Category: Cakes, Cookies, Biscuits and Sweet Things
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Paschalina koulourakia: Greek Easter biscuits
Easter is my favourite festival of the year. With our history as a British colonial outpost, Australians have long suffered through Christmas, maintaining northern hemisphere food traditions in the boiling heat of summer. The translation of a northern springtime Easter to a southern hemisphere autumn makes much more sense though. Eating loads of chocolate in…
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Delicious Graham Crackers: Homemade Recipe with Nutty Flavour
It is Australia Day and I suppose I should post something kind of typically Australian, but as a national day of celebration, I have my problems with Australia Day. When I was a kid, I can’t remember Australia Day being that big a deal: there was a holiday, but all the rah-rah drunken bogans wrapped…
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Quick and Easy Jam Tart Recipe for Pantry Clean-Out
I like jam but … I don’t really love it, so we always seem to have half-eaten jars of jam in the fridge hanging around for months, and unopened jars in the pantry lurking around for a few years. This tart uses up quite a bit of jam so it’s a good thing to have…
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Eggless Indian Savory Shortbread Recipe: Khara Biscuits for Tea Time
I love dunking biscuits in tea but I get a bit sick of sweet biscuits, so these Indian khara biscuits are perfect for a savoury dunking experience. Indian vegetarians don’t eat eggs – their baked goods tend to be ‘eggless’ but not vegan, as dairy is used. Some Indian cooks use vegetable shortening in these…
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Vegan Moustakouloura: Ancient Greek Grape-Must Cookies Recipe
I’ve recently come to the conclusion that the Greeks make the best cookies in the world. If you want to call them by their Greek names, they are real tongue twisters and difficult to pronounce, but they are simply the best. If you are a ‘dunker’ (as all our family are), they are great for…
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Addictive South Carolina Benne Wafers Recipe
When I was a teenager, I was slightly obsessed with the tiny rectangular sesame snaps you could buy from health food shops. I haven’t seen them around for years but I was quite excited when I discovered these sesame seed wafers from South Carolina, which seem to be a slightly less sugary, homemade version of…
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Homemade Oat Bread with Maple Syrup Recipe
When I was a road trip rural NSW a couple of weeks ago I got a bit over having bread and potatoes as my main carbohydrates but I did have one culinary revelation in my home town. One of the local cafes The Cuisine Cafe makes a house made bread that it serves with all…
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Tips for Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies
I’ve been in a bit of a dilemma about even posting this recipe. I mean, there must a zillion recipes for chocolate chip cookies on the internet, and does the world really need another one? This recipe also originally comes from the back of a Cadbury milk chocolate chip packet, so it’s not like it…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 