Cakes & Brownies

Unfortunately, I’ve been out of the kitchen all week due to study (and I’m still working on an analysis of bias in the media) so haven’t really got anything spectacular for your perusal. However, in lieu of that, here’s a Gâteau au Yaourt that I made using a recipe from Clotilde’s blog, Chocolate & Zucchini. [...]

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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 [...]

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Lamington lovin’

August 4, 2007 | 1,211 views

in Cakes & Brownies,Chocolate

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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I make no secret of the fact that I thorough adore being in the kitchen – I feel like I’m truly in my element when I am chopping, blending or mixing, and so I rarely notice the time passing when I am merrily humming away in the the kitchen whilst doing my thing. However, occasionally [...]

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