I love the Victoria Sponge Cake. There is something so simple, yet so alluring about it. A light, lovely, sponge cake filled with jam, fruit and cream is a perfect reminder of summer. The first recipe I ever made from Nigella Lawson’s How to be a Domestic Goddess, was the Victoria Sponge. I fell in […]
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Autumnal Birthday Cake
I recently turned 25; knowing I’d like to make a cake for my family, I thought it was the perfect opportunity to make the Autumnal Birthday Cake from How to be a Domestic Goddess. This cake looks inviting, however it required 475ml of maple syrup. In Australia maple syrup costs over $8.00 for 250ml so […]
Cocoa Apple Cake
Sometimes you just need to bake. This week wasn’t ideal; I wasn’t well, and I was coming home from work frustrated and tired. I had also been waiting impatiently to try out my new Nordic Ware Heritage Bundt Tin. You may also remember Alex very generously gave me the Nordic Ware Fleur de Lis Bundt […]
Oatmeal Cookies from Merle Parrish
I decided to make these biscuits after searching for a good recipe to use up some of the many oats I have leftover from making ANZAC biscuits in April. I love the chewy texture oats give to biscuits and slices and this recipe uses only basic ingredients yet is full of flavour. These are a […]
Yorkshire Gingernut Biscuits from Mary Berry
I love gingernut biscuits; the spicy heat from the ginger is a very welcome addition to an otherwise simple biscuit to accompany my morning cup of tea. Perhaps originating from Yorkshire, given the title, they do seem very English and so Mary Berry’s recipe seemed a good place to start.
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 […]
Raspberry Buns
On the first Saturday in May, my friend Belinda and I made the small trip up to Clunes in country Victoria. The Clunes Book Town Festival celebrates books, and this year the festival attracted around 30 second hand book stores. As an avid reader and vintage cookbook collector, I was more than a little excited with […]
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 […]
A Tale of Two Kitchens 