Making Whoopie (Pies)
I am absolutely sure I am not the first and will not be the last one to think of that little joke! Nor am I the first and will not be the last one to discover the delight that is... Continue reading →
Baking
Pandoro
One of the reasons I like Christmas is the influx of delicious Italian sweet yeasted cakes into the markets and food stores and even the supermarkets: Panettone and Pandoro. Living in Melbourne of course there is a big Italian population... Continue reading →
Yo-yo Cupcakes
I’ve already told you how I feel about Yo-yos. The custardy flavour in the cookie and frosting is so comforting and they are a lovely sunny yellow. So I suppose it was only a matter of time until I would... Continue reading →
Champagne Brulée Tart
On the Twelfth day of Christmas, my True Love baked for me… Champagne Brulée Tart!!!! (Candy Cane Truffle Cupcakes, Christmas Cracker Bonbons, Dutch Speculaas, Salmon Dill Layer Cake, Cranberry Danish, Raspberry Red Velvet Truffles, Chocolate Torrone, Gingerbread Snowflake Cookies, Christmas Mince... Continue reading →
Candy Cane Truffle Cupcakes (gluten free)
On the Eleventh day of Christmas, my True Love baked for me… Candy Cane Truffle Cupcakes! These babies are so dinky and just the right size to not completely ruin you after all the other Christmas treats you’ve ingested during... Continue reading →
Christmas Cracker Bonbons
On the Tenth day of Christmas, my True Love baked for me… Christmas Cracker Bonbons. Also known as Something Else to do With Your Christmas Mince. Imagine Christmas Mince mixed with cream cheese. Now imagine that encased in perfectly crispy,... Continue reading →
Dutch Speculaas
On the Ninth day of Christmas, my True Love baked for me… These. These, these, these. Speculaas are like the Foie Gras of Cookies. Like the Inception of Cookies. Like Umberto Eco’s as yet unpublished masterwork: Cookies in Hyperreality. Like: if... Continue reading →
Cranberry Danish
On the Seventh day of Christmas, my True Love baked for me… You got it: Cranberry Danish! The 12 cakes of Christmas idea actually came from my restauranteur friend Ash, who suggested that I made a “Danish a day in... Continue reading →
Raspberry Red Velvet Truffles
On the Six-and-a-halfth day of Christmas my True Love baked for me… Remember that Cheesecake Red Velvet Cake I told you about a while ago? How I said you could keep the crumbed offcuts of the cake in the freezer for... Continue reading →
Gingerbread Snowflake Cookies
On the Fifth day of Christmas, my True Love baked for me…. Glorious filigree snowflake cookies, made of crispy, warmly spiced, melt in your mouth gingerbread. Those who have met me know that snowflakes are a major obsession. It’s not just because... Continue reading →
Christmas Mince Tarts
On the Fourth day of Christmas, my True Love baked for me… Tarts. Maybe he isn’t my true love after all! That’s ok. These are a little bit like love. I promised I’d tell you what to do with that Christmas Mince…... Continue reading →
Saffron Almond Shortbread
On the Third day of Christmas, my True Love baked for me… Saffron Almond Shortbread and a big cup of lovely hot tea. At least for me, shortbread is a integral part of Christmas. If I go round to an Auntie’s... Continue reading →
White Christmas Cupcakes
On the Second day of Christmas, my True Love baked for me… Remember that strange white coconutty stuff of the antipodiean old school which has cherries and maybe nuts inside and is bound together (a little greasily) with copha? It’s called... Continue reading →
The Best Christmas Mince
On the First day of Christmas my True Love baked for me… A blog full of Christmassy treats! This is a really bad idea, coming up with 24 Christmas cakey treats for December, (with two days notice given that I came up... Continue reading →
Yuzu Fantasy
Yuzu – its becoming a gourmet buzzword, stretching out from its Japanese “homeland” (it originated in China but was introduced into Japan about 600-900AD) into Japanese – fusion and not even fusion restaurant fare. It’s an iconic citrus in Japanese cuisine, to me being... Continue reading →