Nigella Victoria Sponge is made with self-raising flour, unsalted butter, caster sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, whole milk. This British Nigella Victoria Sponge recipe creates a classic and fluffy cake that takes about 40 minutes to prepare (plus cooling time) and can serve up to 8 people.
This is very different from the richly sweet, loftily layered and aerated American original. While it is in some senses far more reminiscent of an old-fashioned, slightly rustic English teatime treat, it is, with its ginger-spiked cream cheese icing — only on top, not running through the middle as well — just right to bring to the table, in pudding guise, at the end of dinner, too. Before you chop the amber dice of crystallised ginger, rub the cubes between your fingers to remove excess sugar. Then chop them finely, though not obsessively so: you want small nuggets, not a jammy clump. And, for what it’s worth, I find it easier to crumble up the walnuts with my fingers, rather than chopping them on a board. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.
This, an adaption of Claudia Roden's magnificent orange and almond cake, is a wonderfully damp, dense and aromatic flourless cake: it tastes like one of those sponges you drench, while cooling, with syrup, only you don't have to. And it's such an accommodating kind of cake, too: it keeps well, indeed it gets better after a few days; and it is perfect either as a pudding with creme fraiche, or as a sustaining slice with a mug of tea at any time of the day. And please read the Additional Information section at the end of the recipe before proceeding. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.
Nigella carrot cake is made with fresh carrots, crunchy walnuts, warming spices, and crystallised ginger, topped with creamy cream cheese icing. This delicious Nigella Carrot Cake recipe takes about 1 hour to prepare and can serve 8-12 people.
Nigella Lawson’s Devil’s Food Cake is made with cocoa powder, muscovado sugar, butter, caster sugar, flour, baking powder, bicarbonate of soda, vanilla extract, and eggs, and covered with chocolate frosting, creating a sweet treat that takes an hour to prepare!
Nigella Semolina Pudding is a tasty treat that only needs a few simple ingredients, like milk, semolina, vanilla sugar, and ground cinnamon. It takes 20 minutes to put together and can feed 4 people.
This cake is a sort of Anglo-Italian amalgam. The flat, plain disc is reminiscent of the confections that sit geometrically arranged in patisserie windows in Italy; the sharp, syrupy sogginess borrows from the classic English teatime favourite, the lemon drizzle cake. It is a good marriage: I love Italian cooking in all respects save one — I find their cakes both too dry and too sweet. Here, though, the flavoursome grittiness of the polenta and tender rubble of ground almonds provide so much better a foil for the wholly desirable dampness than does the usual flour. But there is more to it than that. By some alchemical process, the lemon highlights the eggy butteriness of the cake, making it rich and sharp at the same time. If you were to try to imagine what lemon curd would taste like in cake form, this would be it. And please read the Additional Information section at the end of the recipe before proceeding. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.
Nigella’s Marmalade Cake is made with butter, sugars, marmalade, flour, eggs, bicarbonate of soda, baking powder, orange zest, and juice, creating a moist citrusy treat that takes an hour to prepare!
You can’t beat a pavlova recipe, especially a crisp-chewy meringue base, with nuggets of chocolate, created by Nigella Lawson. The meringue provides an enticing layer beneath the cream and crimson raspberries. From Forever Summer by Nigella Lawson (£16.99, Chatto & Windus).
No matter how much I watch Nigella Lawson, this recipe will always be my favourite one that I’ve made; her Lemon Yoghurt Pot Cake from Nigellissima is a soft delicate cake which is incredibly moist…
I haven't done a tremendous amount of fiddling with this, but I did once make it, for friends who are more chocolate-crazed than I am, by replacing 25g / 3 tablespoons of the flour with good cocoa powder (not drinking chocolate) and adding 100g / 4oz of dark chocolate, cut up into smallish chunks. And you could just as easily use the chocolate chips sold in the baking aisle of supermarkets. If you're thinking about giving this cake to children, don't worry, the alcohol doesn't pervade: you just end up with stickily, aromatically swollen fruit. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.
Nigella Victoria Sponge is made with self-raising flour, unsalted butter, caster sugar, eggs, vanilla extract, whole milk. This British Nigella Victoria Sponge recipe creates a classic and fluffy cake that takes about 40 minutes to prepare (plus cooling time) and can serve up to 8 people.
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This recipe comes from Nigella Lawson's "How to Eat" and was demonstrated on her tv program, Nigella Bites." Ground almonds take the place of flour in this recipe - made sure they are finely ground or they will taste gritty. I have not yet made this, as I am posting this in respsonse to a request. Nigella adapted this recipe from several recipes, including one by Claudia Roden. It should come out very moist and syrupy. If you like, you may also sub lemons or oranges (see variation below) and also, you may pour a powdered sugar glaze over the cooled cake if you like. Nigella recommends serving this with some creme fraiche(which I might sweeten first) on top of each serving. Prep time is about 15 minutes, plus the 2 hours of simmering the Clementines.
Nigella Lemon and Blueberry Cake recipe is made with flour, cornstarch, baking powder, baking soda, salt, butter, vegetable oil, sugar, lemon zest, eggs, milk, yogurt, lemon juice, and fresh blueberries this recipe takes 90 minutes to make and serves 12 people.
It occurred to me — while cleaning out my spice drawer, a task I soon abandoned — that it might be interesting to use cumin in place of the caraway in a traditional seed cake. It really works: the toasted cumin gives a subtle spiciness but does nothing to rupture the calm of a classic plain cake. Interestingly, caraway did used to be known as Persian cumin, and in many languages both cumin and caraway are known by the same name. Some ideas are just meant to be... For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.
Nigella carrot cake is made with fresh carrots, crunchy walnuts, warming spices, and crystallised ginger, topped with creamy cream cheese icing. This delicious Nigella Carrot Cake recipe takes about 1 hour to prepare and can serve 8-12 people.
There was a time, years ago, when this was on my table pretty much whenever I had friends over for a lazy Saturday lunch. And I love it still. It’s simple and undemanding to make, and can equally offer summer sprightliness or winter comfort, and in summer you might certainly consider scattering over basil on serving, along with the parsley. The sauce itself (rather like the eggs in a carbonara) is not actually cooked, but warmed through as it’s tossed fragrantly with the hot pasta. I find when cooking such an amount of pasta (though bear in mind that this recipe halves easily enough), it is always a good idea to put the pan on to boil quite a bit before you think you need to. Once it’s come to the boil, you can switch off, cover the pan, and know that you are almost ready to go. And finally, may I suggest that with the two egg whites you have left over, you make a batch of Forgotten Cookies within two days, if the egg whites are kept covered in the fridge... And please read the Additional Information section at the end of the recipe before proceeding. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.
On days when I want the warmth of the hearth rather than the hurly burly of the city streets I stay in and read cookery books, and this recipe comes from just the sort of book that gives most succour, Classic Home Desserts by Richard Sax. The cake itself is as richly and rewardingly sustaining: a melting, dark, flourless, chocolate base, the sort that sinks damply on cooling; the fallen centre then cloudily filled with softly whipped cream and sprinkled with cocoa powder. As Richard Sax says, "intensity, then relief, in each bite". For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.
I don't know if I ever ate Madeira cake as a child, but just the sight of this golden-yellow loaf with its long crack down the middle makes me feel satisfactorily nostalgic. This recipe, given to me by my mother-in-law Carrie, is the best of any version I've tried. It's just one of those plain cakes you think you can't see the point of, until you start slicing and eating it. Please read the Additional Information section at the end of the recipe before proceeding. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.
This is an Italian-inspired recipe that comes to me from Australia via Brazil. To explain: a Brazilian friend, and the best cook I know, Helio Fenerich made it for me, and I had to keep (rudely) asking him to carry on making it for me. Eventually, I begged him for the recipe, which he told me he’d found in Australia. The journey was certainly worthwhile: it is a complete winner; I go into auto-Parmesan-shortbread mode whenever I have friends coming for supper, as not only is it perfect with drinks, but it can be made in advance. Indeed, you can make the dough, wrap it and then leave in the fridge for up to 3 days before slicing and baking it as instructed below, although you will need to let these cheese-scented cylinders sit out on a kitchen surface just long enough to get the fridge-chill off them before slicing. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.
I wouldn't want to go bandying around the name of this recipe in Naples, but this is what I call it. If it helps, think of it as a cheese toastie, only without the bread. Whatever, it makes a fast and easy supper on days when you're too tired to think about what to cook. This gets made — pretty well makes itself — before you've even realised you're in the kitchen. Where I've suggested some sliced chorizo to adorn the top, you could as easily sprinkle in some sweetcorn or snipped ham, or just about anything you fancy and can get away with. But rest assured, there are plenty of times I've cooked this without any final addition: just egg, flour, salt, milk and cheese. This is comfort: quicktime. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.
This is the most luscious of treats: rich, to be sure, but somehow delicate at the same time. Smoked paprika and crab (a 50/50 mixture of both white and brown meat) give an almost honeyed depth to the velvety cheese sauce, which is made with nutty and sweet gruyere. The combination is just sumptuous, like a cross between a mac’n’cheese and a bisque. I stray further from tradition in that I use pasta shells rather than macaroni, and I don’t scatter more cheese on top and brown it in the oven, and indeed advise sternly against it. I find a freckling of Aleppo pepper (though you could use paprika) more than makes up for the familiar heat-scorched finish. It would be remiss of me not to let you know that if you bump up the milk in the sauce recipe to 300ml / 1¼ cups, it makes for sensational seafood nachos: warm tortilla chips in the oven, then pour the sauce over them, and top with sliced red chillies and chopped chives or whatever you please. For US cup measures, use the toggle at the top of the ingredients list.
Nigella Lawson Courgette Cake Recipe It is that time of year again, trying to think of 101 ways to use up the glut of courgettes from the garden! This cake feels healthier as it is made with courgettes! Ingredients: For the cake: 250 g courgettes (approx 2 courgettes weighed before grating) 2 large eggs 125 ml vegetable oil 150 g caster sugar 225 g self-raising flour […]
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Not all carrot cakes are created equal, especially where Nigella is concerned. This recipe, "originating from Venetian Jews, which sounds refreshingly medieval, made as it is from ground almonds, rather than flour, is enriched with eggs and olive oil and studded with rum-soaked sultanas." As she admits, "it's not much to look at'"– a golden disc about half the height of one layer of an ordinary cake – but it's incredibly moist and deliciously nutty, with a lovely citrus kick too. It's also gluten and lactose-free, for those who are sensitive to such things, but quite delicious in its own right. For a taller moister version, simply use a smaller 6-inch springform pan, cook it a little longer and the results are absolutely scrumptious. Gluten-Free Venetian Carrot Cake Serves 8-10 Recipe courtesy of Nigella Lawson Carrot cake: 3 tbsp pine nuts 2 medium carrots, about 8 oz 3 oz golden sultanas 2 1/4 fl oz rum 5 oz white granulated sugar 4 1/2 fl oz olive oil, plus extra for greasing 1 tsp vanilla extract 3 large eggs 9 oz ground almonds 1/2 tsp ground nutmeg, or to taste 1/2 lemon, finely grated zest and juice Cream Cheese Frosting: 8 oz cream cheese 3 cups icing sugar 1/2 tsp vanilla Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line the base of a 9-inch round springform cake pan* with baking parchment and grease the sides with olive oil. Toast the pine nuts by browning in a dry frying pan, then set aside. Grate the carrots in a food processor or with a coarse grater, then wrap in a clean kitchen towel and wrap them, to soak up excess liquid, then set aside. Put the golden sultanas in a small saucepan with the rum, bring to the boil, then turn down and simmer for 3 minutes. Whisk the sugar and oil until creamily and airily mixed, then add the vanilla extract and eggs and, when well whisked, fold in the ground almonds, nutmeg, grated carrots, golden sultanas with any rum that clings to them, and finally, the lemon zest and juice. Scrape the mixture into the prepared cake tin and smooth the surface with a rubber spatula. The batter will be very shallow in the tin. Sprinkle the toasted pine nuts over the cake and put it into the oven for 30–40 minutes, or until the top is risen and golden and a skewer inserted into the centre comes out sticky but more or less clean. Remove from the oven and let the cake sit in its tin on a wire rack for 10 minutes, then un-spring and leave it on the rack to cool. To make the frosting, beat the cream cheese in a standing mixer, until smooth, then add the sugar and vanilla, and mix until light and fluffy. To assemble the cake, place the carrot cake on a serving platter and spread with cream cheese frosting, and serve. * NOTE: I used a 6-inch round springform pan for a taller cake and adjusted the baking time to 70 minutes, then turned off the oven and let the cake rest inside for another 10-15 minutes, so that the centre was cooked through.
Nigella Lawson Banoffee Pie is made with digestive biscuits, unsalted butter, ripe bananas, condensed milk, heavy cream, dark chocolate. This British Nigella Lawson Banoffee Pie recipe delicious dessert takes about 7 hours to prepare and can serve up to 8 to 10 people.
Recipe for Nigella Lawson's Flourless Chocolate Orange Cake made with whole oranges, almonds, and cocoa.
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In this vegan recipe, Nigella revisits an old favourite, her lemon polenta cake, and reimagines it with plant-based ingredients and without any compromise on taste or texture.
Flourless chocolate hazelnut cake – this Italian cake originates in Piedmont, a region in North-Western Italy known for its hazelnuts. This gluten-free cake is a chocolate lovers dream desser…
Nigella Lawson Banoffee Pie is made with digestive biscuits, unsalted butter, ripe bananas, condensed milk, heavy cream, dark chocolate. This British Nigella Lawson Banoffee Pie recipe delicious dessert takes about 7 hours to prepare and can serve up to 8 to 10 people.
Nigella Lawson calls these simple chocolate biscuits ‘Granny Boyd’s biscuits’ after her editor’s granny, who gave her the recipe. The striped pattern on top is made with a fork. And, as Felicity Cloake says in her article on how to cook the perfect chocolate biscuits, ‘these biscuits are so fine-textured they actually melt on the tongue’. If you prefer cookies, we can guarantee our best ever chocolate chip cookies won’t disappoint.
An indulgent selection of puddings and cakes – from lemon pavlova to a boozy British trifle
Many, many moons ago, when I was an unfortunate-looking teenager, my dad went on a holiday to France. My envy was palpable – growing up in a run-of-the-mill Sydney suburb all one ever heard about F…
Nigella Lawson Courgette Cake recipe is a delicious cake made with grated courgettes (zucchini), sultanas (golden raisins), walnuts, ground cinnamon, and all-purpose flour. This British cake, perfect for breakfast, dessert, or as an appetizer, takes about 1 hour and 5 minutes to prepare, including baking and cooling time, and serves 8 people.
This dark, sumptuous Chocolate and Tahini Banana Bread from Cook, Eat, Repeat, is an elegant twist on the popular bake.
