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Sophie's Slice

A Slice of Deliciousness! Uni of Edinburgh student sharing easy recipes for all diets (including lots of sweet treats)! Seasonal Pastry Chef at Gleneagles Hotel.

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10/09/2026

Recent Cheffing 🧡

A selection of yummy things I’ve made lately…

-Chocolate cake, burnt honey yogurt and cardamom chantilly and an orange mixed berry compote. My all time favourite chocolate sponge recipe that I’ve been making for years and is ALWAYS delicious but tbh this might be my favourite icing combo yet 😏
-Chilli crisp, spring onion, soy sauce and corn focaccia. Merged a couple different recipes and tried coil folds with an 85% hydration for the first time here. Think it needed a tad longer on the final prove but very happy overall and will definitely become my new recipe. Also this flavour was 🌶️😮‍💨
-BTS of some new petit four development at Ikoyi
-Smashed cucumber, sweet potato, harissa chicken salad with a herb yogurt
-Brothy butter beans loaded with some gorgeous chard and courgettes I picked myself at Bandstand Beds Packed with Parmesan, lemon and herbs and perfect with jammy eggs and August Bakery baguette for dipping.
-A mini version of the chocolate cake because what other solution is there when you have too much cake batter 👀
-A cross section of the very sexy petit fours. Suya ganache, pumpkin seed praline and sea buckthorn jelly.
-Peach, mozzarella and tomato panzanella. The perfect summers lunch 😎
-Another bts from ikoyi. Genoise layered cake with hazelnut praline, lavender shortbread, fig sumac jam, plum kernel Swiss meringue buttercream and fresh plums

Love Sophie 🧡

28/06/2026

Strawberry Tart 🧡

The only acceptable reason to turn your oven on in this heat wave!

Crispy pastry, nutty frangipane, jammy baked strawberries, silky crème diplomat, a mountain of fresh strawberries and a glistening glaze. Basically summer in a slice and deceivingly easy to make. Full recipe on my Substack link in my bio 😏

Love Sophie 🧡

24/06/2026

Paris Food Highlights🧡

My first trip to Paris (I know shocking given I’m a pastry chef 🙃) did not disappoint! Even though the main goal of the trip was sight seeing we of course managed to make time for some delicious food. Here’s the highlights…

- .paris The BEST croissant I have ever had. The perfect balance of crispy and flakey but also light and buttery. I inhaled it and only wish I had time to go back to try some of their other creations🥲
- Harrods food hall but 100x better. The kind of place I could have spent hours and my life savings in. But we were sensible and just picked up some goodies for a picnic in The Luxembourg Gardens. The elite girl dinner if you ask me 😮‍💨
- Bouillon Chartier Yes a bit touristy but an institution and so much fun. Crazy busy, waiters running everywhere and €3.50 glasses of w**e that are actually a mini carafe they’re so big! But importantly the food was actually great - in particular the ile flottante!
- .o.l.d.e.r.o.l Ice cream and w**e - need I say anymore! The olive oil ice cream had a lovely peppery flavour and rich silky texture. Washed down with a red pet nat for the perfect girlie evening!
- Boulangerie Utopie Another sensational boulangerie. The pain au rasin and ham and cheese pain suisse were both excellent! Super crispy and flakey! In fact so good we went back to try a sandwich which was also top tier.
- Brasserie Dubillot (Part of the La Nouvelle Garde group). This was another very affordable and delicious classic French brasserie! Think french onion soup, radishes with flavoured butter, steak tartare, red w**e 🫠
- Boulangerie La Parisienne Winner of the 2025 baguette of the year award it was only right I tried it out. Admittedly I didn’t get a classic baguette but a very delicious sandwich for the Eurostar home.
- Shop. Did I make a special journey and spend €27 on a very small jar of mustard? Yes! Would Ido it again? 100%! Delicious hand pumped mustard in a gorgeous ceramic jar great value if you ask me 😂

Also a big thank you to my wonderful tour guide Becca Marriner . Until the next time Paris 🥐

Love Sophie 🧡

18/05/2026

Farewell Claridges 🧡

When 22 months comes to an end…

It’s been 2 weeks since I left Claridges Pastry team (although I still feel like I am on holiday and will be going back tomorrow). I am ready and so excited to start a new adventure (after a nice bit of time off of course 😉).

Claridges was an amazing experience, learning opportunity and pretty much my life for almost 2 years. And whilst it definitely wasn’t all roses and there were LOTS of tears. It will always be a period I will look back on fondly, be grateful for and proud of. I learnt so much, made amazing life long friends and got to experience incredible luxury hotels.

To think that I started this instagram one morning in lockdown as a sad engineering student who just loved food. Thinking nobody would follow me, care about my recipes or ever get to try my food. And now I can say I worked at one of the world’s best hotels as a pastry chef - it really is a strange full circle moment 😭. And also probably the moment I should thank everyone - my coworkers and now amazing friends from Claridges (special mention to for everything 🫶🏻), my family and friends, for giving me such a wonderful opportunity and I guess you guys for following my page and giving me the confidence to follow my dreams.

So as if this wasn’t sappy enough I have written a wee Substack on my time at Claridges. Would love you guys to give it a read. Link in my bio…

Love Sophie 🧡

22/03/2026

A Love Letter To Edinburgh 🧡

Some people call Disneyland the happiest place on earth… for me it’s Edinburgh. A magical city that holds so many memories and will always feel like home. But importantly for you guys also has (what I will argue to anyone) the best food and drink scene! So here are my highlights from my recent visit…

Featuring - a new opening from the team behind ( my favourite pub in the city) that served up some of the best food I’ve had in a long long time. They also highlighted Scottish produce and the foh showed true Scottish hospitality - honestly faultless! Then there was the viral hand pulled noodles from , a true Scottish breakfast from , fun seasonal ice cream from and an incredible set lunch menu from . Not to forget all the great coffee and drinks offerings from 🫠

Genuinely this city has it all - I didn’t even touch base on the museum, scenery and touristy things we did. But trust me when I say it is a city everyone will fall in love with! Full blog post over on Substack (link in my bio 😉) please go give it a read if really appreciate it🫶🏻

Love Sophie 🧡

08/03/2026

Exploring London Via Sweet Treats 🧡

London is an amazing city. And yes I say this as someone who lives here and often hates it - the cost, busy rush hour tubes, sense of isolation… but despite all of this nobody can deny how great a place it is. There are so many different areas, all with a unique personality, parks and great food spots to discover. My favourite way to remind myself of this is to have a solo day out exploring an area fuelled by coffee and a sweet treat (I am a pastry chef after all) 😉

So I’ve complied a little list of my favourite routes. Based around a sweet treat they will take to through the city’s beautiful parks, independent shops and often ending with a cheeky drink. And with spring finally starting to appear (all be it very slowly) it seemed like the perfect time to share these with you guys because the London sun does make everything 100x better.

The full itineraries are in my latest Substack post (link in my bio) and feature:
- via London Fields/ Hackney
- via Herne Hill/ Brockwell Park
- .london via Clissold Park/ Stoke Newington
- via Regents or St James Park
- via Knightsbridge/ Hyde Park

Within the post I’ve also mentioned a few of my favourite independent shops, pubs and bars to visit whilst on these days out. Including .ldn

Please go give it a wee read and let me know your favourite spots!
Love Sophie 🧡

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