Tag: 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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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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Best Red Velvet Cake with Macadamia Oil Recipe
It’s spring in Sydney the jacaranda trees are in bloom and as always in November it can go from searing heat to wild, wet and chilly within a day. In the scenic hot spots round the city tourists are causing traffic chaos as they stand in the middle of the road to try and get…
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The Easiest Apple Cake Recipe You’ll Love
I’m not a huge apple cake fan, I find the whole idea of apple cake a little humdrum. When someone tells me they’ve made an apple cake my heart doesn’t automatically leap, I mean there’s a limit to how amazing an apple cake can be… right? That was what I thought until I tried this…
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Lemon Yogurt Cake Recipe: Perfect Summer Afternoon Tea Dessert
I haven’t baked this cake for a couple of years until I baked it in a lull in the heat last week and again this week. Tart with yoghurt, fragrant with lemon zest, this is (if you can bear to turn on the oven) a perfect summer afternoon tea cake. It comes together quite easily…
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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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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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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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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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The Back Yard Lemon Tree 