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Breakfast/Brunch, Desserts, Sweet Snacks

Gravenstein Apple Turnovers

Breakfast on the go with these *handy* Gravenstein Apple Turnovers. OK, they don’t have to be Gravenstein Apples, any baking apple will do, but I went apple pickin’ recently and picked this type. Convenient breakfast if you’re headed out of the house (not that I personally do that much these days, but you know… if real life were actually real life these days). Very easy and straight forward as it uses store-bought puff pastry.
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Breakfast/Brunch, Desserts, Sweet Snacks

Chocolate Hazelnut Bundt Cake, with Red Currants

The other day, I bought this amazing green (of course) mini-bundt pan from Ten Hands Pottery on Etsy (https://www.etsy.com/shop/TenHandsPottery). It arrived late last week and the very first thing I thought was what to make — and came up with this recipe for a Hazelnut Chocolate Red Currant Bundt. It was a riff on my standard pound cake recipe, so I wasn’t sure that it would come out as planned, but it’s delicious. And it photographs well in the lovely pan.
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Breakfast/Brunch, Sweet Snacks

Strawberry Elderflower Jam and
Strawberry Vanilla Bean Jam

So every year, as always, I go Pick-Your-Own Strawberry Picking at Russell Orchards in Ipswich. This year was a little different as mask wearing and social distancing were required even on the farm, but overall it felt fairly normal and it was great to be out there. This means, of course, that I am working on this year’s strawberry treats — two varieties of jam-packed jam — Strawberry Elderflower and Strawberry Vanilla Bean. Both are delicious, unique and have a crazy level of fruit!
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