Guests at Ace Hotel can order April Bloomfield's pancakes in their rooms or at her restaurant, The Breslin. While the pancakes are delicious on their own, they're exquisite with the soft ricotta ...

1 Preheat your oven to 180 degrees Celsius fan setting. Grease a 20cm loose base cake tin (or springform tin) and line the base with parchment paper. Dust the inside walls of the tin with caster sugar ...

This dense, syrup-soaked cake is a triple orange threat, full of zest, juice and whole slices of candied orange. For the cake: Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Butter a 9- to 10-inch springform pan and ...

Desserts and sweetmeats soaked in syrup seem to be globally popular. The attraction of a sweet, sticky syrup extends from Indian gulab jamun to Chinese sugar ears, via baklava and the semolina cakes ...

In a small pan, bring the water, juice and sugar to a boil, stirring occasionally until the sugar is dissolved. Remove the pan from the heat and add the lavender. Steep the lavender for 5 minutes.

We're giving classic mimosas a twist by swapping out the traditional orange juice with splashes of homemade orange syrup and orange liqueur. The orange syrup can be made up to several weeks in advance ...

Two good things to know about this cake - compared to a regular butter cake it has quite a coarse-textured, open crumb but it needs this to absorb the syrup; and secondly, served warm it makes a ...

1. Prepare the Syrup: Peel the zest from the orange in long strips and julienne. In a saucepan of boiling water, blanch the zest for 30 seconds. Drain and repeat. In the saucepan, simmer the orange ...

Grease a 21cm baba pan. Cream butter, rind and sugar in a small bowl with an electric mixer until light and fluffy. Beat in eggs (one at a time) until just combined (mixture will look curdled).