Sep 15, 2026 · 10 min · 9 segments
Reece Hignell is known for his legendary sweets. During his time on Masterchef he famously drew inspiration from beautiful, handwritten recipes from his Nan. He talks about her **Caramel Slice** on…
Rhys HignellGuest
Yumi StynesHost
So I thought we could talk about, like, a really simple way to get into baking, whether it is with our children and we wanna kind of gateway them into a lifelong love of making sweets in the kitchen, or people like me who just really want some easy wins, and I thought you would be great at providing maybe a slice recipe that we can actually achieve.
Now, my opinion is baking is the easiest because if you just follow the rules, it works.
I know some people don't like rules, but when we talk about other styles of cooking where the recipe's more fluid, that's where there's [laughs] in my opinion, more areas for mistakes.
Um, a lot of these slices came from my nan's market store, which is the inspiration to all my baking.
... topping on the top, the biscuit on the bottom, and that delicious condensed-
So I thought we could talk about, like, a really simple way to get into baking, whether it is with our children and we wanna kind of gateway them into a lifelong love of making sweets in the kitchen, or people like me who just really want some easy wins, and I thought you would be great at providing maybe a slice recipe that we can actually achieve.
Now, my opinion is baking is the easiest because if you just follow the rules, it works.
I know some people don't like rules, but when we talk about other styles of cooking where the recipe's more fluid, that's where there's [laughs] in my opinion, more areas for mistakes.
Um, a lot of these slices came from my nan's market store, which is the inspiration to all my baking.
... topping on the top, the biscuit on the bottom, and that delicious condensed-
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