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Posted in Baking, miscellaneous on Jan 27th, 2011
As it was Australia Day yesterday, I made a pavlova. No image we ate it before I could take a photo. I used the recipe out of the How to Eat cook book by Nigella Lawson. It’s a really easy thing to make – crunchy on the outside but full of sticky sweet goodness on [...]
Posted in Baking, Inspiration on Oct 24th, 2010
My self-imposed challenge of blogging every day has meant that today I’m struggling to find something to write about. As we all know, craft takes time and although I have made some progress on my knitting – it would look very similar to yesterday’s image. Today I made chocolate cup cakes. I made Chocolate Cake [...]
Posted in Baking on Jan 27th, 2010
As it’s school holidays, we’ve been baking (need to keep Miss A and Miss P and their friends contained). The above is a Crispie from the Golden Wattle Cook book. It’s a very easy recipe and makes heaps … Ingredients: 240g Butter 1 Cup Sugar 2 Cups Rolled Oats 2 Cups SR Flour 2 tsp [...]
Posted in Baking, Inspiration on Jan 27th, 2010
In the true tradition of Australia Day (26th) I made a pavlova I had been led to believe they were difficult, but it was surprisingly easy. I used the recipe from Nigella Lawson’s How to Eat. The recipe is very similar to this one. I thought I would include a few Australian facts: Australia is [...]
I dug out my copy of The Gentle Art of Domesiticity looking for a bit of baking inspiration.  I made the vanilla oat biscuits, which were very easy to bake (and were quite popular with A and P). I can’t find a recipe online, but here are some of Jane Brocket’s other recipes.  I haven’t included [...]
I bought myself a heart shaped cake tin – everyone should own a heart shaped tin. This is a chocolate cake with rose pink icing – recipe from this book.
I baked Yarnstorm’s Chewy Flapjacks. They’re certainly very lovely and chewy. I’m not sure I baked them long enough, but as the bottom of things tend to burn in my oven I like to err on the side of slightly early. It was an easy recipe and as it all went together in the saucepan, [...]
Posted in Baking on Jan 24th, 2008
We baked Almond Macaroons today – a couple of little friends were coming for a visit. It’s an extremely easy recipe and they taste great. I’m happy to email the recipe to anyone interested.
Posted in Baking on Jan 18th, 2008
I feel very Australian when I bake Pumpkin Scones. Possibly because this lady was well known for them. My littlest, P, loves them and I can pretend that she’s eating vegetables. Of course the biggest, A, doesn’t like them at all, so I’m still searching for something with vegetables for her. I used the recipe in [...]