Bake with Lucie - March 2025 | Coronation Gardens

Spring into spring with these three tempting recipes from the WI!

Bake with Lucie - March 2025

Hello March and hello spring! How wonderful is it to be able to say we are in the spring months with the first official day of spring being Thursday 20th March? This month I have got some more fabulously seasonal and yummy recipes for you that are all tailored for Mother’s Day. Me and my lovely mum chose these recipes together a few weeks ago and had great fun making them together.

My first recipe is my delicious homemade raspberry curd. Now I know raspberries aren’t in season until the summer, but like me you may have raspberries in your freezer from last year, so that makes it a leftover recipe as well as using fruits that were in season last year. This raspberry curd is perfect to go in my lemon drizzle loaf cake. Delicious!

My second recipe is my Mother’s Day raspberry and lemon drizzle loaf cake. Your homemade raspberry curd will go perfectly with this drizzle cake and it is so unbelievably yummy! Perfect for a Mother’s Day afternoon tea treat!

My third recipe is my cinnamon bramley apple meringue pudding. Bramley apples are in season this month so this recipe is perfectly seasonal and oh so delicious.

Crisp apples meet a creamy, cinnamon, vanilla custard like filling, topped off with fluffy toasted meringue. Divine! This recipe is quite sweet because of the condensed milk so serving it with a drizzle of raspberry or mango and passionfruit coulis helps cut through the sweetness and makes it even more delicious.

Don’t forget you can share your photos of your wonderful creations on the WI Learning Hub website and share your thoughts on my recipes and ask any questions you may have.

I can’t wait to spoil my lovely mum on Mother’s Day and Happy Mother’s Day to you all. I hope you all have a wonderful Mothering Sunday to those that celebrate. Happy baking and I hope you enjoy my recipes. Don’t forget the clocks go forward on Sunday 30th March which means it really will feel like springtime!

Raspberry curd

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Raspberry and lemon drizzle loaf cake

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Cinnamon apple meringue pudding

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Hi, I’m Lucie and it’s so very lovely to meet you. I’m your food and cookery baker, maker and writer and I love creating recipes that are new, exciting, seasonal and made with home grown ingredients for you all. I am 23 years old and I live in Hampshire with my lovely mum and our beautiful cats.

During my childhood I was brought up around food as my mum was a cookery teacher, (now French teacher), for schools and as soon as I was able, I had a wooden spoon in my hands. Me and my mum have always been close and cooking with her is one of my favourite things. My dad was a very good cook too but he sadly passed away from dementia when I was 8 years old. I have 2 sisters but they weren’t too interested in cooking so me and mum would spend hours in the kitchen baking and creating together.

Still to this day me and mum spend a good few hours every week shopping for ingredients and then cooking delicious things together. I think time spent cooking as a family is really important, it is wonderful to simply spend time with the ones you love and for an opportunity to develop new skills. I am part Scottish and Italian so home cooked food is a massive part of my family just as it is in the WI. Cookery is very important in the WI. Whether its jam making or cake baking it is one of the things that we all associated with the WI. My Grandmother and Godmother were both part of the same WI as me and mum, so it really is a family affair.

The WI is a wonderful community of people who join together with a collective view. Togetherness to learn and develop new skills and create a community that welcomes all. The WI is a wonderful way to meet new people and create long and lasting friendships. I really do love creating and baking for you all and I hope you enjoy my recipes and have as much fun making them as I do.