Candies & Sweets

What on earth are these gooey, sticky little morsels? Read on to find out What a thing to have a sweet tooth. Anyone who has a sweet tooth knows what it’s like to have a craving for the sweet and sugary, to bite into something that clouds the senses in tooth-achingly luscious decadence. Unfortunately, sweets [...]

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Bittersweet beauty

January 30, 2007 | 307 views

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Dark, dusty, misshapen lumps – what secrets do these homely brown nuggets hide? Sometimes, you find that you come across something and you seriously understimate it. Like that Jamie Oliver recipe that you came across that seemed simple enough, but left you standing in the middle of an exploded kitchen asking “what went wrong?”. Or [...]

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Leaning Tower of Marshmallows

December 10, 2006 | 626 views

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After seeing this post on Helen’s blog, I was absolutely enamoured with the idea of making actual sweets at home – not the baked kind. However, the recipe required the use of a sugar thermometer, and alas I had none… till now. My new favourite kitchen toy $20 later, I left the CakeDeco store in [...]

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Oh honey, oh sugar sugar

December 10, 2006 | 2,622 views

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By the time it gets to Friday in the office, my coworkers and I are usually at our wit’s end with boredom, so eager for the weekend that we’re almost salivating with desire (eww, now there’s a mental image!) and shooting emails back and forth, desperate for some form of amusing distraction. Occasionally, when I [...]

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Or, in this case, just one piece of salted peanut brittle! After seeing Mooncrazy’s post about her peanut brittle, I started wondering – could I make this myself? Being a lover of both sugar and nuts, how could this combination not appeal to my sensibilities? So, being the neurotic little note taker that I am, [...]

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