FROM THE KITCHEN

Cakes & biscuits

Cakes for the coffee table and biscuits for the tin.

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Dense dark-chocolate brownies finished with a smooth chocolate layer.

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Twelve tender muffins with whole blueberries and gently browned tops.

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A moist cinnamon carrot cake finished with a pale cream cheese layer.

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A creamy cream-cheese cake with a deeply browned top.

Butter cookies with crisp rims and a soft centre.

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Spiced cut-out biscuits flavoured with ginger and dark syrup.

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Crumbly Scottish-style biscuits with a small addition of rice flour.

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Soft yeast rolls with cinnamon filling and pale icing.

Small vanilla cakes topped with piped buttercream.

Small shell-shaped butter cakes made with chilled batter.

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Small almond cakes made with egg whites and nutty browned butter.

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Pale almond shells sandwiched around a simple vanilla filling.