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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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    Bake With Stone Fruit

    • Peach jam served with sourdough bread and butter on the side.
      Peach Jam Without Added Pectin
    • Transferring homemade apricot jam into jars to seal them.
      Apricot jam
    • A slice of plum cake on a pink glass plate.
      Plain Plum Cake
    • Cute pie with star design on top crust served with pile of plates and forks and a cup of coffee, striped linen
      Peach mango pie
    • Whiskey peach pie with an oat crumble topping
      Whiskey peach crumble pie
    • Plum tart recipe | @ktchnhealssoul
      Plum tart with muscovado

    Berry Season

    • Milk crumbs on a Momofuku Milk Bar style cake-layers of blackberry curd, almond cake, and almond frosting
      Blackberry almond cake — Milk Bar style
    • raspberry amaretti semifreddo slice
      Almond raspberry semifreddo
    • Vanilla cardamom tapioca pudding with strawberries
      Homemade tapioca pudding recipe with fresh strawberries
    • Rhubarb upside down cake sliced to serve it.
      Rhubarb Raspberry Upside-Down Cake
    • Bluebarb or blueberry rhubarb crumble with a marzipan oat crumble topping in a blue baking dish with a fluted edge
      Blueberry rhubarb crisp with marzipan crumble
    • A pan of baked honey blueberry muffins with streusel topping.
      Honey blueberry muffins

    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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