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,…
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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: Getting My Goat
This entry was going to be a recipe for goat and cardoon tagine. I’m still going to include the recipe at the bottom of this post, because Andrew quite liked it, but I really, really didn’t. Instead I’m going to…
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: Preserved Kumquats (an unfinished tale)
My brother has a kumquat tree. It’s quite an enthusiastic tree – apparently it bears fruit all year round, relentlessly. Since kumquats are not, on the whole, a fruit you can just eat off the tree, he has been looking…
Recipe: Fresh Ginger Cake (Vegan!)
(First post on my new computer, finding new programs and functionalities as I go… let’s hope for the best…) We had friends to dinner tonight, and I thought it would be nice to make David Lebovitz’s fresh ginger cake and…
Recipe: Delicious, But Disappointingly Un-Purple, Carrot Cupcakes
Ever since the weekend, I’ve been thinking about purple carrot cake. Whether purple carrots would make purple cake. How to maximise the purpleness of the cake. Whether a vegan carrot cake (lacking alkaline egg-white) would get me a better purple…
Recipe: Oma’s Gingerbread
No, I haven’t abandoned this blog! It just turns out that if you take one choir concert, two grant applications and a bunch of grant outcomes, stir in a couple of work events and add an upcoming Shakespeare Feast, you…
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…
Recipe: Spiced Pear Upside-Down Gingerbread Cake
This recipe is adapted from the Gingerbread book I reviewed a week or so ago – I meant to post a recipe to go with the review, but then I made the cake and forgot to photograph it and then…