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Saturday Baking: My Crush on Nigel Slater Continues…

Saturday Baking: My Crush on Nigel Slater Continues…

As you might have noticed from last week’s delicious lemon and thyme cake, I’ve currently got a massive chef-crush on Nigel Slater*. This week I was looking to use up brown bananas *again*. I don’t know why I bother buying bananas they never get eaten! Anyway, this looked like something a little different to try(…)

Saturday Morning Baking: Fat-Free Banana Muffins

Saturday Morning Baking: Fat-Free Banana Muffins

I’ve spent the last week tidying-up Theo’s enormous birthday cake (somebody had to eat all that cake), and my arteries are groaning from all that buttercream so I’m baking healthy again today. Instead of making the same No-No Banana Loaf I tried a few weeks ago, I decided to try to make some fat-free banana(…)

Saturday Morning Baking: No-No Banana Cake (No Fat, No Sugar)

Saturday Morning Baking: No-No Banana Cake (No Fat, No Sugar)

This should actually be called Yes-Yes Banana Cake as you can eat as much of it as you like totally guilt free! I’ll be honest, the idea of a fat-free sugar-free banana cake sounded a bit grim before I tried it, but I’m on a diet at the moment and frankly, I got a bit(…)

Josephine Baker in her famous banana skirt

Josephine Baker in her famous banana skirt

The fabulous and controversial 1920s cabaret dancer Josephine Baker in her famous Banana Skirt from the Folies Bergère production “Un Vent de Folie” 1927