Baking
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 - [...]
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 [...]
I often joke with my friends that I live in the middle of Sticksville Suburbia - about a 20 minute drive from my home and you encounter paddocks of sleepy-eyed sheep and horses grazing side by side, and there’s an entire strip of road with small-scale farms all side by side selling things from fresh [...]
Sometimes you try a food or a recipe for the first time and it just lets you down. Pretty badly, in fact. That was my relationship with scones - I’d tried one when I was quite young at a little tea house in Olinda, but I was thoroughly unimpressed with the tough, doughy and flavourless [...]
