog Posts — Easter

This Baked Apples Stuffed With Honey-Spiced Crumbs dish can be whipped up easily with a few simple, delicious ingredients.  Our Honey Bunnies and Honey Bear biscuits add a depth of flavour to both sweet and savoury dishes, so you may want to keep a couple of packets handy in your pantry! Ingredients 6 apples 6 Phillippa’s Honey Bunnies or Honey Bears Biscuits 65g butter 40g caster sugar Method Slice 1cm off the top of each apple. Using a corer, remove the core leaving the base intact, about 1 cm. Place apples in a buttered baking dish. Press 1 tsp butter into each apple cavity...

Devilled Eggs are easy to make and add a sophisticated, old school touch to any menu. Here are a couple of ways to make them - with a creamy dill stuffing and sprinkled with pickled red onions or caviar. Enjoy one or the other, or serve both and impress your guests! Ingredients  8 large eggs-hard boiled 1 large Tbsp chopped fresh dill* 100g crème fraiche (or sour cream) Salt and pepper 2 Tbsp finely diced red onion 1-2 Tbsp wine vinegar (white wine or champagne vinegar) Nigella seeds, optional *mustard powder, curry powder or other soft herbs (chives, chervil, parsley)...

It may seem counter-intuitive to make an ice-cream sandwiches with toasted Hot Cross Buns, but the caramelised crisp butter and sugar surface of the bun contrast so well with the ice-cream. The delight on little faces with just the mere mention of this concoction is worth it! Ingredients 1kg vanilla ice-cream 6 Hot Cross Buns Orange Butter Cream: 60g butter 1 tbsp sugar ½ tsp grated orange zest Method First press the vanilla ice-cream onto a tray about one centimetre thick and freeze overnight or until firm. Make an Orange Butter Cream by mixing the butter with the sugar and orange zest. Split...

Hot Cross Bun French Toast is the perfect Easter breakfast for those who love French Toast and Hot Cross Buns! Here's an easy recipe from Phillippa that you're sure to enjoy. Ingredients 3 eggs 2 Tbsp caster sugar 280ml milk 4 Hot Cross Buns, each cut into 5 slices Pinch saffron (about ½ tsp), soaked for a few minutes in 1 Tbsp boiling water  Finely zested ½ lemon 60g butter for cooking Extra caster sugar to serve Ice cream to serve (1 teaspoon vanilla essence and 1 tsp orange zest, can replace saffron and lemon) Method In a large bowl make the...