top of page
Neen's Kitchen
Seasonal, sweet & rustic recipes from deepest Doncaster


Cherry Almond Brownies
These brownies are very rich and fudgy. If you prefer them more of a cakey texture, just add an extra quarter teaspoon of baking powder, and bake for 5-10 more minutes.
As always, the better quality ingredients you use, the better the outcome, so please go for real butter and decent quality chocolate if you can. However, cheap supermarket chocolate and baking blocks such as Stork still give a thoroughly decent brownie.
Janine Ogden
May 9


Banana, Chocolate & Ginger Loaf Cake
Banana cake was one of the first recipes I adapted and perfected to my own tastes, back when I opened my little sandwich shop in 2008.
The addition of the dark musc
Janine Ogden
May 2


Almond & Raspberry Brownies
These brownies are very rich and fudgy. If you prefer them more of a cakey texture, just add an extra quarter teaspoon of baking powder, and bake for 5-10 more minutes.
As always, the better quality ingredients you use, the better the outcome, so please go for real butter and decent quality chocolate if you can. However, cheap supermarket chocolate and baking blocks such as Stork still give a thoroughly decent brownie.
Janine Ogden
Apr 22


Cherry & Pecan Brownies
These brownies are very rich and fudgy. If you prefer them more of a cakey texture, just add an extra quarter teaspoon of baking powder, and bake for 5-10 more minutes.
As always, the better quality ingredients you use, the better the outcome, so please go for real butter and decent quality chocolate if you can. However, cheap supermarket chocolate and baking blocks such as Stork still give a thoroughly decent brownie.
Janine Ogden
Apr 11


Caramelised Biscuit Brownies
These brownies are very rich and fudgy. If you prefer them more of a cakey texture, just add an extra quarter teaspoon of baking powder, and bake for 5-10 more minutes.
As always, the better quality ingredients you use, the better the outcome, so please go for real butter and decent quality chocolate if you can. However, cheap supermarket chocolate and baking blocks such as Stork still give a thoroughly decent brownie.
Janine Ogden
Mar 25


Chocolate Stout & Cherry Cake with Mascarpone Icing
I feel like St Patrick's Day is celebrated more the St Georges in England. Maybe we love it because it's a great excuse for some excellent Guinness-fuelled shenanigans?
Either way, have a bit of cake with it, eh?
This is part of my Guinness-inspired bakes collection that will be added to gradually. It's a classic boozy chocolate sponge, topped with a beautiful creamy mascarpone icing, that mimics the frothy top. Stout gives chocolate cake a rich, malty, almost treacle
Janine Ogden
Mar 10


Chocolate Orange Ganache Brownies
This recipe makes dense, fudgey brownies. If you prefer them a little more cakey in texture, add an extra quarter teaspoon of baking powder and bake for 5-10 minutes more.
As always, the better quality ingredients you use, the better the outcome, so please go for real butter and decent quality chocolate if you can. However, cheap supermarket chocolate and baking blocks such as Stork still give a thoroughly decent brownie.
Janine Ogden
Mar 7


White Choc Chip & Almond Cookies
This recipe makes classic style cookies - they're flat, chewy in the middle and crispy at the edges. Try to eat at least one while they're still warm.
There's no need to chill this dough, but you can prepare it a couple of days ahead and keep it in the fridge until you're ready to bake. It freezes well too, so you can form it into flattened balls and bake straight from the freezer.
White Choc Chip & Almond Cookies
Makes 10 if weighed out at 100g each - that's a
Janine Ogden
Feb 25


Espresso Brownies
These brownies are very rich and fudgy. If you prefer them more of a cakey texture, just add an extra quarter teaspoon of baking powder, and bake for 5-10 more minutes.
As always, the better quality ingredients you use, the better the outcome, so please go for real butter and decent quality chocolate if you can. However, cheap supermarket chocolate and baking blocks such as Stork still give a thoroughly decent brownie.
Janine Ogden
Feb 21


Raspberry Ripple, Chocolate & Pistachio Cheesecake
No holds barred with this one - the creamy layer tastes like a good quality raspberry ripple ice cream. Dark chocolate ganache drip makes it
Janine Ogden
Feb 7


White Choc Chip & Raspberry Brownies
These brownies are very rich and fudgy. If you prefer them more of a cakey texture, just add an extra quarter teaspoon of baking powder, and bake for 5-10 more minutes.
As always, the better quality ingredients you use, the better the outcome, so please go for real butter and decent quality chocolate if you can. However, cheap supermarket chocolate and baking blocks such as Stork still give a thoroughly decent brownie.
Janine Ogden
Jan 28


Ginger Spiced Brownies
Dense, fudgey brownies with a ginger kick, to warm your cockles on a nippy Autumn day.
As always, the better quality ingredients you use, the better the outcome, so please go for real butter and decent quality chocolate if you can. However, cheap supermarket chocolate and baking blocks such as Stork still give a thoroughly decent brownie.
This recipe gives a fudgey texture - if you prefer your brownies more cakey, just add an extra quarter teaspoon of baking powder and
Janine Ogden
Jan 10


Banana, Chocolate & Chestnut Loaf Cake
Banana cake was one of the first recipes I adapted and perfected to my own tastes, back when I opened my little sandwich shop in 2008.
The addition of the dark muscovado sugar was a chance I took, when I ran out of caster sugar - and it became my secret ingredient from then on. It elevates it from a decent cake, to a really bloody luvvley cake. By all means use whatever sugar you have, but something brown and unrefined gives the best flavour and texture, in my humble opin
Janine Ogden
Dec 20, 2025


Chocolate Orange Cheesecake
Of course you can skip the candied orange peel and pile it high with Terry's segments or Jaffa Cakes.
But this right here is a good cheffy
Janine Ogden
Dec 13, 2025


Salted Peanut Butter Brownies
These brownies are very rich and fudgy. If you prefer them more of a cakey texture, just add an extra quarter teaspoon of baking powder, and bake for 5-10 more minutes.
As always, the better quality ingredients you use, the better the outcome, so please go for real butter and decent quality chocolate if you can. However, cheap supermarket chocolate and baking blocks such as Stork still give a thoroughly decent brownie.
Janine Ogden
Dec 10, 2025


Chocolate No-Bake Christmas Biscuit Slice
My easy, no-bake biscuit slices all start with the same crushed biscuit base, topped with the same layer of indulgent chocolate ganache.
Janine Ogden
Dec 6, 2025


Coffee Liqueur & Chocolate Fruitcake
Inspired by the goddess herself Nigella Lawson - to give credit for the flavour idea, I will link to her original recipe here. Hers is a b
Janine Ogden
Nov 15, 2025


Triple Choc Chip Brownies
These brownies are very rich and fudgy. If you prefer them more of a cakey texture, just add an extra quarter teaspoon of baking powder, and bake for 5-10 more minutes.
As always, the better quality ingredients you use, the better the outcome, so please go for real butter and decent quality chocolate if you can. However, cheap supermarket chocolate and baking blocks such as Stork still give a thoroughly decent brownie.
Janine Ogden
Nov 8, 2025


Cherry & Chocolate Chunk Scones
The secrets for a nicely shaped, well risen scone:
Handle the dough as little as possible - you shouldn't really be kneading it, other than to just bring it together.
Cut with a sharp metal cutter, or a sharp, flat-bladed knife that's been dusted with flour, and don't twist when you cut - just straight down and lift straight back up.
Glaze/wash on the very top only - don't paint the sides, and try not to let it drip either.
I prefer to cut into triangles for t
Janine Ogden
Nov 5, 2025


Vanilla & Chocolate Pile-High Cheesecake
There is physics involved in this one - please perfect your basic vanilla cheesecake before attempting this, or you'll end up with a (delici
Janine Ogden
Oct 25, 2025
bottom of page