Monthly Archives: January 2023

If you’ve ever been lucky enough to try the classic American campfire delicacy that is s’mores, marshmallows toasted with chocolate between crackers until melting and delicious, you will love our S’more Brownies. Taken from our bestselling cookbook Home Sweet Home, we’ll show you how to make this fudgy chocolate brownie with a gooey marshmallow topping that goes golden and toasty. It’s super-easy and perfect for sharing by the campfire.   Watch Tarek make our S’more Brownies here: S’more Brownies   The much-loved American campsite treat — this time used for topping brownies! It's essential to line the baking tin with foil as this will stop any burning when it comes to putting the tin back under the grill or using a cook's blowtorch for the marshmallow topping.   MAKES 12-15 BROWNIES   FOR THE BASE: 200g (7oz) DIGESTIVE BISCUITS 125g (4 ½ oz) UNSALTED BUTTER   FOR THE BROWNIE: 115g (4oz) UNSALTED BUTTER 120g (4oz) DARK CHOCOLATE (MINIMUM 70%

If you’ve ever been lucky enough to try the classic American campfire delicacy that is s’mores, marshmallows toasted with chocolate between crackers until melting and delicious, you will love our S’more Brownies. Taken from our bestselling cookbook Home Sweet Home, we’ll show you how to make this fudgy chocolate brownie with a gooey marshmallow topping that goes golden and toasty. It’s super-easy and perfect for sharing by the campfire.   Watch Tarek make our S’more Brownies here: S’more Brownies    The much-loved American campsite treat — this time used for topping

Food icon Heinz has teamed up with the award-winning Hummingbird Bakery to celebrate its 150 year anniversary with a range of five cupcakes with a difference.   This irresistible recipe features rich chocolate sponge flavoured with cocoa and studded with dark chocolate chips, and uses the luxuriousness of Heinz [Seriously] Good Mayonnaise along with a splash of buttermilk to lend it an indulgently moist texture. Each cupcake is frosted with a moreish chocolate cream cheese frosting and drizzled with melted white chocolate for a decadent finish. Just like mayonnaise, more is more when it comes to this chocolate cupcake.   Makes 24 cupcakes INGREDIENTS   Cupcakes: 235 g   Heinz [Seriously] Good Mayonnaise295 g  

Food icon Heinz has teamed up with the award-winning Hummingbird Bakery to celebrate its 150 year anniversary with a range of five cupcakes with a difference. Pouring a can of classic Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup into the sponge mixture brings plenty of moisture and adds the natural sugars of the tomato, but best of all it gives it the glorious orange sunset colour that we know and love from Heinz Cream of Tomato Soup. Then comes the time to let the vibrant aroma of basil make an impression by warming fresh basil leaves in double cream to gently infuse the cream with basil flavour. Whipping this up into a light and creamy frosting, each cupcake is decorated with a generous swirl of basil-scented cream cheese frosting. Makes 14 cupcakes INGREDIENTS Cupcakes: 60 g     Unsalted butter, at room temperature  

Food icon Heinz has teamed up with the award-winning Hummingbird Bakery to celebrate its 150 year anniversary with a range of five cupcakes with a difference. The Hummingbird Bakery’s bakers took the popular flavour pairing of strawberries and balsamic vinegar and used this as the basis for this incredible Heinz Salad Cream Cupcake. The salad cream flavoured sponge is filled and smothered with a salad cream flavour frosting, which in turn has crushed meringue and chopped summer strawberries muddled through in tribute to an Eton Mess. The sharpness of the tangy Heinz Salad Cream cuts through the sweetness of the crisp, chewy meringue and complements the juicy freshness of the strawberries beautifully. Makes 20 cupcakes INGREDIENTS Cupcakes:115 g   Unsalted butter, at room temperature300 g   Caster

Follow our recommendations for the perfect pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving! Keep your dough as chilled as possible  Warm dough becomes oily and unmanageable, so be sure to keep hands and surfaces cool and the temperature down in the kitchen when working with pastry. Allow your pastry to chill in the fridge after combining all the ingredients together.   Calibrate your oven temperature  An oven thermometer is your best friend where precise baking is concerned. Check your oven is operating at the correct temperature with an inexpensive oven thermometer. Don’t use fresh pumpkin  Aside from being a handful to cut up, fresh pumpkin is watery and difficult to bake with as the water content is so high. We recommend using canned pumpkin purée as this

Follow our recommendations for the perfect pumpkin pie this Thanksgiving! Keep your dough as chilled as possible  Warm dough becomes oily and unmanageable, so be sure to keep hands and surfaces cool and the temperature down in the kitchen when working with pastry. Allow your pastry to chill in the fridge after combining all the ingredients together.   Calibrate your oven temperature  An oven thermometer is your best friend where precise baking is concerned. Check your oven is operating at the correct temperature with an inexpensive oven thermometer. Don’t use fresh pumpkin  Aside from being a handful to cut up, fresh pumpkin is watery and difficult to bake with as the water content is so high. We recommend using canned pumpkin purée as this

We’ve teamed up with food icon Heinz to celebrate its 150 year anniversary with a range of five cupcakes with a difference. Each one features the unmistakable taste of one of five different Heinz varieties: Heinz Tomato Ketchup Cupcake Heinz Beanz Cupcake Heinz Salad Cream Cupcake Heinz [Seriously]

If you are planning on throwing down a picnic blanket and enjoying the best of the summer weather in the distanced safety of our London parks, why not bring a decadent dessert for sharing?   We’ve been baking our indulgent selection of American recipe pies for many years and they always hit the spot with their golden pie crusts and authentic fillings.   Please note our bakers require 48 hours’ notice for all pie orders, so please do order as far in advance as possible.   These sumptuous desserts are all 9” sized and are made for sharing. They can be ordered for delivery to selected London postcodes or for free collection at our bakeries in Soho, Spitalfields, Islington, Richmond, Notting Hill and South Kensington.   Enjoy a slice of the good life

We at The Hummingbird Bakery are so thrilled to be supporters of the #Veganuary2022 campaign. Veganuary is a non-profit organisation that encourages people worldwide to try a vegan diet for January and beyond. During the 2021 campaign, over 500’000 people took the pledge to try a vegan diet, while more than 825 new vegan products and menu options were launched across the world. To celebrate Veganuary we have come up with a delicious, limited-edition cupcake - our version of the classic cinnamon and raspberry jam doughnut. The exclusive cupcake features a cinnamon doughnut sponge filled with raspberry jam topped with cinnamon cream cheese frosting in our signature swirl. It is then dusted with a sprinkle of glistening cinnamon sugar and finished off with dollop of jam. This sits alongside staple vegan red velvet, vanilla and chocolate cupcakes which can be purchased all year round as well as larger with vegan vanilla, red velvet, rainbow or Devil’s Food layer