Category: Cakes, Cookies, Biscuits and Sweet Things
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Jill Dupleix’s Upside-down Fruit Cake Recipe
I used to make this cake a lot years ago during the nineties. It’s from Jill Dupleix’s New Food which looks old and dated design-wise now but is filled with stonking good recipes which have stood the test of time. I think I made this cake for an afternoon tea on the day we heard…
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Magical Strawberry and Rhubarb Crumble | Quick and Delicious
There is something magical about the combination of strawberries and rhubarb. I recently went out for dinner and had a strawberry, rhubarb and ginger mocktail which was truly sensational. Strawberry and rhubarb jam is my all time favorite jam. A couple of months ago I made a stupendous strawberry and rhubarb pie to take to…
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Why British Hobnobs Are the Perfect Dunking Biscuit
A couple of months ago we went to a friend’s place for lunch and my son was introduced to the delights of chocolate coated hobnobs. It’s hard to believe it took twelve and a half years for my son to taste his first chocolate hobnob but once tasted you can never go back. He’s now…
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Laura Bush’s Texas Cowboy Cookies Recipe | Homemade American Dessert
Last week, one of my favorite people, a childhood family friend and adopted Aunty, died. My Aunty was old, frail, ready to go and join her husband in the great beyond but it was an occasion filled with the sadness of a passing of an era, the knowledge that you will never see or hear…
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Vegan Jam Drops Recipe from The Tassajara Cookbook
On the weekend, a friend and I went to visit an old friend in Bundanoon on the Southern Highlands. My friend spent a lot of time at the Tassajara Zen Centre in California in the early 2000s, so I thought I’d make these cookies from the Tassajara Cookbook as a nice nostalgic treat for us…
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Spelt flour, toasted coconut and sesame cookies
Last weekend, I helped my sister pack up her home of almost fifteen years. This wasn’t quite as bad as I expected: my sister’s house is due to be demolished in a couple of weeks and a new house built on the site, so everything left behind will just get bulldozed. There is something liberating…
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Special Occasion Homemade Oreo Cookies Recipe
I’ve made these oreos for years, ever since I first bookmarked the recipe on Smitten Kitchen in 2007. In all the time I’ve made oreos, I don’t think I’ve ever made a single batch, I’ve always doubled the recipe. These are party, special occasion cookies and a single batch doesn’t cut it when you have…
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Spicy Spelt and Olive Oil Pumpkin Bread Recipe | Breakfast Cake
Could pumpkin bread be the new banana bread? It seems to be replacing banana bread on the breakfast menus of Sydney’s best cafes. The first time I tried pumpkin bread was at my favorite Sydney cafe, West Juliett in Marrickville. I shared a slice with a friend as we on the way to the airport,…
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Simply Delicious Wholemeal Cinnamon Snacking Cake Recipe
I have a slightly ambivalent relationship with cake. I mean, I like cake well enough but I don’t love it. If I’m going to make something sweet, I prefer to bake some cookies because they have a longer shelf life and they don’t require the commitment of cake. Once you bake a cake, you really…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 