BLACK BEAN CHOCOLATE CAKE

A cake for that one time I stopped drawing because I was filling paper with weird shapes and not trees and the sun and the birds; for the novel I wrote when I was eight; for the most terrible nightmares of snakes and monsters (and for waking up from them on command); for the curliest hair; for not listening to my mum; for having thought for half a second that someone who undervalues invisibility could be a better version of me; a cake for master plans and for not having one; for making someone coffee without a reason, for things that happen in due course, for illusions, robots, badgers, business cards, birthday cards, ellipses.

A cake for James and me.

GLUTEN-FREE CHOCOLATE CHIP MUFFINS

This one is my first gluten-free Muffin Sunday. Not only have I completely ignored the occasion for a billion Sundays in a row, but also, when I finally felt inspired to produce some muffin goodness, American airport security tried really hard to wreck the party. The story goes like this. I go on my daily mad shopping spree to Whole Foods Market in New York. I run to the flour section (<3). I lay my eyes on this pack of coconut flour. Pack of coconut flour goes in my suitcase when I fly back to London. Pack of coconut flour looks dangerously similar to pack of cocaine. Airport security get dangerously suspicious. Airport security open my suitcase. I collect an unlocked suitcase and fear for the safety of pack of coconut flour. Pack of coconut flour is actually fine and I can bake coconut flour muffins for Muffin Sunday.

So this overwhelmingly exciting story is to say that we should all be very grateful for this Muffin Sunday. And that you should just get coconut flour off the internet if you want to coconut-flour-muffin your life away. But all is well that ends well and I will now enjoy my muffins that almost never happened and they’re the best and you should too.

VANILLA CHIA PUDDING

When life makes you feel like a diseased pigeon, fight back with badass yummy superfood pudding. Amen.