Award-winning blog of Irish food writer and broadcaster Caroline Hennessy.
I have measured out my life with homemade breads. From “helping” my mother make brown soda loaves on Saturday mornings, through to my teenaged attempts at yeast baking with orange and raisin scrolls, coming...
Bake / Do / Food for Friends / Irish beer & cider
by Caroline · Published August 21, 2013 · Last modified September 24, 2021
I didn’t eat potatoes until I was 30. Not voluntarily at least. Like almost every other Irish child I was weaned on milk-and-butter-rich pandy. But it wasn’t too long before I began to assert...
It’s nearly Easter egg time but, with a wide range of dark, complex bars of chocolate now available, why limit yourself to its sweet side? A few years ago I spoke to chocolatier Willie...
Every year, about this time, there’s a lot of huffing and puffing about stout. Guinness, to name a particular well-marketed brand. But you don’t just have to go for the obvious option if you’re...
Bake / Cookery Books / Read
by Caroline · Published October 13, 2012 · Last modified February 12, 2020
If there’s one thing that Sophie Morris should be able to do well, it’s cookies. She’s built a successful business on a brilliantly simple product and Kooky Dough is exactly what it says: a roll...
Something good just got better. Take your favourite chocolate brownie recipe, dot the brown, cocoa-rich batter with dollops of a simple vanilla cheesecake mixture, swirl and bake. Irresistible? They never seem to last long here....
by Caroline · Published February 2, 2012 · Last modified February 12, 2020
A freezing cold afternoon plus one trying-to-avoid-too-much-caffeine-mother and a grumpy-from-her-nap-toddler. The only solution? Two cups of warming Spiced Hot Chocolate. When I was in college, a mug of this – made with lots of...
Bake / Demos / Irish beer & cider / Work
by Caroline · Published December 9, 2011 · Last modified December 1, 2020
Update March 2015: These started off life in 2011 as Knockmealdown Porter Brownies but, when it came to putting this recipe in Sláinte: The Complete Guide to Irish Craft Beer and Cider, my co-author...
