Italian lessons on a Monday morning have turned out to be great fun and because our brilliant teacher wields the hand of a circus master exceedingly firmly over our attempts to break free into flights of fancy and idle chatter, we do seem to be learning some Italian. Homework topics are inspired. Quite often someone […]

From a recipe on the BBC Good Food website, but using dried cherries instead of glacé cherries which are less sweet and, I think, work better with chocolate. 200 g unsalted butter, at room temperature 85 g light muscovado sugar 85 g golden caster sugar 1 egg 225 g self-raising flour 50g plain chocolate, 50-70% […]