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    Botanical Baking

    If you love to bake with botanicals and flavourful herbs and teas, try these botanical baking recipes made with lavender, mint, Earl Grey tea, and more!

    • Slicing and serving a honey cake with whipped cream and lavender on top.
      Lavender Honey Cake
    • A pink plate with a piece of toast topped with homemade rhubarb jam.
      Small-Batch Rhubarb Jam Recipe Without Pectin
    • Matcha Tarts with Passion Fruit Curd
    • A square piece of a chocolate tart topped with whipped cream on a wooden board.
      Earl grey chocolate tart with whipped cream
    • A cup of hot chocolate with cookies.
      Best Hot Chocolate with Earl Grey
    • Mini matcha cakes on dessert plates.
      Easy Matcha Cake
    • Baked lavender white chocolate scones on a blue-rimmed white enamelware plate with butter and a butter knife, blue and white striped napkin
      Lavender Scones with White Chocolate
    • A tin of homemade truffles lightly dusted in cocoa powder.
      Earl Grey Chocolate Truffles
    • Lavender shortbread cookies cut into wedges and dipped in white chocolate.
      Lavender shortbread cookies dipped in white chocolate
    • Green bowls with scoops of homemade mint chocolate chip ice cream.
      Mint chocolate chip ice cream
    • This Earl grey tea cake is a layer cake infused with Earl Grey tea. Earl Grey tea is used in the cake layers, in the Earl Grey frosting, and in the garnish.
      Earl Grey cake
    • Earl grey panna cotta tarts
      Earl Grey panna cotta tarts
    • Matcha gingerbread cutout cookies
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    Make Marmalade

    • How to make marmalade
    • Jars of homemade lime marmalade on a cooling rack.
      Lime marmalade
    • A pot of homemade marmalade ready to be canned in jars.
      Orange Marmalade Recipe
    • Pink grapefruit marmalade on toast on a plate with a striped linen.
      Grapefruit marmalade
    • marmalade temperature experiment
      Never make runny marmalade again: the marmalade setting point
    • Three fruit marmalade

    Citrus Baking

    • A pink plate filled with lemon shortbread cookies and with a yellow napkin.
      Lemon Shortbread Cookies
    • gluten-free-lemon-cake-with-lemon-curd-and-berries
      Gluten-free lemon cake with raspberries
    • Slicing and serving a glazed orange cake
      Orange Almond Cake (Gluten-Free + Grain-Free)
    • Removing orange rhubarb cakes from mini loaf cake pans with a mini offset spatula.
      Orange Rhubarb Cakes
    • lemon mousse
      Lemon mousse (gluten-free)
    • Slices of orange cranberry cake served on pink glass plates with forks.
      Orange Cranberry Bundt Cake

    Eggless chocolate cake

    Chocolate layer cake with cream cheese frosting and chocolate sprinkles on a cake stand.
    Learn to make an eggless chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting!

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    How to poach pears

    Poached pears on an enamelware plate.
    This easy poached pears recipe is simple and you can use the poached fruit for salads, appetizers, and desserts!

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