The title says it all: eating, drinking, cooking, friendship and family.
Posted in Biscuits, slices and muffins, Kids, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Sep 5th, 2010
It seems I keep reading about chocolate chip cookies – David Lebovitz had a recipe for salted butter chocolate chip cookies and Tartelette had one for 36 hour gluten-free cookies. A few clicks later and I was suddenly reading an article from The New York Times on the quest for the perfect chocolate chip cookie. According [...]
Posted in Frozen goodies, Gluten-free friendly, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Aug 15th, 2010
So it seems that this blog is quickly becoming a shrine to David Lebovitz. I do realise that this could get boring for you, dear reader, but, what can I say? His recipes are damned good. I promise to have a break from ‘David talk’ for a couple of weeks. Right after this post. So [...]
Posted in Biscuits, slices and muffins, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Aug 11th, 2010
As I have previously mentioned, I recently bought David Lebovitz’s Ready for Dessert. I love sweet things! After an almost disaster with the Daring Baker’s Swiss Roll challenge, Saskia and I whipped up these cookies. I was headed to an afternoon tea and had planned on taking the Swiss Roll, but when things were [...]
Posted in Cakes and tarts, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Aug 3rd, 2010
July is a time full of family birthdays, with Mr M, my mother then my sister-in-law, C all having birthdays in a row, with a week separating each. When we got together for my mum’s birthday, I naturally offered to do the cake baking, particularly as I was itching to test out my brand new [...]
Posted in Biscuits, slices and muffins, Kids, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Aug 1st, 2010
Up until recently, I had never heard of whoopie pies. However, suddenly the damned things were everywhere on the blog front and even the New York Times explained that whoopie pies are ‘having their moment‘. So what is it? It’s somewhere between a cake and a cookie, sandwiched with frosting. This American treat has its [...]
Posted in Cakes and tarts, Frozen goodies, Gluten-free friendly, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes, The Daring Kitchen on Jul 27th, 2010
The Daring Bakers’ July challenge was a Swiss roll ice cream cake (see here). We made all the essential elements but did not quite manage to put them together. I was in charge of making two ice creams. Emily and I made the Swiss roll together. Here follows our recipes… I’ve tried making ice cream [...]
Posted in Desserts, Gluten-free friendly, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Jul 26th, 2010
Like a lot of people, I love crema Catalana. I have tried to make it several times before, with limited success. The first time, I curdled the custard when caramelising the sugar under the grill. The second time, I curdled the custard by overcooking it on the stovetop (see here). The third time, I curdled [...]
Posted in Biscuits, slices and muffins, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Jul 16th, 2010
Lately, I have been making a lot of custard-based dishes. In an upcoming post you will see that I’ve had a second attempt at my failed crema catalanas and a top secret Daring Bakers’ challenge also involved a custard. While this is all well and good, it means that – until yesterday – I had a large bowl [...]
Posted in Cupcakes, Gluten-free friendly, Kids, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes on Jul 5th, 2010
At the moment, it seems like a huge number of my friends are getting engaged and married. In this vein, two weekends in a row I was asked by friends to make cupcakes for their wedding related festivities, firstly, for the kitchen tea of Z and secondly, for A’s engagement party. My friend B came [...]
Posted in Cakes and tarts, Gluten-free friendly, Recipe: desserts, cakes and sweets, Recipes, The Daring Kitchen on Jun 27th, 2010
The Daring Bakers’ challenge for June was chocolate pavlova. We decided to go a little off track this month and make a dish using chocolate and meringue, but – let’s be honest – this really isn’t a pavlova at all! This chocolate-coffee-meringue cake was made by my grandma throughout my childhood and it starred [...]
