Today was the VegMel Vegan Pot-Luck Picnic, to which I was invited by the lovely Steph from VeganAboutTown (who made some of my recipes! How cool is it when people actually make your recipes? And change them? And then you…
Category: baking
Recipe: Jasmine and Orange Blossom Cupcakes for Sensitive Souls
Another day, another fundraiser at work (and another cupcake recipe on this blog), and since I am now officially She Who Bakes Allergy-Friendly Foods, I had to come up with something gluten-free and vegan that my friends could eat… The…
Recipe: Pasilla Chilli Chocolate Cakes with Hot Chilli Ganache and Smokey Chilli Mousse (incredibly allergy-friendly)
These cupcakes are a bit of a shock to the system. I freely admit to being a chilli wimp, but even I thought the original pasilla chilli cupcakes were a bit too mild. So I decided to spice them up…
Recipe: Fructose-Friendly Fresh Ginger Cakes with Rhubarb and Hibiscus
Another recipe from the wedding cakes I made for Rhiannon and Reed a few weeks ago! This one was designed, with the help of the lovely Emily, to be low-fructose and dairy-free, and was thus also gluten-free and, by chance,…
Recipe: Oaty Chocolate Cranberry Biscuits
This recipe is a riff on my favourite choc-chip cookie recipe, with nods to Tessa Kiros’s recipe for choc-chip cranberry cookies and to the cranberry oatmeal cookie mix I get at the markets sometimes. (It works even better if you…
Recipe: Gluten-Free Flour Mixes (including self-raising)
I don’t know if this really counts as a recipe, exactly, but since I’ve been doing a fair bit of gluten-free and fructose-free baking recently, I thought I’d post a couple of my preferred gluten-free flour mixes. In all honesty,…
Recipe: Hummingbird Cupcakes
These are the hummingbird cupcakes I made for a recent wedding. By request of the bride, they contained tinned apricot, which is not something I’ve seen in hummingbird cake before, as well as nuts, which are a traditional part of…
Recipe: Perfumed Blood Orange and Cardamom Cake
Tonight was our regular fortnightly dinner party with friends who live down the road, and really should have been an excellent excuse to practice wedding cakes. The trouble is, I am currently fighting a psychological battle on the subject of…
Recipe: Chocolate Chilli Cupcakes that everyone can eat
Hello again! And hello new people who wandered over from Broadsheet Melbourne, which I gather wrote lovely things about me yesterday. I am ridiculously flattered and delighted by this! (So lovely not just to get a review, but a review…
Recipe: Early Morning Vegan Chocolate-Banana-Oat Cookies
I’m still playing with my Nigella Lawson app. And yes, it’s 7:30 in the morning, which is a stupid time to be baking, but I woke up at 6:00 when I realised we hadn’t put the bins out, and once…