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Neen's Kitchen
Seasonal, sweet, rustic recipes from deepest Doncaster


Brazil Nut 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
Aug 302 min read


Banana, Chocolate & Hazelnut 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
Aug 162 min read


Coffee, Date & Walnut Cookies
This recipe makes classic cookies - they're flat, chewy in the middle and crispy at the edges. Try to eat at least one while they're still a bit 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.
Coffee, Date & Walnut Cookies
Janine Ogden
Aug 22 min read


Walnut 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
Jul 262 min read


Pecan Blondies
For me, Blondies should be made with melted white chocolate in the mixture - just as a Brownie has melted dark chocolate.
This recipe gives a fudgy texture. If you prefer them more cakey, add an extra quarter teaspoon of baking powder and leave them in the oven a little bit longer.
Janine Ogden
Jul 192 min read


The Perfect Flapjack
Now then...I've eaten A LOT of flapjacks in my life. I've baked thousands of the chuffs - we used to sell up to 12 dozen a week in my little sandwich shop.
The best ones I tasted were packed with loads of fruit & nuts, and had that bit of extra rich, chewy squishy-ness. Over time I learned that they w
Janine Ogden
Jun 212 min read
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