This is a recipe I grew up eating; that scented my childhood home through winter weekends and one that was always enjoyed with relish. As the days grew cold earlier this month, I rang Mum for a chat and asked her for this recipe. What she told me wasn’t a recipe in the traditional sense […]
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Sticky Date Muffins with Warm Toffee Sauce
One cold, rainy weekend (yes, they do happen in Brisbane), I was browsing online for something sweet and comforting to make using only what I had in the pantry. I came across this recipe for sticky toffee muffins and was enticed immediately. Easy to put together, though they do make a few dishes, these were […]
Honey Jumbles by Merle Parish
The more I read Merle’s Kitchen, the more enamoured I am with her recipes and her no-nonsense writing style. These biscuits jumped out at me, with my growing taste for honey (in my tea, on my toast, on my cereal to name but a few occasions!). As always with Merle’s recipes, these are a delight. […]
Soft Gingerbread Cake
Over the recent long weekend, I had a little extra time on my hands and decided to finally try a recipe from a book I have had for quite a while. Bought for me by my mother, as a humorous gift, the book is called Cakes Men Like and it is a collection of “50 […]
Hummingbird Cake
With such a lovely name, this is a cake for the tropics. Packed with pineapple, banana and coconut; topped with a cream cheese icing, it is a great cake to make for any occasion but especially good for afternoon tea on a sunny day. If you have a couple of blackened bananas you are thinking […]
3 Milks Cake or Pastel de Tres Leche
This was a cake made purely out of curiosity because I honestly could not imagine what it would taste like or that the 600ml of milk would actually soak in to such a small cake. In origin, it is a fairly recent Latin American celebration cake. Essentially, it creates a very soggy, sweet cake – […]
Update: Peanut Butter & Jam Cupcakes
I finally got a chance to re-make these delicious cupcakes and this time I was sure to fill them with jam once they cooled. I also got to garnish them with a darling raspberry jube and they were a great success. I don’t often re-visit cupcake recipes, there are so many to try, but these […]
Pinwheel Biscuits by Mary Berry
Apparently young children can bake with greater accuracy than I can. Mary Berry’s pinwheel biscuit recipe is prefaced by the statement that ‘Young children can easily make these – under supervision of course (from her Baking Bible)’. Perhaps I need more supervision when I bake! My biscuits were, of course delicious, but they weren’t the […]
Churros Y Chocolate from Nigella Lawson
Nigella’s churro recipe is, she claims, the result of much research and recipe testing. Many churro recipes available online have eggs, butter and sugar in the dough but I went with Nigella’s recipe (published in Kitchen) because the dough was fairly frugal in it’s ingredients and I felt the chocolate sauce and cinnamon rolling sugar would […]
Apple Crumble French Toast at Cafe Conti
I don’t get out for breakfast very often but, when I do, I love to try something new or something I wouldn’t make for myself at home. As most cafes have a standard breakfast menu, poached eggs on toast with mushrooms is my standard selection. Since moving to the north side of Brisbane earlier this year, […]
A Tale of Two Kitchens 