So, earlier this year, my friend Rhiannon emailed me and asked me if I’d be willing to do her wedding cake and maybe cater her wedding. “A lot of my friends have allergies,” she warned me, “So of course I…
Category: Special occasions
Showing the working out…
This is mostly notes for my own nefarious, wedding-cake-making purposes, so I’m going to put most of it under a cut. But if you enjoy reading the convoluted workings of my brain when trying to calculate food and allergy things,…
Chocoholic Walk in Melbourne
I’ve been a bit of an absentee blogger of late, largely due to extreme tiredness, which is not conducive to exciting cooking. One of the reasons for this is probably the Global Corporate Challenge, which I am currently participating in…
Recipe: Unnaturally Blue Curaçao Tart for Eurovision
Well, that was really rather a satisfactory Eurovision. I actually liked Sweden quite a bit, and while I still feel that Turkey and Iceland were robbed, there was a very pleasing mix of the truly bizarre (moonwalking bagpipe players?) with…
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…
Blog Birthday!
A year ago today, I sat down at my computer and wrote my first blog post here at Cate’s Cates. And then, because I can’t shut up, I wrote my first recipe a couple of hours later. And because I…
Show-Off Post: Near-Disaster Chocolate and Berry Wedding Cake!
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Coriolanus Cookery – thinking out loud
I’m trying to figure out my menu for Sunday’s Shakespeare, and finding it unusually difficult (it doesn’t help that I’m a bit under the weather this week. I actually have a really impressively revolting Shakespearean euphemism for my current condition,…
Further to last night’s post…
There were six people. I think I may have slightly overcatered. Just slightly. This is why it is dangerous for me to own books like The Perfect Scoop. Because I really do want to make every single thing in them……
Quiet New Year’s Eve…?
I wasn’t *having* a New Year’s Eve Party this year, on the grounds of exhaustion and really evil hormones. So why is it that I have somehow spent today making chocolate ice-cream and marshmallows and honeycomb and meringues and spiced…