Recipes

White gravy boat filled with orange, maple syrup and thyme glaze for Christmas ham, set on a green cloth with festive baubles.

Orange, maple syrup and thyme glaze for ham

The Christmas ham is already cooked, so you’re glazing it to add jammy sticky flavour, caramelise the fat into a toffee-like Christmas crackling, and turn the whole thing into a...

Orange, maple syrup and thyme glaze for ham

The Christmas ham is already cooked, so you’re glazing it to add jammy sticky flavour, caramelise the fat into a toffee-like Christmas crackling, and turn the whole thing into a...

Bowl of creamy brandy butter with a spoon, set on marble with festive decorations and a green cloth.

Brandy butter recipe

This is the sauce that’s traditionally served in Britain with hot Christmas pudding, mince pies or even festive berry crumbles and cobblers. Any hot pudding will do (honestly, probably any...

Brandy butter recipe

This is the sauce that’s traditionally served in Britain with hot Christmas pudding, mince pies or even festive berry crumbles and cobblers. Any hot pudding will do (honestly, probably any...

Mini pizzas topped with black olive spiders on a dark serving board.

Mini Spider Pizzas

There was a time when Halloween was for one day only, which took you by surprise, necessitating an emergency dash to Aldi for mixed lollies and the two dollar shop...

Mini Spider Pizzas

There was a time when Halloween was for one day only, which took you by surprise, necessitating an emergency dash to Aldi for mixed lollies and the two dollar shop...

Strawberries dipped in white chocolate decorated as Halloween ghost faces.

Strawberry Chocolate Ghosts

Ghostly greetings! This collection of wide-eyed, berry ghouls makes a great dessert platter for an adult get-together, or a welcome break from the lollies for a gang of sugar-crazed trick...

Strawberry Chocolate Ghosts

Ghostly greetings! This collection of wide-eyed, berry ghouls makes a great dessert platter for an adult get-together, or a welcome break from the lollies for a gang of sugar-crazed trick...

Hot dog buns styled as severed fingers with sausages and ketchup for Halloween.

Severed Finger Buns

Haunted hotcakes, these are absolutely terrifying! (Although marginally less terrifying than trying to carve a pumpkin into a Jack O’Lantern – if anyone else has attempted that? We’re two good...

Severed Finger Buns

Haunted hotcakes, these are absolutely terrifying! (Although marginally less terrifying than trying to carve a pumpkin into a Jack O’Lantern – if anyone else has attempted that? We’re two good...

Plates of fig leaf semi-freddo with grilled figs, served with syrup on a wooden table.

MKR Recipe: Fig leaf semi-freddo with grilled f...

  ‘It’s like a frozen cloud. The three notes go perfectly together,’ was Manu’s verdict on Sophie and Katherine’s MKR dessert recipe. Spanish contestant Jose declared ‘Every single thing that...

MKR Recipe: Fig leaf semi-freddo with grilled f...

  ‘It’s like a frozen cloud. The three notes go perfectly together,’ was Manu’s verdict on Sophie and Katherine’s MKR dessert recipe. Spanish contestant Jose declared ‘Every single thing that...