Tag: cake
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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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Alice’s Pear, Pistachio and Chocolate Cake Recipe | Simple and Delicious
My friend Alice bakes the best cakes. This pear, pistachio and chocolate cake was one of the first cakes she baked for me when we became friends. I remember when I first tasted it and I paused for a long moment in stunned silence before blurting out something along the lines of… THIS CAKE… is……
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Ina Garten’s Lemon and Buttermilk Pound Cake Recipe
Although I do not really consider myself much of a cake cook, I do bake cakes – because if you’re going to eat cake, it might as well be homemade. Everyone needs a ‘slam dunk’, great lemon cake in their repertoire and this is mine because it manages to strike the perfect balance between lemony…
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David Herbert’s Chocolate Fudge Cake Recipe: Light and Velvety
I not really a great cake baker. In fact, I find the whole process of a baking a cake a bit of a bother. Cake making is not something where you can just wing it; you really have to get the ratios right and that means following a recipe. You have to gather and measure…
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Moist and Light Greek Yoghurt Cake with Lemon Curd
When a friend said she was going to throw a small surprise party for her husband’s fiftieth birthday – I offered to make the cake. Last October just before I started this blog I had a whole run of making celebration cakes – starting with friend’ s two tier wedding cake and ending with my…
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Perfect Banana Bread Recipe: Easy and Delicious
What is it about Sydney-siders and banana bread? I think we are slightly obsessed by it. It’s such an unprepossessing looking cake. That’s what it really is – cake – but it’s been cunningly renamed as a bread so we can feel okay about ordering it for breakfast – toasted under a grill and with…