Bryony's Bakes

Here in Portland, we just had a weekend of record-breaking temperatures. On Sunday we hit 100°, which is really just unbearably hot. I’m English, we aren’t made for that kind of weather. Fortunately, it looks like our temperatures are going to go down over the …

Last week I couldn’t decide whether to post the white chocolate lemon biscotti recipe or this recipe for Nigel Slater’s rhubarb custard fool. I made them both last weekend to get ahead on recipes for the blog and they were both just so good! In …

Sometimes you just need a cookie that you really have to bite into. A crunchy, hard, almost crack your teeth on it kind of cookie. Don’t get me wrong, I’m a big fan of soft brown butter chocolate chip cookies or pillowy sugar cookies but …

We’re about halfway through the very short rhubarb season and this is the first time I’ve used rhubarb this year. It might look like red celery but I can assure you it isn’t. It’s much more delicious than celery. Rhubarb is a pretty tart tasting …

Another week, another old recipe to revisit. This time it’s a lemon blueberry loaf cake! It’s been here on the blog since 2016, but it got a recent upgrade for citrus summer and now it’s really ready for prime time. I’ve gotta admit, I don’t …