Category: Cakes, Cookies, Biscuits and Sweet Things
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Sydney Summer Treat: Mango Sago with Coconut Cream Recipe
February is strange month in Sydney – everybody is back at school and work after the summer holidays but it is a month that is often hotter and more humid than January. There’s a sense of lingering resentment amongst people, the holidays are over but it’s still too hot to fully adjust back to the…
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Delicious Baked Peach and Strawberry Crumble
Recently, my friend Alice posted a recipe for a stone fruit skillet streusel pie, which looked so awesome that for the last few days, all I’ve been dreaming about is making that pie. I mean it’s an absolute winner, with a mix of stone fruit, a cornmeal pastry pie crust with a crumble topping –…
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Ina Garten’s Chocolate Cake Recipe with Swiss Buttercream
In the month before I started this blog, just over a year ago, I went on a major celebration cake making bender, starting with a friend’s wedding cake, then my niece’s 21st birthday cake, followed by a huge triple-layer welcome home cake for another friend and ending with my son’s ninth birthday cake. During this…
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Things to bake after a firestorm: Date and walnut rolls
Last Thursday morning, I posted a recipe for a snowpea, almond mint and blood orange salad and I wrote that it was the perfect thing to eat when recovering from the heat of a potentially catastrophic fire day, like the day we experienced on the previous Thursday. When I posted this in the morning it…
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Easy Chocolate Cupcake Recipe with Buttermilk and Creamy Brown Sugar Icing
Last Thursday night, I had to make a quick batch of chocolate cupcakes for a cake stall at my son’s school on Friday morning. After a swimming lesson and a trip to the shops, it was past six o’clock before we got home and I started dinner. My son had requested chocolate cupcakes so I…
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Wholesome Brown Sugar Oat Biscuits Recipe
Just over a week ago, a friend had her baby four weeks early, which threw everyone around her into a bit of a spin: nobody was prepared for such an early arrival. For my first official visit to see the baby at home, I rushed out and bought a present, dragged a loaf of banana…
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Irresistible Chocolate Chip Sour Cream Coffee Cake Recipe
I’ve been making this cake for years now, ever since I first saw it on the world’s most famous food blog, Smitten Kitchen, in 2006. It is Deb Perelman’s mother’s recipe and Deb claims it may be one of the main reasons her husband married her. This, I can believe, because this cake is worth…
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Simple French Chocolate Loaf Cake Recipe
I’m kind of obsessed with loaf cakes at the moment. They have a nice homey, everyday quality that says it doesn’t have to be a special occasion for you to still eat cake. Because, there are times (like in the middle of winter) when it’s almost necessary for your mental health to eat cake. If…
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Homemade Swedish Ginger Thins Recipe
A few weeks ago, I came across a post from The Kitchn about the Scandanavian tradition of serving thin gingersnap biscuits with blue cheese as an appetiser. As I have a passion for both gingersnaps and blue cheese, this seemed like an irresistibly delicious idea. I could have just gone to the supermarket and bought…
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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 