Category: Cakes, Cookies, Biscuits and Sweet Things
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Warburtons Crumpets Recipe: Perfecting the Practically Perfect Crumpet
We are now in week 10 of lock down in Sydney, we’re hitting massive vaccination targets but we don’t seem to be any closer to the end of this thing. I feel like I’ve gone through most of the seven stages of grief over these ten weeks – denial, anger, depression, bargaining and finally to…
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Rhubarb Innovation: Savory and Sweet Roasted Recipe | The Backyard Lemon Tree
A few weeks ago a friend bought me a beautiful bunch of homegrown rhubarb from her garden on the Southern Highlands. I procrastinated for a couple of days about what to make in celebration of my rhubarb bounty – apple and rhubarb crumble or a rhubarb cake but in our house leftover deserts and cake…
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Strawberry Sheet Cake Recipe | Easy Homemade Dessert
Every August when there is a glut super cheap winter strawberries from Queensland I wonder if I should make use of this abundance by making a strawberry shortcake and I think yeah – nah because once you bake and assemble a strawberry shortcake it has to be eaten immediately and I need a bit of…
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Denver Chocolate Sheet Cake Recipe
About six months ago I became obsessed with Texas chocolate sheet cake and went on a hunt for the perfect recipe. The only problem? Texas sheet cake is baked in a half sheet pan, which is too large for the average Australian oven. I thought about getting a quarter sheet pan and halving the sheet…
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Pistachio & Date Nankatai: A Delicious Indo-British Biscuit Recipe
I love a good Indo-British food mash up. Nankatai are an exotic take on Scottish shortbread popularised by Parsi bakers in the wealthy trading city of Surat in Gujarat. They are yet another example of the rich multi-cultural food influences of the Indian subcontinent. Nankatai are eggless and so suitable for vegetarians which are in…
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Best brown butter chocolate toffee cookies recipe
] I first read about these cookies about eighteen months ago, via Twitter. The claim was these were the best chocolate chip cookies ever. Something which, given how obsessed the internet is with chocolate chip cookies, seemed like a pretty big claim to make. Unfortunately, the recipe required a chocolate toffee bar such as Daim,…
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Sunset’s Whole Orange Cake Adapted Recipe
I made this cake a few times towards the end of the summer when oranges were not that great but it was still cake that stood out in the crowd even with sub-optimal oranges. This is a whole orange cake, where the oranges are chopped and chucked pith and all into a food processor, whizzed…
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Delicious Saffron Fruit Loaf: A Must-Try Easter Recipe
I had big plans for these Easter holidays on the baking front but a combination of , sickness, an early Easter and unseasonably hot weather meant I conked out after baking a batch of Greek Easter biscuits and this fruit loaf. I baked my Easter biscuits on Thursday night while I binged watched Chef’s Table…
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Tasty Za’artar Biscuits with Cheddar and Parmesan Recipe
It’s hard to go wrong with cheese biscuits, they are invariably, insanely, delicious. But how could you go wrong, cheese biscuits are pretty much baked cheese with a bit of butter and a flour thrown in to hold it all together. These cheese biscuits also have the exotic twist of za’artar and sumac sprinkled on…
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