Year after year, this is one of our best-selling cakes. It has a warm golden colour and a pleasant spicy flavour with just the right amount of sweetness – just the thing to enjoy with a cup of tea on a chilly day. 

Here is the recipe if you fancy baking one yourself...

My sister recently sent me this brilliant photo of my nieces busy baking in the kitchen at home. Their school summer fete was coming up and alongside the competition for a jam jar full of weeds (!) was a plate of four homemade biscuits.

 Shortbread recipe included! 

From our book : Hokey Pokey Biscuits

This recipe is one we gained from a young New Zealander who came to stay with us one summer. Like Marty, the biscuits soon became a family favourite. Marty described them as ‘world famous in New Zealand’. Quick and easy to make, this a good recipe to get children involved with.