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Peanut Butter & Butterscotch Baked Cheesecake | Recipe

Dying to make the cheesecake like the one featured on the cover of our latest issue? Here is a recipe for you to try.
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Lemon Apricot Amaretti Cake | Recipe

This cake is in honour of all of those endless, bright, summery golden days. It is packed with ground almonds, fresh lemon, amaretti biscuit pieces, and apricots, and covered in dreamy vanilla bean cream cheese icing.
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Green Olive, Walnut and Pomegranate Salad | Recipe

This little salad, a thrilling mix of flavours, textures and colours that is almost too glorious to look at, is a speciality of Gaziantep, a Turkish city on the  border with Syria, famous for its gastronomy.  If you don’t have pomegranate seeds, never mind.
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Grilled Courgettes with Warm Yoghurt and Saffron Butter | Recipe

This recipe is inspired by kousa b’laban, a Levantine dish of stuffed baby marrow cooked in yoghurt. In this simplified version the yoghurt sauce and grilled courgettes are cooked separately, then served with a quick saffron butter to spoon on top.
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Angel Cake with Cherries | Recipe

This delicious cherry angel cake is sure to impress these holidays. The hardest part will be deciding who gets a slice with a cherry on top!
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