Archive for August, 2007
This post was going to contain some silly comments about the variety of cheesecakes around as well as the qualities of baked goods from certain areas of the world - for example, Asian bakeries and their overwhelming amount of different kinds of soft milky breads (I think I’ve spoken before about the near impossibility of [...]
Yes, this is a strawberry mirror cake. No, I’m not a member of the Daring Bakers clique - but read on…
Whilst I bake cakes fairly often (there is a new cake on the kitchen bench on average once a fortnight), I generally go for plain cakes that don’t require any fancing piping or icing - [...]
Steamed buns - one filled with sweetened red bean paste, the other with finely chopped spring onion
With China, Japan and Korea being in such close proximity to each other, it means that many dishes cross the short distances to each country, either in its existing form or being recreated into a new variation (such as [...]
So what do you get when you take a sponge cake, chop it into squares, smother them in thick glossy chocolate icing then give them a good dredging in dessicated coconut?
Why, a wonderful treat known as the lamington, of course!
Much like the humble pavlova, the lamington’s origins are contested - this time, not just between [...]
Anyone who has read this blog for any number of time knows that I love spending hours in the kitchen. Baking, in particular - I love rolling up my sleeves and attacking an unfamiliar recipe with gusto, watching with nervous anticipation to see whether it turns out. Nearly all the time, I revel in the [...]
