Fruit

• 1 Vitamin C smoothie
  Dish type: Smoothies Serves 3 Ingredients 200g or 2 large handfuls of fresh blackberries or a mix of blackberries and blueberries 600 ml or a 1pt beer glass of sweetened soya milk A pinch of ground...

• 2 Blueberry Bircher muesli
  Overnight oatmeal, dish type: breakfast Serves 6 Preparation time: 10 minutes First developed by a Swiss doctor back in the 1890’s, this easy, super healthy breakfast can be mixed together the...

• 3 Caramel poached blueberries with crème fraiche
  Dish type: Dessert, breakfast, snack Quick and easy Serves 4 Preparation time: 5 minutes Cooking time: 9-10 minutes We all love caramel oranges but caramel blueberries are even more delicious. Chill...

• 4 Berry healthy: the tiny superfoods that hold the key to a healthy heart
  Blueberries are little superfoods packed with more antioxidants than many other fruits and vegetables such as oranges, rocket and spinach. And eating three or more servings per week may help women...

• 5 Sloe-ly does it: Distill your own sloe gin at home
  With the festive season fast approaching, we've been thinking about stocking up our drinks cabinets with winter warmers. And it seems that sloe gin is just the tipple. Sloe berries grow on blackthorn...

• 6 It's crunch time for cooking with apples
  The apple may well be an everyday British fruit but that's not to say that they don't make for the perfect ingredient for delicious recipes and along them comes a number of health benefits. We've...

• 7 Cranberries: A girl's best fruity friend
  After featuring in countless scenes of the Sex and the City, the distinctive cosmopolitan cocktail made a comeback.  And its trademark pinkiness comes from none other than cranberry...

• 8 British cherries: Ripe for revival
  To celebrate the throes of cherry-picking season we have four delightful British cherry desserts. Traditional cherry orchards were phased out in the Sixties and by 2004 there were just a pitiful 960...

• 9 Strawberry Cream Victoria Sponge Cake
  Dish type: Cake Serves 4 people   Preparation time: 20 minutes Baking time: 20 minutes Named after Queen Victoria herself, there are few cakes that can beat this all-time classic recipe. You can...

• 10 Strawberry and Elderflower Sorbet
  Dish type: Dessert A wonderfully refreshing and decadent dessert for fancy summer parties. This can be made in advance then served scooped into pretty tea cups and decorated with tiny pansy or borage...

• 11 Chocolate Dipped Strawberries
  Dish type: Dessert The perfect supper party finale - homemade petite fours will wow your friends, but they are incredibly easy to make and fun to do with the kids.   Preparation time: 5-10...

• 12 Chocolate Dipped Strawberries
  Dish type: Dessert The perfect supper party finale - homemade petite fours will wow your friends, but they are incredibly easy to make and fun to do with the kids.   Preparation time: 5-10...

• 13 Berry Trifle Pots
  Dish type: Dessert You don’t need to worry about buying fancy glasses for this favourite dessert, just recycle glass jars with nice lids, small chocolate spread jars, jam or yogurt pots all work...

• 14 Blackberry jam
  Ingredients (Makes 6 jars) 1kg/2¼lb blackberries, fresh or frozen (defrosted if frozen) 1kg/2¼lb cooking apples, quartered, cored and peeled 300ml/½pt water 1.5kg/3lb...

• 15 steamed pudding, coconut, blackberry, blackberries, dessert, pudding, fruit
  Ingredients (Serves 4) 200g/7oz blackberries, fresh or frozen (defrosted if frozen) 50g/2oz caster sugar 1 tbsp cornflour 2 tbsp water For the sponge 100g/4oz butter, at room...

• 16 Alsace tart
  Ingredients (Serves 6) 400g/14oz shortcrust pastry 500g/1lb 2oz fresh apricots, washed, halved and the stones removed. Alternatively use apples, peeled, cored and sliced 50g/2oz plain flour...

• 17 Ingredient of the week: blood orange
  Smaller than your usual orange, the blood orange does not lack in taste what it lacks in size. Its deep crimson, almost sanguine colour is caused by the presence of anthocyanins – pigments frequently...

• 18 Gordon Ramsay's sherry-glazed figs with pine nut brittle
  Ingredients (Serves 4) 8 large figs 1-2 tbsp caster sugar 25g/1oz unsalted butter 125ml/4½fl oz Pedro Ximénez sherry Crème fraîche, to serve For...

• 19 Raspberry smash cheesecake
  Ingredients (Serves 8-12) For the base 180g digestive biscuits 70g butter, melted For the cream cheese filling 300g philadelphia 200g double cream 50g sugar 250g raspberries...

• 20 How to make Banoffee Caramelised Crisped Rice and Confit Grapefruit
  How to make Banoffee Caramelised Crisped Rice and Confit Grapefruit