For the best flavour when making delicious treats like truffles, a ‘real’ chocolate is best. This type of chocolate is sometimes called couverture, but good quality eating chocolate may also…
Recipes
Fig Tarte Tatin
You will need: 60g (2oz) caster sugar 60g (2oz) butter ½ tsp vanilla extract, optional 8 figs, stalks trimmed, halved 320g pack ready rolled puff pastry Greek yogurt, to serve…
GALLERY: Halloween party food recipes
Darker evenings and chilly weather are the first sign that Halloween is on the way. As well as dusting off our witch’s hat and digging out our fancy dress cauldron,…
Best Of… Our Favourite Recipes
This Woman’s Weekly Classics Series special has been reprinted by popular demand! Woman’s Weekly celebrated its centenary in 2011 and, to mark the occasion, we published our favourite recipes from…
How to make the perfect buttercream macaroon
There is nothing more delicious than a buttercream macaroon and Woman’s Weekly cookery editor Sue McMahon knows how to make the very best. In our introduction mini-video here we show…
Mary Berry wins outstanding achievement prize at the National Book Awards
Mary Berry has been awarded with an outstanding achievement prize at the National Book Awards. Read more and buy her books from the Woman's Weekly Shop
Berry Sundaes
Serves 4 Ingredients: 300g (10oz) blueberries and raspberries mixed 1 tbsp caster sugar 1tbsp Cassis or raspberry liqueur (or water) 4 tbsp good lemon curd 200ml pot crème fraiche 4…
Come to our Cake Decorating Workshop
September is a busy month for our Cookery Editor, Sue McMahon, because not only will she be showing off her cake decorating skills at Woman’s Weekly Live! but…
Top 5 tips to making the perfect macaroons
Cookery Editor, Sue McMahon, gives extra tips if you’ve been inspired to have a go at the macaroon tower that we’ve recently featured in our “wedding special issue” The…
Your Bakes: Martin’s 80th Birthday Piano Cake
How lovely is this piano cake that Martin Moss' daughters had made for his 80th birthday - what a great birthday cake!
Your Bakes: Sam’s Triple Lemon Cake
There's nothing we love more than a good slice of a cake with a cuppa - so we were seriously tempted when user, Sam, sent this in!
Your Bakes: Anne’s bright and colourful dolphin cake
Anne Carey has sent in this rather amazing Dolphin Cake! On what inspired this creation, Anne said “The daughter of a friend had studied dolphins for a…
Your Bakes: Margaret’s Doll Cake
Reader Margaret says: I love to bake and be creative. I have been inspired since childhood - this cake was made for little girl that turned one in December 2013
You don’t have to be Scottish to celebrate Burns Night
Cookery Editor Sue McMahon offers up some tasty suggestions for celebrating Burns night with a Scottish themed menu
GALLERY: Tasty tart recipes
12 perfectly tasty tart recipes selected by our cookery team...
The People Who Bring You Christmas: Kiri Kalenko, Senior Chocolatier
Ella Dove speaks to Kiri Kalenko, 28, who works as a Senior Chocolatier for Hotel Chocolat in their development kitchen.
Filling the freezer for Christmas
Our Cookery Editor, Sue McMahon, shares what she's been filling her freezer with in preparation for Christmas.
GALLERY: Christmas food ideas
10 festive favourites selected by our cookery team.
GALLERY: Delicious Christmas puddings & pies to cook
This festive selection of wickedly indulgent puddings and pies are sure to put the merry in Christmas.
Don’t forget it’s "Stir-Up Sunday"
Stir-up sunday - the last Sunday before the start of Advent is traditionally the date to mix up your Christmas pudding, as Cookery Editor, Sue McMahon, explains....