Posted in Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, tagged birthday cake, butterfly, butterfly cake, cake, kids, Women's Weekly Birthday Cake Cookbook on 9 March, 2010 | 2 Comments »
I have fond memories of childhood birthdays. In particular, I remember the joy of choosing a birthday cake from the Women’s Weekly birthday cake cookbook.
I remember leafing through the book and weighing up the difficult choices – this year did I want a castle or a ghost, a duck or a dolly or maybe the [...]
Posted in Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, tagged Daring Bakers, Desserts, Italian food, ladyfinger biscuits, Pastry cream, savoiardi, Tiramisu, Zabaglione on 27 February, 2010 | 13 Comments »
At boarding school, we were given ‘tiramisu’ for dessert about once a month. I remember it as a foul concoction of supermarket jam scrolls, packet custard, and raspberry jelly. (Or whatever leftovers the cook decided to ‘inventively’ combine.) It was not one of my favoured desserts in those days.
The tiramisu that was set as the [...]
Posted in Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, tagged cupcake; spelt; spelt cupcake; salted caramel on 26 February, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Recently I have been having a huge craving for a cupcake. Now, you would think it would be pretty easy to get a cupcake in this town, what with them being ‘the’ sweet treat (well, maybe the macaron has taken over now). In any event, there are plenty of gorgeous little cupcake places in the [...]
Posted in Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, tagged berries, dessert, rosewater, watermelon sorbet on 23 February, 2010 | 2 Comments »
And finally, dessert.
I picked this one out of Saha, yet another one of the great cookbooks from the Malouf team. This dessert was, in my opinion, the star of the mezze feast (don’t tell the labne balls).
Watermelon sorbet
800g watermelon flesh (about a quarter of a watermelon)
200g caster sugar
70g glucose (I could not find this and [...]
Posted in Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, tagged Australian Food, Meringue, Pavlova, Simple Food on 26 January, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Despite my fear of being called politically-correct/un-Australian, I feel ambivalent about Australia Day. Sometimes arts degrees make enjoying life more challenging.
Aside from all the political stuff, the thing that irritates me the most about Australia Day is the meaty emphasis. This is exemplified in the infamous Sam Kekovich lamb advertisements from Meat and Livestock Australia. [...]
Posted in Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, tagged chai ice cream, Ice cream on 19 January, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Last week, my lovely cousin A. came to stay. Being the lovely cousin that she is, she brought us some chai tea as a gift. Thanks A!
We decided to make some chai ice cream, and A. found this recipe at ‘Simply Recipes’. It seemed worthy of attempting.
This is what we did…
Ingredients:
1 star anise
10 whole cloves
10 [...]
Posted in Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, tagged banana, children, chocolate, muffin, spelt, wheat-free on 11 January, 2010 | 2 Comments »
On the weekend I went to a first birthday party (Happy Birthday Harry!!) and thought I would make something for the kids to enjoy. These muffins are an old standby from Nigella Lawson’s How to Be a Domestic Goddess, improved (in my opinion) by the addition of chocolate chips and made with spelt flour. I [...]
Posted in Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, tagged cheesecake, cherry, cherry cheesecake, gluten free, recipe on 28 December, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My workplace recently had a charity cherry drive – order cherries through work and a portion of the sale goes to charity. My workmate S received the email and without reading it too closely ordered two boxes of cherries. It turns out that the boxes were 2kg apiece and suddenly she was flush with excess [...]
Posted in Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, The Daring Kitchen on 23 December, 2009 | 20 Comments »
As well as being members of the Daring Cooks, Saskia and I are also Daring Bakers.
The December 2009 Daring Bakers’ challenge was brought to you by Anna of Very Small Anna and Y of Lemonpi. They chose to challenge Daring Bakers’ everywhere to bake and assemble a gingerbread house from scratch. They chose recipes from [...]
