Trusted British chef recipes, tested at home
Nigella Lawson’s chocolate salame is a no-bake chocolate fridge log studded with amaretti, almonds, hazelnuts and pistachios, dusted with icing sugar and tied up with string to look like a real salame. It makes about 20 generous slices, from her book Nigellissima. She’s met quite a few versions in Italy and concluded it’s really an …
Nigella Lawson’s salted chocolate tart is a rich, silky chocolate filling set in a no-bake Oreo biscuit base, flecked with smoked sea salt and served with crème fraîche. It cuts into 14 slices, from her book Simply Nigella. She says she’d always avoided chocolate tarts, not from laziness but because she never felt the pastry …
Nigella Lawson’s triple chocolate buckwheat cookies are rich, gluten-free chocolate cookies made with nutty buckwheat flour, cocoa, melted dark chocolate and chocolate chips. The batch makes about 25, from her book Simply Nigella. She calls them a prime example of “procrastibaking”, a term she credits to Aya Reina: she first made them during the Simply …
Nigella Lawson’s gluten-free banana bread is a tender, light loaf made with rice flour and ground almonds, sweetened with very ripe bananas and studded with chunky walnuts and dark chocolate. It cuts into 10 to 12 slices, from her book Cook, Eat, Repeat. She calls it a promise finally kept, and one she took her …
Jamie Oliver’s chocolate cake is a flourless, five-ingredient sponge of dark chocolate, butter, eggs, golden caster sugar and cocoa, baked in a tray in 15 minutes. It’s gluten-free and serves 16. In Simply Jamie (2024) this isn’t a finished iced cake but a base, built to become other puddings. Jamie bakes it, then turns it …