In this episode Nigella shows us to how make her go-to celebratory cake a chocolate peanut butter layered creation that is her children’s cake of dreams, dark, damp and divinely chocolatey.
Sat on the stairs Nigella opens up her toolbox-like liquorice case, packed with everything from chocolate liquorice balls to salted liquorice guitars.
But it’s the small yet intense liquorice pellets the latter of which she uses to make a sauce for her Basque Burnt cheesecake, a gloriously simple burnished cheesecake served nestled in the crinkly baking paper in which it’s cooked.
This is followed by a recipe that she calls on regularly and especially when she has vegetarian or vegan friends coming over. Roast vegetables with fragrant cumin and fennel seeds to accompany spiced bulgur wheat, finished off with a luscious pink beetroot sauce.
Not only is it delicious but also forgiving, happy to sit on the side until guests are ready to tuck in.
Production credits: A BBC Studio production. Series Co-Created with Nigella Lawson., Series Producers: Martha Swales and Laura Abrahams, Series Director: Dominic Cyriax.
