This recipe is adapted from the version in my cookbook, Postal Bakes, available in all good book shops. To get the recipe, sign up to my new and free baking newsletter, Sweet Disposition, HERE.  Thanks to my micro baking business, my newsletter and occasional freelance recipe writing gigs, I do quite a lot of baking. A lot of produce passes through this kitchen and over the years, I’ve gotten better at shopping wisely. I know pretty accurately how much of each ingredient I'll need, how long that ingredient will last, and what I might do with anything that’s left over. Whenever ..read more

Hello! How are you? Keeping well I hope?  It amazes me but also makes my heart swell that despite nearly three years of quiet around these parts, over 300 of you still visit this blog every single day. My intention was always that Pudding Lane would remain an achive of recipes and writing, available to whoever wanted to use them, and I couldn't be happier to see that that is exactly what's happening.  For anyone who's exhausted the archives and might be looking for newer writing and recipes, I have a couple of places to point you! Firstly, my cookbook, Postal Bakes, which came out l ..read more

I've lost count of the number of times I've opened a blog post with an apology, so instead of dwelling too much on my absence, I'll start with an announcement. I've moved!  My new newsletter, Sweet Disposition, officially launched today on Substack. It's free to read, lands straight in your inbox, and is a new home for recipes, restaurant recommendations, cookbook favourites and other life updates. You can sign up HERE.  I've dived into where I've been and why I've moved to Substack in my first post, so I'll let you read that when you join me over there. Let's just say, it's time fo ..read more

Well... hello! Not quite sure how else to open after a cool 21 months away. Life got busy and the world went crazy and, well, here we are. I miss writing here and hope to reinvigorate this special space one day. Until then, I wanted to stop by quickly as I have some very exciting news which I'm dying to share with you!  I WROTE A COOKBOOK! I’m so excited (but also strangely nervous!) to finally be able to shout from the rooftops that my first cookbook, Postal Bakes, comes out on 12th May in the UK, published by Welbeck. She’s also coming out in the USA, Aus & NZ shortly afterwards an ..read more

Another day in lockdown, another day digging through the archives of my first blog, which I  briefly wrote during my last year at university and first few months living in London. Like flicking through old photo albums or hearing your voice played back to you, it's been an equally toe-curlingly cringeworthy and fondly nostalgic occupation. Turns of phrase and baking trends that have not aged well stand in for the bad haircuts and questionable clothing choices - I like to think I won't read this post back in seven years time with such disdain, but who knows. And before I move on ..read more

Hello! How are you doing? You ok-ish? The world feels like it's turned upside down, doesn't it? I'm a week into working from home, and just a couple of days into lockdown here in London. I'd like to say I'm getting used to it, but it does all still feel like a bit of a bad dream.  I'm trying to establish some semblance of a routine, to differentiate the different stages of the day if nothing else. I'm starting my day with a gentle Vinyasa, finishing it with a run round Southwark park and for those 15 or so hours in between... well, I'm working on it. There's only so many ways to keep w ..read more

These days, weekends are busy for me. My cake business - Lucy Burton Cakes - is getting busier and busier, and while I am loving all I'm doing, it does tend to occupy most of my weekends and evenings. Increasingly, I find myself missing those leisurely weekend mornings of old, where the only thing to trouble over was who was getting coffee and who was cooking brunch.  And so, for a little slice of nostalgia for those early days in London, I'm sharing one of my favourite weekend breakfast recipes. Dutch in name (and origin, a ccording to Google) but thoroughly American by adoption, the Dutc ..read more

Hello and happy new year! 2020 is here and I'm so excited to introduce a new series for Pudding Lane... say hello to the Pudding Lane Book Club! As those of you who follow me over on Instagram will know, I've spent a lot of time over the last couple months thinking about how I want this little space to grow and evolve. I buy and read SO many cookbooks, and so this year, I'm really excited to be launching a dedicated series to recommend the books I'm reading, cooking from or - as tends to be the case - furiously folding down corners (I know, sorry, my Dad hates that I do this). In the past fe ..read more

One of the things I love about baking in the winter is the plethora of tropical fruits that come to market. In late summer and early autumn we have a heady abundance of local fruits to chose from, but by mid-November, the gluts have finished and we must look further afield for brightness in the kitchen. Imported from Asian and the Middle East, passion fruits rich, almost yolky fruit offers a pukka-worthy tang of the acidic alongside its signature tropicana flavour. I love to pair passion fruit with milk chocolate, as the velvety texture of the cocoa counter-balances the sharpness beautifully ..read more

British summertime is officially over, it's coat weather and my lips are constantly chapped. Hello November and, more to the point, hello pudding season!  Predictably, I love this time of year. Comfort and contentment become the order of the day, and that's what lies at the heart of this recipe. Bread and butter pudding is such a classic, and can be amazing and disgusting with equal aplomb. I've had it both ways, and I've come to the conclusion that using an enriched bread such as panettone as the base of the pudding makes for a better texture. Panettone tends to start appearing in th ..read more