Fan-Tested Hairy Bikers Recipes
Fifteen minutes of mixing and twenty in the oven is all the Hairy Bikers rock cakes ask for. One bowl makes eight craggy buns full of sultanas and glacé cherries, at about 345 calories each. Si bakes these thinking of “the tiny house in Team Valley, near Gateshead, where my Auntie Hilda and Uncle George …
This Hairy Bikers pork and apple pie is a hot dinner under a shortcrust lid, eaten with a knife, fork and plenty of gravy. Perfect Pies serves eight from one 23cm tin, at about 800 calories a slice. “Pork and apple are a classic flavour combination and make a belter of a pie,” says the …
This Hairy Bikers pork pie recipe makes four proper raised pies with jelly, and the only special equipment is four jam jars. The hot water crust pastry shapes over the cold jars, sets hard in the fridge, then slips free ready to fill. “This is a proper traditional raised pork pie,” says Perfect Pies, “and …
This Hairy Bikers eccles cakes recipe comes from their Perfect Pies cookbook, and it makes 10 to 12 little currant pastries. Each one is about 250 calories, and the whole batch is done in 45 minutes. The same recipe also appears word for word in their Mums Know Best book, so they clearly trust it. …
Wrapped in pleated paper and foil, twisted at the ends like a Christmas cracker, the Hairy Bikers jam roly poly bakes inside its own parcel. What comes out is a risen suet sponge with jam spiralled through every slice. British Classics keeps it to “simple store-cupboard ingredients”, just flour, suet, sugar, milk and jam. Si …
The Hairy Bikers cheesy custard tarts are small savoury bakes with Parmesan in the pastry and Gruyère in the filling. Brilliant Bakes designed them for handing round at parties, so the sweetness is swapped for garlic, thyme and a pinch of cayenne. Brilliant Bakes calls them “a real treat for those who don’t have a …
A custard tart is the plainest bake in the British repertoire, and the Hairy Bikers custard tart keeps it that way on purpose. Crisp pastry, silky vanilla cream and a roof of grated nutmeg, and nothing else gets in. Brilliant Bakes jokes that it is “much too good for throwing at anybody”, a wink at …
Rhubarb and custard usually means a bowl and a jug, but this Hairy Bikers rhubarb and custard tart rebuilds the pairing in pastry. Each of the eight slices carries about 590 calories from British Classics, and the fridge handles most of the four and a half hours. The book calls this “a tart to be …
Proper rice pudding needs a brown skin on top, and this Hairy Bikers recipe grows one in the oven. Brilliant Bakes gives it two and a half hours at low heat, so six servings cost about 370 calories and almost no effort. Si writes that his mam “made proper rice pudding like this, always with …
Four egg whites become a crisp shell with a soft middle in this Hairy Bikers pavlova, so the texture is the whole point. Mums Still Know Best serves six with cream and berries, at about 530 calories in two and a half hours. “Is it from New Zealand? Is it from Australia? Who cares? It …