Ultimate Chocolate Brownies
There’s something magical about brownies, that moment the kitchen fills with the smell of melting chocolate and you know you’re in for a proper delight. Whether you love them soft and gooey in the middle, with a fudgy chew, or baked a little longer for a cake-like crumb, brownies never disappoint.
This recipe is the gooey kind but keep them in the oven for ... Read more
Fougasse
Fougasse hails from the south of France, where it’s baked into beautiful leaf shapes and served warm alongside meals often with a good glug of olive oil and a glass of wine (or two). Traditionally Fougasse was used by bakers to test their oven’s heat (baking a small amount of dough before baking larger breads), fougasse has now grown into a rustic leaf shaped favourite ... Read more
Homemade Nacho Chips Using Nixtamalised Maize Flour or Masa Harina
If you've made tortillas and have any leftover, you can easily turn them into irresistibly crunchy nacho chips that taste leagues better than anything you'll find off the shelf.
Made with masa harina, these homemade nachos have the perfect crunch and a depth of flavour shop-bought chips can’t match.
I feel I ought to ... Read more
Matthews Cotswold flour development baker Sophie has shared this recipe for Rustic Olive Rolls with us using the Matthews Cotswold Pizza Flour.
"The Matthews Cotswold Pizza Flour is a much more versatile flour than you might realise – it’s obviously great for making delicious pizza bases, but it can also be used for a multitude of other recipes. As a baker, it’s one of my ... Read more
Tear & share brioche with a pesto and cheesy filling
Having a soft and sumptuous, comforting and tasty brioche that is stuffed with cheese and pesto is a marvellous thing, but to share it is even better.
This is a great way to use up any odd bits of cheese that are knocking about in the fridge. This recipe is with pesto but you could just as easily use tapenade, semi dried tomatoes, Marmite ... Read more
Spelt, Carrot & Ginger Mini Loaves for Easter are dairy-free, and a great way of getting the family active helping you bake. The carrots are peeled, chopped, boiled, and pureed and this gives the cake texture a very seductive softness. Baked in our mini loaf tins they’re perfect as a snack or for a lunchbox treat.
Makes 6-8 mini loaf tin cakes.
Puree the cooked carrot and water until very ... Read more
Recipe by BakeryBits customer Fred Oliver, using our Foricher T45 flour:
Soft dough with pesto, garlic, sun-dried tomatoes, and Gruyère. Thanks to Kitty Tait of The Orange Bakery for the dough proportions.
Makes 10Method
1. Warm the milk. I use 20 seconds in a microwave.
2. Place all the dough ingredients except the butter into a mixer fitted with a dough hook and mix until it forms a ... Read more
A flavour-packed sandwich bread which uses a mix of some of BakeryBits top flours. By combining flours milled from different grains you get all the qualities of each flour included in the bread, from the easy-slicing character from roller-milled strong white flour through to great flavour and omega-3 oils from the wholemeal wheat and rye.Makes one large 1kg loaf, to fit our Traditional 3lb Loaf ... Read more
Get yourself a decent stainless steel dough cutter and make these very easy no-knead Hand-Cut Cornmeal & Olive Oil Rolls. Great flavour and crust but the star is really Mulino Marino’s extra coarse cornmeal which adds these very visible flecks of golden corn through the door, and on top too if you like.
You can either make the dough in one go, will take about 3-4 hours, or leave the ... Read more
A slab of golden bread dough, full of flavour, topped with an outrageously thick layer of meltingly soft onions, criss-crossed with anchovy fillets and olives. Now I’ve called it “classic” but let’s not get started on what that actually is. Some French cooks like the onions gently caramelised, some want them utterly blonde; some want the flavour kept pure and simple while ... Read more
