All Blog Posts — Easter

Toasted Hot Cross Bun Ice Cream This ice cream had a delicious chewy quality and the toasting brings out the spice and citrus flavours. Ingredients 3 Phillippa’s Hot Cross Buns 1 litre vanilla ice cream-softened Method Split and toast 3 buns, allow to cool and blitz them in a food processor until coarsely crumbed. Stir into the ice-cream and re freeze. Serve with poached pears or Mum’s Chocolate Sauce found in Phillippa’s Home Baking Cook Book. Image by Kristoffer Paulsen

Phillippa's Honey Spiced Creamed Sweet Potato Puree has a wonderful spice taste and light crunchy texture. Ingredients 1kg peeled diced sweet potato 3 Tbsp olive oil ½ tsp nutmeg Salt & pepper 100ml cream 100g crushed Phillippa’s Honey Bears or Honey Bunnies biscuits Method Toss the sweet potato in oil, salt, pepper and nutmeg, and roast at 180c for 45 minutes. Puree with crushed biscuits and cream. Re-heat and serve with pork, game or chicken.

Lovers of Bread & Butter Puddings will really enjoy these flavoursome Hot Cross Bun & Butter Puddings! Ingredients 115g sugar 3 eggs 185ml milk 500ml cream ½ vanilla bean, split & scrape seeds Zest of 1 lemon or orange 6 Hot Cross Buns (about 100g each) 50g currants 50gm unsalted butter Individual ramekins about 100-150ml each Method Preheat oven 10 120°C Mix sugar, eggs, milk, cream, vanilla bean and zest for the custard. Strain through sieve and put in a large jug. Slice the buns into three circles, using the top of the buns to make the lid for the...

This recipe is based on Sally Clarke’s Apple Brown Betty. The flavour is much improved with the use of our spicy Hot Cross Bun for the breadcrumbs, not to mention the cute crisp discs with the cross, which is a bit like a biscuit to complete the presentation. Ingredients: 1.5kg apples 1 cinnamon stick 80g sugar 6 Phillippa’s Hot Cross Buns 60g butter  50g brown sugar Cream, whipped with cinnamon to serve Method: Peel, core and slice the apples, and cook gently with a little water and the cinnamon stick, until it becomes a smooth, thick puree. Sweeten with white...