Cookies & Cakes

Or rather, a gold-dusted meringue kiss!

I hope everyone has had a wonderful holiday season and got to spend lots of quality time with their loved ones :) Sorry for my absence, but after an insane week where I was baking in almost every spare moment that I had, I took some time off the blog [...]



I haven’t posted much in the way of food recently because I frankly haven’t been home before 9pm on most nights, and my wonderful mother has on most occassions put out some leftovers from the family dinner for my famished self. Why so late? Well, I’ve developed a bit of an addiction to going to [...]



There is something about certain words and the mouthfeel that they give which will make me develop either a like or dislike of them, almost in spite of what the words themselves mean. For example, I find I can’t feel much for the word ‘fluctuate’ - saying it makes my mouth feel awkward, almost as [...]



Every bite of these chocolate laden discs is one of sheer pleasure

This was the exclamation from my brother after I’d consumed one of these chocolate chocolate-chip discs of doom, and he was absolutely right. Those who know me know that I’m not one of ‘those’ chocaholics - you know the ones, with noses tuned to [...]



I am a ridiculously obsessed Monty Python fan, as are most of the lasses in my closest group of friends. In fact, we are so obsessed that for a few years there, we would have conversations which consisted of nothing but Monty Python quotes, such as
“Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of [...]