Category: baking

Recipe: Tropical Chocolate and Amaranth Cake

This recipe is the unnatural spawn of three different recipes – one in Veganomicon, for a low-fat vegan chocolate cake, one in 366 Delicious Ways To Cook Rice, Beans and Grains (which, incidentally, is an incredibly useful cookbook if you…

Basics that aren’t: Scones

This recipe doesn’t come with pictures, because the first thing you need to know about making scones is that the faster you make them, the better they taste.  That means no stopping at every step to take the lens cap…

Recipe: Five-spice Gingernuts

I made this recipe up because the recipe I had for five-spice ginger biscuits required overnight standing and I wanted biscuits *now*.  So I got a gingernut recipe from the Women’s Weekly and played havoc with it, and the results…