Raspberry gin cocktail – summer in a glass – Raspberry Gimlet. I love the combination of alcohol and lime juice. Adding raspberries, for me, creates a light and summery drink and a raspberry gimlet is the perfect combination of flavours for me when I’m looking for a light aperitif. While I enjoy raspberries, I don’t […]
Raspberry Eton Mess – Simple Summer Dessert
A Five Minute Dessert – Raspberry Eton Mess: Proper cooks would make their own meringues, but I seldom make dessert and when I do I generally want something I can put together really quickly. While homemade meringues can be wonderful, they take two to three hours to ‘cook’. Personally, I’m quite happy with the shop […]
Chocolate and Raspberry Cupcakes
Chocolate and Raspberry Cupcakes – a Virgin Bake! I don’t bake much. Having freshly baked cake in the house is just too much of a temptation for me most of the time. In fact this is my first ever attempt at making cupcakes – the whole cupcake frenzy has just passed me happily by. BUT, […]
Crunchy Raspberry Creams
Raspberry Creams with a Crunch: It is that time of year when I don’t really want to cook too much. And, the start of the soft fruit season. I particularly love raspberries, probably a throwback to childhood when we seemed to always end up with a bird in the soft fruit cage that devoured the […]