Apple crumble was a weekly staple at home, be it with blackberries or apple and blackberries, but mainly apples!  So tasty and the addition of fruit to a sweet dish is always a good idea.  From personal experience, the crumble was always the most popular component, even when a hotel I worked in tried to make it look posh on a dinner plate.  I think the customer would have preferred a plate of just crumble and custard.  Now there’s an idea – I am a huge fan of oats in crumble.

Credit and permission to share: Kevin. Too soon for a banana bread recipe? Banana bread used to fly off the shelf when I was a catering manager (probably because I never made it), it was made by a lady I recruited from a well established café in Sunderland.  My word she could bake and my word you probably just logged off to look for Delia's banana bread.   Still here? This recipe is my own, I spent hours, at least one, trying out the fastest banana bread recipe I could find

Credit and permission to share: Ferrero. We are very pleased to bring you this submission after waiting flipping ages for a decent submission. Every recipe site needs a chocolate dish, but interestingly chocolate recipes did not tend to come up on our top 50 search.  But we know how to fix that…. For us, pancakes, or crêpes as they would later be called (blame catering college or the Ferrero company :-) ), always came with fresh lemon and golden syrup.  Nutella, was never to

Credit and permission to share: Flora Food Group. We are very pleased to bring you this submission after eating a lot of cake and we...

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Credit and permission to share: Kevin. I have been making this for years, tried and tested, you will never beat your own homemade pudding and it's simple to make. It is also a great pudding for Easter if you can keep one or just make more :-): Happy Christmas! Now stir it up: 375g Vostizza currants 500g Dark muscovado sugar 330ml Gold Label barley wine 330ml Mackeson stout 250g White breadcrumbs 250g