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…
Category: biscuits
Recipe: Chocolate Crackles for Grownups
I accidentally bought a cookbook on Thursday. It really wasn’t my fault. I was having a very bad day, complete with cramps and a completely wasted lunch break looking (unsuccessfully) for display folder refill sheets, and as I left the…
Recipe: Linzer Torte, Traditional and Sydney Road Style
Mothers’ Day has never been something we’ve really celebrated in our family (Mum just wasn’t into it. Maybe because I would have quite liked to do breakfast in bed when I was little, and she feared what I would do…
Recipe: Fruity Macarons
I seem to be on a roll with gluten-free recipes at present. I’m not sure why that is, but there you have it. I’m going to start by acknowledging that these macarons lack something in looks. One might say they…
Recipe: I Just Felt Like Playing In The Pantry Biscuity Slicy Thing
This recipe started off with me deciding that what I really needed in life was a nice, chewy, oaty biscuit with chocolate and dried cherries and almonds in it. I didn’t have a recipe for that, but I did have…
Recipe: Baklava
I promise there will be a Timon post in the next day or two, but I’m still rather bushed from the last few weeks, and photo posts always take me hours, so you will just have to make do with…
Recipe: Old English Matrimonials for Melissa
I have a terrible, terrible habit as a cook. Actually, I have many terrible habits as a cook, as I’m sure you all know by now, not least of which is my complete inability to follow a recipe even when…
Recipe: Pistachio and Cardamom Kourabiedes
I intended to go to the Food Bloggers’ picnic in Melbourne today, but just couldn’t drag myself out of bed again today. And then I spent the day alternating between lurching, zombie-like around the house, and feverishly baking because I…
Recipe: Vegan Dream Cookies
My alarm went off on Sunday morning just as I was in the middle of dictating a recipe for vegan choc-chip cookies to my Italian cousin Rosangela, whom I haven’t seen for nearly 30 years, and who, moreover, lives in…
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…