FINGER FOOD - COLD DESSERT

Cranachan Cream Crowdie. Gluten-Free

A traditional Scottish Harvest Home Celebration dessert, mini version in a tot or shot glass. Cranachan is a celebration of Scottish produce, here however with just a hint of the Caribbean. ...read more

Ice Scream - Raw Milk Rich Vanilla Ice Cream Appetisers. Gluten-free

Inspired by a scene from the 1963 Horror Comedy Spoof The Raven with Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Peter  Lorre and a very young Jack Nicholson. We had such fun making these...read more

Pistachio Stuffed Dates.  Gluten-free 

As well as being a festive  dish, this recipe for stuffed dates is also an accompaniment for mint tea a fragrant and typically Moroccan drink...read more

Cashew Stuffed Dates. Gluten-free Petits Fours

This time I'm using cashew nuts and marrying them with apricots...read more

Caledonian Cream. Traditional Festive Scottish Desser. Gluten-Free

Caledonian cream, is associated with Burns' Night suppers, wedding breakfast menus and was a favourite of Queen Victoria's Christmas fare at Balmoral...read more

Mediaeval Cider Syllabub Float. Gluten-Free

Since Mediaeval times and right up to the end of the 17th century syllabub was a drink rather than a dessert. It was also a love token ....read more

Scottish Flummery Chocolate & Orange. Gluten-Free

From a lowly food of the poor to a complex festive Georgian centrepiece, flummery started life as a lowly gruel cum porridge,  made from the fermented soakings and..read more

Chocolate Roulade Layer Cakes with Chocolate Ganache. Gluten-free

A traditional luscious French flourless and fatless sponge or biscuit roulade, which here I've made into mini triple-layer cakes with home-made fresh apricot compote and chocolate ganache...read more

Mini Pavlova- Gluten-Free

Named for the Russian prima ballerina Anna Pavlova. There is something rather wonderfully decadent in being able to eat one in just a few bites!..read more

STUFFED CANDIED GRAPE 'TOFFEE APPLES' - Gluten-Free

Sometimes it's important, albeit a little crazy, to create a recipe which should be prefaced with the words 'difficult and finicky'. I'd seen photographs of ...read more

Chocolate Mousse - Elegant, Opulent, Easy & Makes A Superb Ice Cream

Chocolate mousse, like the equally ubiquitous apple pie and crème caramel is one of those simple recipes that rely totally on the quality of the basic ingredients. As such therefore, it is very well suited to showcasing the best and freshest of organic produce...read more