Category: Winter

• Breadstick stars

  

  Christmas breadstick stars – based on my grissini recipe and made into cute festive star shapes

  Ink Sugar Spice

  December 17, 2021

  Baking, Bread, Christmas, Festive, Food, Italian, Winter

  Bread, bread sticks, Grissini, hemp seeds, Parmesan, poppy seeds, seeds, stars

• Mini panettone

  

  Gorgeous chocolate and pistachio mini panettone (panettoncini) recipe. Full of festive flavours and surprisingly easy to make.

  Ink Sugar Spice

  December 5, 2021

  Baking, Christmas, Festive, Food, Italian, Winter

  chocolate, Christmas baking, Italian cakes, panettoncini, panettone, pistachios, traditional

• Drying hydrangeas

  

  It’s so easy to dry hydrangea flower heads. They’re a beautiful, long lasting addition to home decorations.

  Ink Sugar Spice

  November 24, 2021

  Autumn, Crafts, Festive, gardening, Techniques, Winter

  dried flowers, floristry, flowers, hydrangeas

• Cinnamon buns

  

  Cinnamon buns, with glaze cherries and a syrup and marmalade glaze

  Ink Sugar Spice

  November 18, 2020

  Autumn, Baking, Bread, Christmas, Dessert, Festive, Food, Patisserie, Winter

  Breakfast, Chelsea buns, cinnamon, cinnamon buns, enriched dough, pecans, sticky buns

• Christmas cookie swap: festive caraway and cinnamon biscuit recipe

  

  Warmly spiced Christmas biscuits, ideal for gifting and sharing. Flavoured with four spices, vanilla, orange zest and using black treacle and olive oil

  Ink Sugar Spice

  December 16, 2019

  Baking, Biscuits, Christmas, Festive, Food, Winter

  Biscuits, cookie swap, cookies, cookieswap2019, edible gifts, Festive, gifting, juls kitchen, julskitchen, mail, post, recipe, swap

• Thai flavours parsnip soup

  

  A warming, gently spicy thick vegetarian soup brimming with Thai flavours

  Ink Sugar Spice

  January 23, 2019

  All seasons, Cuisines, Food, Herbs, Lunch, Main meals, Soups, Vegetarian, Winter

  chillies, coconut, featured, lime, parsnips, shallots, Thai, Thailand, turmeric

• Stencilled beer cob

  

  Stencilled cob loaf – a recipe for a beer bread cob loaf, plus how to stencil bread and a free medieval sun face stencil to create a gorgeous loaf

  Ink Sugar Spice

  January 13, 2019

  All seasons, Baking, Bread, Bread information, British, Crafts, Food, Food skills, Techniques, Winter

  beer, beer bread, Bread, bread art, bread slashing, download, featured, PDF, reindeer, stencil, stencil making, stencilled

• Sticky crumble topped gingerbread

  

  Searching for a gingerbread recipe can be a bit confusing – for a start gingerbread can be a rich loaf cake, a pain d’epices, or it can be a crisp biscuit for gingerbread houses or little iced biscuits (see my own recipe for Gingerbread foxes). This is neither! Inspired in part by Grassmere gingerbread (a […]

  Ink Sugar Spice

  December 10, 2018

  All seasons, Baking, Biscuits, British, Christmas, Festive, Food, Winter

  Biscuits, Christmas, cinnamon, crumble, edible gifts, gifts, ginger, gingerbread, Grassmere, Lake District, specialities

• Savoury brioche

  

  Try these beautiful, fluffy savoury brioche batch rolls with a caramelised onion and mature cheddar filling

  Ink Sugar Spice

  November 4, 2018

  Autumn, Baking, Bread, Food, French, Herbs, Picnic, Winter

  Bread, brioche, enriched bread, featured, real bread