Sweets
Our office decided to spend Melbourne Cup inside this year and we were each asked to bring in some afternoon tea. I immediately decided on cupcakes, a safe and reliable option after failing at four disastrous batches of macarons the weekend before. With a simple...
I woke up last Saturday realising I needed to use up the eggs in my fridge as they were a day away from expiring. So I decided to make a batch of Lamingtons with Jam Filling (which requires a whopping 6 eggs!). I can’t even...
We celebrated birthdays with the parents this long weekend and I couldn’t find a better way to celebrate than dedicate Saturday to baking a big, indulgent birthday cake for my mum and father-in-law. I’m always a little stumped when it comes to making a cake...
If you’re anything like me, Mango Pudding is the one dish I look forward to eating when the dessert trolley wheels past at yum cha. Surprisingly, it’s quite a tricky dessert to master at home. My first attempt a couple years ago resulted in mild...
Ferrero has a new chocolate and it’s deliciously dark. The new Ferrero Rondnoir offers layer upon layer of creamy, crunchy dark chocolate and an exquisite dark chocolate praline centre. Rondnoir is the perfect after dinner praline, great with a glass of red wine or a...
After all the talk about cocktails following my review of Preshafruit juice, I dusted off my martini shaker and popped open my liquor cabinet for some experimenting.
There’s something about gingerbread that’s just so nostalgic. One whiff of its sugary spiciness and I’m back in kindergarten splitting gingerbread men with my best friend Florence or standing in line at the bakery deciding which Simpsons gingerbread character to pick (children of the 90′s,...
Like many of you, I sat in front of the telly last Wednesday night, eyes glued, mouth agape when Adriano Zumbo walked onto the set of Masterchef with his Chocolate Mousse Cake. Because it was so divine and so damn unattainable, I decided to attempt...
Ever since seeing Chris’ winning chocolate fondants on Masterchef, I’ve been itching to try them for myself. As Matt Preston would happily tell you, the key to a good chocolate fondant is the oozey-ness factor in the chocolate centre. So joined by good friends and...
While many tourists seek out New York’s Magnolia Bakery like fanatics on a mission, we actually stumbled upon it on our first trip to Manhattan by pure accident. Staying in Greenwich Village meant we were within easy reach of Bleecker Street, a street immortalised in...
