Did you know you can make sweets out of fungi? In this recipe I made wood ear/jelly ear fungi (Auricularia auricula-judae) into mushroom “jaffa cakes” . Weird and wonderful!

for our first fungi of the month I’ve chosen one many people have probably heard of: The wood ear, or jelly ear.

The reason? Well it was the first fungi I found this year on the second day of January so it felt very appropriate to share as the first fungi of the month.

There’s also very few fungi that are out and about this time of year, let alone edible ones. And the wood ear is pretty abundant, and leaves a smile on my face whenever I come across it.