Tag: dessert

The Dandelion Coffee Panna Cotta recipe is a fancy-sounding but deceptively easy sweet to make, which should more properly be described as weed flavoured pudding! With it’s spicy biscuit, reminiscent of cardamom and warm, familiar coffee notes, your family and friends will not believe these sophisticated flavours come from the…

Sweet Woodruff / Spring / Summer / Autumn / Edible Sweet Woodruff is an edible & delicious low lying, perennial plant, found in well established woodlands. Common Names Sweet Woodruff, Sweet-scented bedstraw. Botanical Name Galium Odoratum Scientific Classification Kingdom – Plantae Order – Gentianales Family – Rubiaceae Foraging Video for…

This Vegan Elderflower & Lemon Drizzle Cake is a delicious wild and vegan elderfower and lemon drizzle cake that is great with a nice cup of tea on a sunny spring afternoon.   Ingredients for our Vegan Elderflower & Lemon Drizzle Cake: 200g plain flour 50g ground almonds 2 teaspoons…

Fig Leaf Cookies This is a nice, simple and delicious way to use the leaves from a fig tree to get a sweet treat whilst waiting for the figs to ripen! The fig leaves will need to be dehydrated or dried and then ground into a powder. Ingredients 225g plain…

LEMON AND MEADOWSWEET CURD My favourite method of capturing the essence of meadowsweet is with this wonderful lemon and meadowsweet curd. The meadowsweet adds an incredible almond flavour to the classic curd. In little jars, it makes beautiful summertime gifts and can be spread on toast, cakes or pancakes and…

Words and Imagery from @foraged.by.fern instagram Crumbly, forest flavoured, buttery bites of deliciousness! I was so happy with these biscuits, they will definitely be served up on some of my 2020 workshops! Just the smell transports you to the woods and gives you a huge, nourishing nature hug!  Ingredients 50g…

from @foraged.by.fern instagram Ingredients & Method Rub together 250g of plain flour and 125g of chilled butter until it looks like breadcrumbs! Then add 1 egg and a tbsp of water and bring together to form a dough! Wrap in cling film and leave in the fridge before you roll…

My favourite thing to make with them is cherry blossom jam! It saves for ages and can be used in so many things. With toast, cakes, pancakes and stirred into rice pudding and porridge!  There is so much cherry blossom blooming at the moment! The skies are pink and it’s…

Elderflower fritters are the quickest thing to make with elderflower, you can literally have them from the tree to fritters within 5 minutes – they couldn’t be more freshly picked. These are a brilliant as a midday snack and work brilliantly as a key to getting kids into foraging and…

This Elderflower Cheesecake recipe is a fantastic way to enjoy the seasons most fine elderflowers with a refreshing floral and intense musky flavour that will finish off any meal perfectly. Click here to see our Elder Foraging Guide Ingredients for this Elderflower Cheesecake Recipe: 1 x Pack of Digestives –…