Tag: cinnamon
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Classic Swedish Ginger Thins Recipe for Christmas
I have a love hate relationship with Christmas in Australia. Pros are that it’s summer and we can go to the beach, eat mangoes and cherrries and have water fights in the back yard after Christmas lunch. Cons are that it’s summer, its humid and hot and we spend far too much time making and…
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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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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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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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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 