This post feels a bit like a daisy chain, because on the one hand I am pointing you at a post with a recipe I absolutely loved when I made it last week, and on the other hand I am…
Category: baking
Recipe: Sunshine Yellow Lemon Cake
This cake is incredibly easy to make, and really, really lemony – it verges on being too sour, in fact, which may possibly have something to do with the fact that I didn’t follow the recipe and also to do…
Recipe: Anzac-y biscuits for (nearly) everyone
I have this friend who is very tricky to cook for, because she and her family between them are allergic to everything. Well, perhaps not everything, but it’s certainly true to say that cooking for her involves avoiding all the…
Recipe: Steph’s Sticky Date Pudding Cupcakes with Caramel Sauce
This is a guest post from Steph, a friend of mine from work. She brought a huge batch of these cupcakes (and more importantly, their sauce) in for her birthday a few weeks ago, and we devoured them in record…
Recipe: Primary Colour Marble Cake
The local garden shop has mutated into a local garden shop that also sells really interesting obscure organic ingredients. Excellent. One of their interesting obscure ingredients was strawberry powder, which is freeze-dried strawberries ground into a powder. It’s lovely –…
Recipe: Obscenely Decadent Chocolate and Cherry Brownies
These are lightly adapted from a recipe in Paul Young’s book, Adventures in Chocolate, which is, incidentally, a completely and gloriously insane book containing recipes for things like marmite truffles and garlic ganache. Actually, I really need to try the…
Recipe: Lemon Meringue Sponge Cake
This is the aforementioned six-hour cake. It might take less time if I were truly and reliably competent at either Genoise sponge, meringue, or lemon curd (and actually, these days, I have it down to about five hours, assuming nothing…
Learning Petits Fours
I’m beginning to realise the flaw in this food blogging gig: I can’t actually cook and blog at the same time. The days when I’m cooking like a maniac, or having people around for dinner, or going to cooking classes…
Who are you and what have you done with Catherine?
It’s been a little quiet around here, which wasn’t my intention. Several of you have asked me for particular recipes – which I will get to, I promise! – but work has just gone into grant-writing mode again, and I…
Recipe: Sfoof! (Turmeric and semolina cake)
Having been delighted at the flavour (not to mention the name) of the extremely yellow sfoof I tried yesterday, I went in search of a recipe. The one I found was in The Arab Table, by May Bsisu. Looking at…