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…
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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: Stuffed Pasta Shells with Ricotta, Mint and Feta
Aargh! Here I am, with the best intentions in the world about posting lots of exciting things, and I can’t, because I don’t have time, because I’m too busy cooking! Well, and singing. To give you a brief glimpse of…
Recipe: Lemon and Kaffir Lime Delicious Pudding
It’s bitterly cold in Melbourne at the moment. We don’t usually get seriously cold here in June (and I’m sure you Europeans and Americans reading this would laugh at my definition of seriously cold, since it doesn’t involve snow, or…
Recipe: Chicken in a Pot with Artichoke and Aioli
This recipe fills me with delight. Really, the reason I bought a slow cooker was to be able to have something cooking all afternoon that would make the house smell wonderful. Well, I had to go out to the shops…
Recipe: Eurovision Random Fridge Brownies
Tonight is the first Eurovision Semifinal (or rather, it is when they broadcast the first semi-final in Australia), and it is our tradition to watch both semi-finals each year, for the simple reason that so often the true gems don’t…
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: Pudding Brownies with Cream Cheese and Cherries
I had such grandiose plans for this anniversary post! I was going to make macarons! I was going to make a gluten-free *and* vegan number 1 cake in best Women’s Weekly style! I was going to have a party and…
Recipe: Gluten-Free Sponge Cake
My mother asked me to make a couple of ‘lemony sponge cakes’ for my parents’ 40th wedding anniversary party last Saturday (Happy Anniversary, Mum and Dad!). I immediately suggested the insane lemon meringue cake that I like to make for…