This moist, fruity cake covered with rich pastry is traditionally eaten at Hogmanay. Make it in advance so the flavours have time to mature. Equipment and preparation: you will need a 900g/2lb loaf tin.
This moist, fruity cake covered with rich pastry is traditionally eaten at Hogmanay. Make it in advance so the flavours have time to mature. Equipment and preparation: you will need a 900g/2lb loaf tin.
These mini skewers of spiced chicken make great party food, and are so simple to put together. For this recipe you will need 15 x 15cm/6in bamboo skewers. Can you eat well for less this Christmas? Take the test
Think you can't make ribs on a weekday? Pop them in the slow-cooker and you can have meltingly tender ribs any day. Crisp up on the barbecue for extra deliciousness. Equipment and preparation: for this recipe you will need a slow cooker.
Bring the flavours of Easter to your kitchen with Mary's moreish hot cross buns. For this recipe you will need a piping bag fitted witha fine 3mm nozzle, but if you don't have a nozzle you could use a piping bag and snip the end off.
Make Easter biscuits the Mary Berry way: use half of the dough to make traditional fruited Easter biscuits, and half to make iced Easter biscuits in funky shapes.
Replace potatoes with root vegetables to reduce the carbohydrates in a chicken traybake and add plenty of spice to turn up the flavour. Each serving provides 361 kcal, 44g protein, 30g carbohydrate (of which 14g sugars), 5.5g fat (of which 1g saturates), 7g fibre and 0.5g salt.
Ask your butcher to score the skin finely for this as the crackling is essential. The first brief roasting at the higher temperature is essential to set the skin on the route to crispness. These ribs are not sweet and sticky but lightly crisp and lip-tingling.
This Cypriot cheese-filled pastry uses ground mahlepi (a Greek spice made from the ground stone of the St Lucie cherry) in the dough, giving a hint of almond flavour. Delicious with a filling of pecorino romano, halloumi and sultanas.
This belly pork takes no time to cook on the barbecue, but an overnight preparation gets you an aromatic marinated flavour and lots of perfect crackling.