The boy who bakes

Chocolate chip cookies made using sourdough discard

I am back from my US book tour and am in that place where I am very happy to be home, exhausted from all the travel, but also kind of wishing I was still on the road. Firstly, I cannot tell you how amazing it was to spend the last three weeks flying around the states and doing a whole bunch of event

I think it is fair to say that most people know the connection between Marcel Proust and the humble madeleine, a cake the author described as “short, plump little cakes…which look as though they had been been moulded in the fluted scallop of a pilgrims shell”. It was a cake that, for him, immediatel

Credit: Jesse Szewczyk Credit: Jesse SzewczykReal talk: Ive baked over 100 batches of cookies in my life. Probably more. There was a point in my life when I would bake multiple batches of cookies each week just so I could practice my technique. (To say that I take cookies seriously is an understatement.) Along the way Ive discovered a handful of recipes that stood above the rest ones that have earned a permanent spot in my rotation. At the top of that list lives my favorite chocolate chip…

I have spent the last year almost exclusively working on super simple baking and whilst that has been a nice change of pace I have missed the opportunity to play around and experiment with more complex recipes, which I oddly always find most enjoyable, maybe it’s the challenge or the sense of achiev

I have something shameful to admit. I abandoned my sourdough starter in the back of the fridge for months, forgotten and neglected. After languishing in the fridge for so long I wondered if it could have possibly survived or if could be revived. I am a firm believer that once your starter is properl

It's jam time again, and this week I have two recipes for you! Firstly, the simplest, easiest jam recipe going and secondly a fabulous brunch bake to use that in When I was little the one jam we had in the house at all times was raspberry jam, mainly because my family absolutely love a classic sher

These espresso chocolate chip cookies are incredible. Rich, buttery, and packed with espresso, they're the perfect cookie.

How could I do a series on chocolate chip cookies in 2018 and not include what has to be the most popular baking recipe of the past year! Yes today we are talking Alison Roman’s Salted Butter Chocolate Chunk Shortbread. Now, it may be a little unfair including this recipe as it doesn’t really fall i

Time for another #onetinbakes recipe? Why yes, I think it just might be. It is now officially less than a month until the book is released in the US and Canada, by which point it should also be back in stock in Australia and New Zealand. To get you all excited I wanted to share one of my favourites