Valentine’s at home 💕
This is what love looks like at my table. Champagne, heart shaped bakes, chocolate everything and flowers everywhere! Valentines doesn’t need a restaurant… just lots of love, obviously! And don’t forget the gift guide. 1. The Valentine’s table 2. The Valentines gift collage: everyone is tagged on the image 3. 🍪 Our LIMITED EDITION Valentine’s cookies — raspberry stuffed, available this week ONLY. Link in bio to order before they’re gone 4. Swirled hearts on brownies - my viral recipe but make it Valentines, so simple, so pretty 5. Heart-shaped smoked salmon sandwiches, just some inspiration for you, & mille-feuille with hearts 6. Chocolate mousse swirled with a cherry on top 7. Heart-shaped Bundt with a hidden heart inside - recipe from my book BUNDT 8. White chocolate dipped strawberries with pistachios 9. The beautiful fabric behind the collage from @ottolinedevries
Tablecloth and wallpaper by @lewisandwood 💕
All recipes will be on melathome.co.uk this week.
What are you baking for Valentine’s? Tell me below 👇
The Chalet
No skis. No snow. I grew up in Kitzbühel 🇦🇹 so if like me you’re missing the mountain vibes, here’s a little alpine escape you can create wherever you are.
All the cosy, nostalgic alpine energy of hot chocolates, reindeers and kaiserschmarren (if you know, you know) - but make it Mel at Home.
Details for each image below with recipes dropping on Stories all week 🎿❄️🏔️
1. A warm welcome
2. The ultimate indulgent hot chocolate
3. Daphne does alpine
4. Hahnenkamm views forever
6. Chocolate and vanilla marble Bundt, a classic in every konditorei
7. Kaiserschmarren - chopped pancake heaven
8. Arthur does alpine
9. The end
It’s suddenly freezing and I am longing to get cosy.
1. Upside Down Brown Butter Pear Maple and Rosemary from @countrylifemagazine Really lovely for when it’s cold and it makes your kitchen smell like heaven! Find the recipe in my stories and thereafter in highlights.
2. Cosy moments at home that involve tea, cookies and ‘what I’m reading’ - really enjoying this book by @eviewoods.author and if you’re a foodie it has lots of really interesting foodie references. I can’t wait to read some more in a hot bath later - magnesium salts and @neomwellbeing bubbles will be joining me.
3. Hello from me and Daphne, wearing my new @sezane cardigan that we’re both obsessed with, she loves snuggling up on it when it’s on my bedroom chair 🙈
4. So love the pretty buttons on my @sezane cardigan, the ultimate cosy yet glam moment.
The skylights in my kitchen make it never quite reach cosy but my study is the ultimate in snuggly - I’ll tidy it up and give you look tomorrow.
How are you keeping cosy? 🩵
Photoshoot in Scotland with my @byan.concept cape coat
Yes, 😝 couldn’t resist leaning into the AI puppy trend but thought I’d balance it with some real life comfort food, country days and my real dogs…
Hope you’re having a wonderful Sunday! ♥️
1. Scottish AI shoot 😝
2. The @byan.concept coat that I want (and I think Santa might have under the tree for me)
3. Lilybee - my daughter - in her tweeds @lilybeegwynjones
4. Deliciously stuffed pasta shells for @countrylifemagazine
5. A winter table - also for @countrylifemagazine
6. Mushroom and chorizo stroganoff - an all time favourite and the ultimate comfort food DM me for the link
7. Arthur - and yes, he’s allowed on my bed 🤦♀️
8. Daphne - my sweet little rescue who still gives me side eye
🍏 Apple recipes past and present!
Some of my favourite Apple recipes from Country Life over the years. I can’t believe my first column was in 2013. Some of my early photography makes me cringe 😬 so I didn’t include those!
1. Apple Cake with miso caramel
2. Apple orchard
3. Apple Torta della Nonna - honestly one of the most delicious apple recipes I’ve created - photographed on classic ‘Bowood’ fabric from @colefaxandfowler
4. In the apple orchard wearing my ikat jacket from @thebluedoor.131
5. Apple and blackberry muffins on Bennison fabric that is so beautiful but only a tiny bit is showing
6. Normandy chicken from the cover of the Country Life ‘bookazine’
7. Loving apples…
Find the recipes linked in my bio or go to /author/melaniejohnson
This time last week…
We hosted a Macmillan Coffee Morning at @plainenglishdesign Five years ago I was in the middle of cancer treatment — today I’m so grateful to be able to gather, share cake and raise money for a cause that means so much to so many.
Thank you for coming! 💚
🎥 @mypindrops
#macmillancoffeemorning
This recipe is nothing Bundt the best! Baker Melanie Johnson (@melathomeltd ) joins host @jessiesheehanbakes on the latest episode of She’s My Cherry Pie to discuss her Chocolate & Vanilla Marble Bundt with Milk Chocolate Glaze from her book, “Bundt: From Everyday Bakes to Fabulous Celebration Cakes.”
If you’ve ever wondered the secrets to a good Bundt cake, listen to this episode on @apple , @spotify , @youtube , or wherever you get your podcasts! You can find Melanie’s recipe on cherrybombe.com.
📸 @melathomeltd
On the latest episode of She’s My Cherry Pie, it’s Bundt-cake aficionado, baker, and writer Melanie Johnson. Melanie is a columnist at @countrylifemagazine and the author of “Bundt: From Everyday Bakes to Fabulous Celebration Cakes.” 🎂
@melathomeltd chats with host @jessiesheehanbakes about her lifelong love of Bundt cakes and why they’re the perfect baked good for beginner bakers. She also walks Jessie through her Easiest Chocolate & Vanilla Marble Bundt with Milk Chocolate Glaze recipe.
Listen to this episode on @apple , @spotify , @youtube , or wherever you get your podcasts. Thank you to @nordicwareusa for their support! 💕
You can find Melanie’s recipe and show transcripts at cherrybombe.com.
To celebrate the Chelsea Flower Show, I’m gifting a limited-edition cookie with the first 20 orders next week!
Rose, pistachio and white chocolate — soft, floral, and completely delicious.
Just a little something from me to you,
wrapped with love to mark the prettiest week of the year.
Swipe through to see the flavours, the flowers, the floral inspiration…
1. A little floral shopping list…
The dress — @farmrio
The cardigan — @boden
The earrings — @zara
The dreamiest flowers — @nikkitibbleswildatheart
The rose candle — @diptyque
The frilled cushion — @sosouk
The silk quilt of dreams — @gingerlilylondon
The cake — @peggyporschenofficial
Rose chocolate — @fortnums
Elizabethan Rose scent — @penhaligons
Faux hydrangeas — @oka
The background fabric — @bennisonlondon@bennisonny
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2. Daphne at home. 😝
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3. Strawberry & chamomile cake — baked for my @countrylifemagazine column.
Recipe’s in my bio if you fancy making it this weekend.
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4. Me and the team
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5. Quick pit stop at the @prada café in @harrods — the coffee was perfection and yes, the pistachio cake really was £17.25.
(But it was divine.) #gifted
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6. Cookie boxes heading out this week —
the first 20 orders will have a floral cookie tucked inside.
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7. And this beautiful hollyhock fabric…
@bennisonlondon@bennisonny forever my favourites.
8. Chelsea roses 🌸
Lately…
1. Gooseberry and Elderflower Tiramisu — find the recipe in this weeks @countrylifemagazine 🦊
2. Cotswolds perfection, obviously 🌳
3. Dig in
4. Have a bite 👄
5. Me picking apple blossom — for something coming soon 🍏
6. Arthur in my bed - anyone who says they have a problem with that is getting blocked 🤪😂
7. Isn’t she so pretty… 🌸
8. As butter yellow is having a moment… yellow roses! 💛
9. And the actual recipe in print in Country Life…
Thanks for stopping by, love Mel 💝
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