Quick fix

Classic Flavours – Cut a cross into the top of some seasonal figs to open up the flesh, drizzle with Regent’s Park honey and crumble over your favourite blue cheese and some chopped walnuts.

Start the day – Grate Chegworth Beauty apples over our award winning Sour Cherry Granola and serve with Brown Cow Organics Natural Yogurt and a drizzle of Womersley Golden Raspberry and Chilli vinegar.

Chocolate Fruit and Nut Rounds – the perfect handmade gift for your loved one: Using tempered chocolate (see How To), make 5cm discs of melted chocolate on baking parchment. As the chocolate is setting, push toasted pistachios, yellow raisins and cranberries into the pools of chocolate. Allow to set and serve with coffee after supper.

Take pancakes to the next level with some homemade flavoured sugars. Simply add your ingredients to a jar of sugar and leave for a week or two. Or, if time is tight then you can speed up the infusion by just whizzing the ingredients in a food processor for 30 seconds or so. Besides adorning your pancakes, flavoured sugars are great sprinkled on biscuits before baking in the oven, to dredge French toast, caramelise desserts under the grill, scatter over fresh fruit salads or fold into buttercreams. Our favourite flavour combinations included cardamon and mint, clementine and cinnamon, lemongrass and...