When I made this cake I was thinking about using up the last of the seasonal blueberries and it never occurred to me that this would be the perfect cake to serve for Mothers Day. This upside down almond and …
Category: Baking
Pudding for two – little molten chocolate cakes
We are an old married couple. There’s no doubt about it, and our super exciting Saturday nights go a little like this: the kids go to bed. we have our dinner. we sit down on the couch where Mike will …
Ima’s hot cross buns
I’ve finally conquered the mighty hot cross bun. I’ve never had much success with these before, my previous attempts could have been used for shot put, but finally, success! Also, I’m glad Easter is once a year, because these are …
The very best carrot cake
I’ve always been a firm believer that vegetables do not belong in dessert. Carrots are for dinner, not cake. Zucchini belongs in fritters, not muffins. Black beans go in tacos, not brownies. I made this cake because a few of …
Homemade marshmallow Easter eggs
There is a lot of controversy about Cadbury here in NZ. For what was once a kiwi favourite, they’ve done themselves no favours in recent years. Causing huge public backlash, they used palm oil in their chocolate (although they don’t …
Baklava
So I had planned to bake something pretty extravagant this week, but then I went and shattered the glass bowl of my stand mixer. Again. Luckily, a friend had lent me her copy of ‘Food Safari’ and in amongst all …
Honey + thyme madeleines
I am getting really excited about this years Easter baking and want to make ALL of the things RIGHT NOW, but since it’s only the beginning of March I need to cool my jets for a bit. I’m always looking …
Ina’s Challah
I’m continuing with my ode to cookbook authors this week. I had completely forgotten that the local library is a treasure trove of cookbooks – free to read! So I came home with an armful and set to work finding …
Little Girdlebuster pies
It was years ago when I first saw Nigella on TV. Somehow I’d missed the buzz around ‘How to be a domestic goddess’ and jumped on board the Nigella train around the time the ‘Nigella Bites’ TV series was airing. …
The most delicious strawberry shortcake
There are some words that just make me cringe. I don’t even want to type them out here (one of them begins with m, one begins with p and none of them belong on a food blog), but one of …
once upon an egg 