AN EASTER EXPLOSION!

4 April 20234 April 2023 Categories: Friends & Family · Kitchen & CooksTags: Cabbage · easter · easter eggs · Rabbit · Rabbit & Cabbage · Recipe · Recipes · spring entertaining · spring recipe · tray · traysLeave a comment

We set our clever friends @youmothersupper an Easter challenge to fill one of our Rabbit & Cabbage trays with something delicious and THEY DID NOT DISAPPOINT! ⁠Look at those halved creme eggs. Yum!⁠Here is their recipe for this fun creation. We think it would be great to make with the kids over the holidays. ⁠ INGREDIENTS FOR THE CAKE 50g good-quality cacao powder 200g softened salted butter 200g golden caster sugar 4 eggs 200g self raising flour 1tsp baking powder 1 tbsp whole milk 1 tsp vanilla essence  INGREDIENTS FOR DELICIOUS CHOCOLATE TOPPING 150 g icing sugar 50 g butter…

Homemade Banana & Peanut Butter Dog Biscuits

12 May 202212 May 2022 Categories: Kitchen & Cooks · UncategorisedTags: biscuits · daisy · dog · pup · puppy · Recipe · Recipes · thornback and peel · TreatsLeave a comment

A lovely, easy to make treat for your dog. Super simple with only three ingredients. Get their tails wagging with this vegan and gluten free recipe – it is pawfect for those pups with a more sensitive tum. Ingredients: 1 cup of buckwheat flour (delicate tummy) 1 very ripe banana 2-3 tablespoons of natural peanut butter. Method: Mash the ripe banana and then mix all the ingredients together in a bowl Add a few tablespoons of water if the dough is too dry or flour if too wet. Dust your surface or chopping board and bring the dough together, rolling…

Iced Snowflake & Star Biscuits

18 November 202118 November 2021 Categories: Christmas · Friends & Family · Kitchen & Cooks · UncategorisedTags: iced biscuits · iced cookie · kitchen linens · kitchen textiles · Kitchenware · kitchenwares · Recipe · Recipes · winter rabbitLeave a comment

Transform your kitchen into a Winter Wonderland. Bake a flurry of snowflake biscuits for a tasty Christmas gift. They’re great to make and decorate with kids, too. Ingredients 200g unsalted butter , softened 200g golden caster sugar 1 large egg ½ tsp vanilla extract 400g plain flour , plus extra 500g pack ready-to-roll fondant icing honey , for sticking you will also need snowflake and star cookie cutters Method Heat your oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6 and line a baking sheet with baking parchment. Put the butter in a bowl and beat it with electric beaters until soft and creamy. Beat in the sugar, then the egg and vanilla, and…

Perfect Pavlovas in 3 tasty ways

24 April 201926 April 2019 Categories: Kitchen & CooksTags: aprons · Baking · FRUIT · Inspiration · kitchen essentials · kitchen textiles · Kitchenware · London · Napkins · New Design · oven gloves · PINEAPPLE · Recipes · Screen print · tea towels · thornback & peel · thornback and peel · TROPICALLeave a comment

  With their delicate, crispy outside and marshmallowy centre, pavlovas are our go-to party pudding. Once you have mastered the technique of making a good meringue, you can have fun experimenting with different toppings. In this blog post we share some meringue recipe tips, and then make three of our favourite toppings for you to try.   INGREDIENTS (serves 6)  MERINGUES 175g caster sugar 3 large egg whites  Preheat the oven to 140ºC / Fan 120ºC / gas mark 1. Crack the egg whites into a large, clean bowl and whisk until stiff. Two points to note here: firstly you…

Homemade brunch Recipe

9 April 201811 April 2018 Categories: History & Making · Interiors & Designs · Kitchen & CooksTags: brunch · feel good food · Rabbit & Cabbage · Recipes · thornback and peelLeave a comment

Thornback & Peel brunch recipe

Quick Christmas Canapé Recipes

7 November 201728 November 2023 Categories: Christmas · Kitchen & CooksTags: canape recipes · canapes · christmas canape recipes · Christmas prints · christmas recipe · quick canape recipes · Recipes · tea trays · traysLeave a comment

The secret to successful entertaining this Christmas is to keep things simple. Impress your guests with a selection of delicious canapés served up in style – they never need to know just how quick and easy they were to make… Smoked Salmon & Crème Fraîche Blinis What could be simpler or more delicious than a spoonful of crème fraîche topped with smoked salmon and chives. Although you can buy ready-made blinis, it’s fun to make your own, fresh on the day. For the blinis Ingredients (makes 30) 120g self-raising flour 1 large free-range egg olive oil 240ml semi-skimmed milk unsalted butter Method Place the flour and a pinch…

3 Easy-to-Make Breakfast Bowls You’ll Love

31 January 2017 Categories: Kitchen & CooksTags: Breakfast · breakfast bowls · delicious porridge recipes · healthy breakfast · overnight oats · porridge oat recipes · porridge recipes · quick and healthy breakfasts · RecipesLeave a comment

I’m sure that most of you have heard of, and probably tried, overnight oats by now. With the likes of Ella Woodward (Deliciously Ella) and Anna Jones promoting these healthy, easy to prepare and delicious breakfast bowls, my Instagram feed has become awash with different versions that I’ve been experimenting with over the past few weeks. Here are my 3 favourite variations of this tasty, pudding-like porridge (see below for full ingredients lists). Method: All you need to do is to mix together all of the ingredients, cover them, and leave them in the fridge overnight. In the morning you…

Stir Up Sunday

17 November 201618 November 2016 Categories: Kitchen & CooksTags: Baking · Christmas · Kitchenware · mincemeat · Recipes · stir up sundayLeave a comment

As a child, Stir Up Sunday was a fixture in our family’s annual calendar. It heralded the start of Christmas preparations, and meant an afternoon sifting through bowls of raisins to remove all the stalks while a heady mix of spices wafted through the kitchen. Stir Up Sunday is an Anglican term referring to the last Sunday before Advent. It has been a tradition since Victorian times for families to get together and stir the Christmas pudding, before it is cooked and then put away ready for Christmas day. For my family, it was my Mum’s famous Christmas cake made…

Beetroot Bourguignon with Puy Lentils

24 October 201625 October 2016 Categories: Kitchen & CooksTags: Beetroot · Bourguignon · Healthy · Inspiration · Kitchenware · Penni · Pheasant and oak · Recipes · Stew · VegetarianLeave a comment

With the onset of autumn and cold nights approaching, this to me only means it is time to comfort eat! But trying to stay healthy doing it is sometimes hard. Fortunately I absolutely love vegetables, but making them the star of every meal is sometimes quite a tricky task even for me and I am a vegetarian! However a couple of years ago I stumbled upon an amazing food blog written by David and Luise called Green Kitchen Stories  Not only do their recipes look mouth wateringly delicious in every picture but they are also super healthy too. The star of this…

Patisserie Makes Perfect!

19 October 20161 February 2017 Categories: Kitchen & CooksTags: apron · Baking · Cabbage · cakes · kitchen essentials · Kitchenware · ovengloves · patisserie · Rabbit · Rabbit & Cabbage · Recipes · tea towelsLeave a comment

It’s Patisserie Week on the Great British Bake Off, so what better way to celebrate than with our favourite patisserie baker Angela, of foodie blog Patisserie Makes Perfect. We first came across Angela on social media – she’s a big fan of Thornback & Peel, but also turned out to have a rather gorgeous blog of her own. Patisserie Makes Perfect is one woman’s journey to perfect the art of patisserie, viennoiserie, cakes, biscuits and all the crème pat and buttercream you could eat. Full of delicious images and tempting recipes, we were immediately hooked! Prepare to indulge…. T&P: Hi…