About Annie Rigg

Annie Rigg

Annie Rigg is the best-selling author of more than 10 cookbooks, including her most recent titles, Gifts from the Kitchen, Decorated Gingerbread, Holiday Cupcakes, and Small Plates. Annie also is a contributor to many UK magazines, including Waitrose Kitchen, Delicious, Olive, Good Food, Easy Living and Red Magazine. She splits her time between London and Warwickshire, her faithful Jack Russell, Mungo, always by her side. @annierigg

A plum kuchen on a sheet of parchment with three slices cut from it and a collection of forks, a spoon, and two coffee cups nearby.

Plum Kuchen

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Breakfast. Brunch. Dessert. Midnight nosh. Heck, there’s no time of day or night that we don’t welcome this classic plum kuchen.

Easy Jewish Hanukkah doughnuts and doughnut holes covered with sugar, on a metal cookie sheet.

Easy Jewish Hanukkah Doughnuts

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Don’t let the name mislead you. These doughnuts are cause for celebration in and of themselves, regardless of one’s occasion or denomination.

Pine nut brittle broken into irregular pieces on a large brown tray.

Pine Nut Brittle

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Crunchy, sweet, salty, buttery, and nutty. It comes together in 30 minutes, making it practical to toss together batch after batch for gifts if you get carried away with sampling.

Halloween meringue bones piled on a paper plate and scattered on a black cobweb tablecloth beside the plate.

Halloween Meringue Bones

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What’s spookier than a skeleton? Disembodied bones. Although these meringue bones are surprisingly and sweetly irresistible.

5 unwrapped squares of apple cider caramels beside a pile of wrapped caramels.

Apple Cider Caramels

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The 8th wonder of the world? These insanely satiating caramels are made simply with apple cider, sugar, and spice.

A frozen tub of plum sorbet, with a scoop of sorbet and some sugar cookies lying beside it.

Plum Sorbet

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This plum sorbet is going to change your late-summer fruit strategy. And you don’t even need an ice cream maker. Now that’s easy and elegant.

A slow roasted lamb shoulder in an oval cast iron dish with orange wedges.

Slow Roasted Lamb

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This slow roasted lamb shoulder coaxes the meat to fall-apart tenderness in the oven while infusing it with the pervasive aroma and flavor of orange, chile, and honey.

Four cupcakes with chocolate icing, topped with chocolate wizard hats.

Wizards’ Hats Cupcakes

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These inspired Halloween wizards’ hats are a simple assembly job made from cupcakes, frosting, sugar cones, sprinkles, and candy. Inspired by Dumbledore. Loved by all.