The Saffron Tales #2

Yesterday I talked about the book itself; today, it’s the recipes.

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Sweets

Sour cherry and dark chocolate biscuits: the first time I made these I couldn’t find sour cherries; that has since been rectified. That first time I used dried blueberries, and they were ok. I really like them with sour cherries – these are some new favourites.

Persian love cake: even though I had no rose water, so I used orange blossom water, this was fantastic. And as Khan herself notes, the cake keeps quite well – I think we ate it over about five days and it didn’t go stale just under plastic wrap in the fridge.

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Carrot and cardamom cupcakes

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Previously on cupcakes: apple, and pistachio.

Yup, more cupcakes. These are appropriately carrot-y, and I like the walnuts. But there wasn’t enough cardamom – definitely increase that next time, or swap out for cinnamon and nutmeg?

Iced with double cream that I’d whipped too much of, for the sponge cake, and blurrily photographed as such below.

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