Sweet little egg-foam sponge cakes with meringue topping. Very light and delicate! Comes together quickly and is super easy to eat. This dessert seems familiar and modern, perhaps a homespun version of fancy Japanese patisserie, but it’s a centuries-old treat: muskot are referenced in a Thai court poem from the first quarter of the 19th … Continue reading
Gingerbread made from oatmeal, treacle, golden syrup, and dark brown sugar, spiced with ground ginger and nutmeg. I like the idea of bonfire night, and enjoy thinking of all manner of things to be eaten out of hand before this extremely pagan ritual, but I haven’t actually been out to a see any fireworks for … Continue reading
Well, here we are. A tall cake, full of flavour and texture: there’s chocolate cake, a coconut filling that is better than a Bounty bar, salty-sweet pecan-feuilletine crunch, and mellow Ovaltine frosting. Each layer is delicious on its own but makes the most sense together. It’s a lot of work and I’m very proud of … Continue reading
This chocolate-deep, star-topped cake formed part of my New Year’s spread, the first party I’ve thrown in absolute years. The rest of the menu: Massaman curry, half of Leela’s with chicken drumsticks Khanom jeen nam ya (rice noodles + curry chicken) – this is made to be served at room temp, which helps a lot Mac & cheese, … Continue reading
Okay, so, make these. I know at this point salted caramel is a cliche foodie thing which has become more of a gourmet marketing label and not necessarily an indicator of delicious caramel, but this bakes up into a tray of something friendly, inviting, and genuinely very good. Recently I made these for a party. I was a bit nervous, … Continue reading
Hello. Hi. How are you? We in much of the U.K. are going through what my friend Maggie calls “fake bullshit summer.” It’s almost a week until autumn really begins and there are absolutely no signs of it cooling down; perhaps this is compensation for our earlier British summertime, where it was hot and sunny all at once for 5 … Continue reading
This is so fluffy and gentle. You could bed yourself down right into it. Japanese cheesecake is a treat which needs to be judged on its own merits. What they share with their European and American counterparts is a body largely comprising cream cheese, but rather than a dense baked custard, the making of them requires a good beating for fine, airy … Continue reading
The first muffin recipe on here, and for very good reason, too. I love the word and idea of muffins, all warm and friendly and tucked in. Mr. Pear once had a cat called Muffin, a deeply suitable name for a soft friend who naps in sunny spots around your home. But as to the … Continue reading
Dear me. It has come to my attention that there isn’t a banana bread recipe on my blog. I’ve got a fluffy banana cake, two iterations of banoffee pie, a rhubarb-banana jam, but not one recipe for sweet, comforting banana bread. Let me fix that by giving you a recipe for a one-bowl banana bread with spices and … Continue reading
Rich salty-sweet blondies with a light crackly crust and squidgy centre, fragrant with palm sugar and nutty brown butter. If you’re reading this, you probably understand that unlike brownies, the point of a blondie isn’t that it’s supposed to be more chocolatey that chocolate itself; its joy lies in the cookie dough-like body–warm butterscotch and vanilla, sweet and … Continue reading
The Furious Pear Pie 
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