Step 1-Preheat your oven to 180 degrees celcius/160 degrees for a fan oven/gas mark 4. Line a 12 cup muffin tin with paper muffin cases. Then add the flour and bicarbonate of soda to a mixing bowl and place to one side. Take 1 tbsp of the muscovado sugar and put it to one side, then mix the rest of the sugar with flour and the porridge oats, making a well in the centre of the mixture.

Step 2-In another bowl, break up the bananas and mash them until completely smooth. Once you have done this, add the 2 egg whites, the 5 tbsp of olive oil and the buttermilk to the banana until it starts to combine.

Step 3-Pour the liquid mixture in to the well you created in the sugar, flour and porridge oats mixture and stir in quickly. The mixture may look like it needs further mixing, but don’t overdo it. Add the blueberries and give it one final stir to ensure the blueberries are evenly spread out.

Step 4-Split the mixture evenly among the 12 cups in the muffin tray, and sprinkle each cup with a bit of the remaining porridge oats and muscovado sugar.

Step 5-Bake the muffins for around 20 minutes until they have fully risen and have turned a dark golden brown colour. Allow to cool for 5 to 10 minutes before serving. That’s it, these deliciously simple low fat banana and blueberry muffins are ready to enjoy!

Step 1-Preheat your oven to 160 degrees celcius/140 degrees for a fan oven/gas mark 6. Line the base of a shallow cake tin with baking paper.

Step 2-Blend the ginger biscuits in a food processor until they are in fine pieces. Melt the butter on the hob and stir it in to the ginger biscuits until it is well mixed together. Empty the ginger biscuit and butter mixture in to the tin and spread out across the base until it is compressed.

Step 3-Rinse the food processor bowl and use it to mix together the lemon rind and juice, the soured cream, cream cheese, ricotta, eggs, caster sugar, cornflour and vanilla extract. Blend all the ingredients until it becomes smooth.

Step 4-Pour the mixture on top of the biscuit base and bake in the oven for around 40 minutes until it starts to set. One this is the case, take it out of the oven to allow it time to cool.

Step 5-Whisk the double cream until it is soft and spread over the top of the cheesecake. Refrigerate overnight to allow it to set properly.

Step 5-When you want to serve the New York cheesecake, remove it from the tin before removing the baking paper. If you are serving this for your New Year’s Eve party, cut the cake in to 48 squares, or however many you think you will need. If you have chosen lemon curd as the topping, put the lemon curd in to a piping bag and pipe a bit of lemon curd on to each piece of this delicious New York Cheesecake. If you have chosen the raspberries as a topping, place one on top of each piece. Or you can serve it as it is with no topping, it is completely up to you!

Step 1- Place the dried fruit and candied peel in a large mixing bowl, adding the 4 tbsp of brandy, and mix well. Leave this overnight to allow the fruit to absorb the flavour of the brandy, this will really help to make a delicious tasting cake!

Step 2-On the day that you plan to make the cake, grease and line a 9inch deep round cake tin with a double layer of greaseproof paper, and preheat the oven to 140 degrees celcius/120 degrees celcius in a fan oven/Gas mark 1.

Step 3-Apart from the almonds, place all the remaining ingredients in to a large mixing bowl and mix it together well. Then stir in the nuts and the soaked fruit, along with any of the remaining liquid that the fruit had been soaking in.

Step 4-Once the mixture is beaten together well, spoon it in to the 9 inch (23cm) deep round cake tin, smooth the top of the mixture and place a disk of baking paper on top. If you haven’t got a 9 inch (23cm) cake tin, you can use a 20cm square cake tin. Place the cake in the centre of the oven and cook for between 4-5 hours until the cake is a delicious golden brown colour. It should also be firm to touch. Here’s a tip, push a skewer in to the cake and pull I out again. If the skewer is clean when you pull it out, you know the cake is done. Leave the cake to cool in the tin.

Step 5- Once the cake has cooled, remove the baking paper disc, pierce the top of the cake in several places and pour over some brandy. Remove the cake from the cake tin, but leave it in the baking paper. Wrap it in more baking paper and store it in a cool place (preferably for a minimum of 3 weeks) until you want to serve it.

Step 6- When it comes to serving the cake, remove the baking paper and decorate it with the glace fruit or even ready to use icing. You could tie a ribbon around it if you are feeling extra festive! All there is left to do is share this delicious cake with your friends and family. Merry Christmas!

Step 1- Preheat your oven to 200 degrees celcius/400 degrees Fahrenheit/Gask mark 6.

Step 2-Peel and core the apples and set them to one side. Mix the flour, brown sugar orange zest and mixed spice together.

Step 3-Take about one third of the apples and place them in a pie dish. Sprinkle around half of the flour, brown sugar, orange zest and mixed spice mixture over the apples, before adding about half of the remaining apples and mixture on top again. Then neatly arrange any of the remaining apples on top and pour the orange juice on.

Step 4-Cut the butter in the pieces and place evenly among the apples.

Step 5- Take the shortcrust pastry and roll it out until it is about 4cm longer than the pie dish you are using. Cut a 1.25cm strip of pastry, wet the edges of the pie dish and stick the 1.25cm strip of pastry around the edge of the dish.

Step 6- Wet the pastry edge and place the main piece of pastry over the top of the pie dish. It is important to ensure that the edges of the pastry and pressed firmly together.

Step 7- Before placing in the oven, brush the pastry with water and sprinkle the caster sugar over it. Bake in the preheated oven for 15 minutes at 200 degrees celcius/400 degrees Fahrenheit/Gas Mark 6 before reducing the temperature to 180 celcius/350 fahrenheit/gas mark 4 to cook for a further 30 minutes until the pastry turns a delicious golden brown colour.

Step 8-We love our apple pie with custard, but it is equally as delicious served with cream or ice cream. Enjoy!