Challah French Toast

Challah French Toast Recipe

September 15, 2023

Loaves of bread have been central to religious practices for millennia, and in Jewish traditions, making challah at home became a way of connecting to the rituals that took place in the temple. Traditionally, challah was a loaf of bread beautifully enhanced to celebrate Rosh Hashanah, sweetened with sugar and enriched with all that glorious […]

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Apple Cake

Apple Cake Recipe

September 13, 2023

Apples and honey are, to many, the ultimate flavours of Rosh Hashanah – a familiar and soul-warming embrace of flavours that nod lovingly to the Jewish culinary culture. Spilling with sugar-coated fruit, this delightfully dense cake is simple enough to make at home. It can be served fresh and hot from the oven, or kept […]

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Honey Cake

Honey Cake Recipe

September 13, 2023

An autumn staple at GAIL’s and a beloved Rosh Hashanah treat. Rich, decadent and once a precious entity, during Rosh Hashana honey is symbolic of hope for a sweet new year. We make our honey cake dense, sticky and dark, topped with dried blue cornflower petals. These aren’t necessary, of course – just an extra […]

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Crisps Cookies

The Crispiest Cookies

August 17, 2023

There aren’t many rules to our potato crisp and white chocolate cookies – the inspiration comes from American ‘everything but the kitchen sink’ cookies, made with, well, just about anything – but we do insist on one thing: using Two Farmer crisps. We also added white Islands Chocolate buttons with a high cocoa solids percentage […]

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GAIL’s Cinnamon Bun Crisp 

March 31, 2022

We believe in making good quality products, and in finding ways to make these products go further and waste less. It’s unusual for a cinnamon bun to stick around but why not champion a way to extend the pleasure of this special treat?   These crisps are amazing with our House Blend espresso, a scoop of […]

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