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Carrot, apple and walnut cake with cream cheese frosting & praline (shhh…it’s gluten free too!)

August 5, 2015 by date with a plate.

So here it is folks, Part Two of my awesomely fun collaboration with Katey from Little Bit Bakery (read more about Part One if you missed it). I feel so privileged to be able to share this recipe with you for Katey’s drool-worthy gluten free carrot cake – please do not underestimate the enormity of this momentous moment…this cake is Katey’s best seller and for good reason. Lusciously moist cake, which is light and practically falls apart in your mouth, […]

Categories: Afternoon tea, Cake, Dessert, Special Occasion, Vegetarian • Tags: apple, baking, cake, carrot, carrot cake, cream cheese, dessert, frosting, gluten free, Granny smith apple, icing, icing sugar, walnuts

Vanilla cake with hazelnuts and fresh figs

February 24, 2015 by date with a plate.

It’s my favourite time of the year: fig season. No joke, I eat so many when they’re in season, it’s like my body knows I only get a small window of opportunity before “poof!” they’re gone… So I decided on Saturday morning as I strolled through a local fruit and veg shop, which was selling packs of six for $3.99, that I would make something special to celebrate the glorious fig. And as I like them best the way nature […]

Categories: Afternoon tea, Cake, Dessert, Special Occasion • Tags: baking, cake, cream, dessert, fig, hazelnuts, icing sugar, mascarpone, praline

Sponge cake with strawberry jam icing

December 15, 2014 by date with a plate.

A couple weeks ago I made five jars of strawberry jam…awesome huh? Well, it would have been, had I managed to make proper jam, but alas, somehow mine became runny…very runny. I’ll blame it on overly juicy fruit, totally unrelated to my technical prowess – because I rock at making jam (well usually – see here). So runny is my homemade jam that its realistically just liquid strawberry with a few chunks of fruit – think Macca’s strawberry topping for […]

Categories: Afternoon tea, Cake, Dessert, Jam • Tags: baking, cake, strawberry

Quince & yoghurt cake

June 11, 2014 by date with a plate.

Just for the record, a quince is a fruit. A delicious, fragrant and golden yellow fruit. Don’t be fooled into thinking this little gem is just some purple sticky blob served alongside cheese – it’s so much more than that. In fact, it’s scent is a portal to my childhood – my Grandparents used to cook quinces whole to serve alongside breakfast. I used to watch as they slowly turned from a vibrant yellow to the a deep ruby red. […]

Categories: Afternoon tea, Cake, Dessert • Tags: baking, cake, cinnamon, icing, icing sugar, quince, vanilla

Chocolate cupcakes with vanilla cream cheese icing

February 6, 2014 by date with a plate.

So while I am not a believer in Valentines Day, I am a believer in food, love and the gifting of food to the one you love. What I am trying to say is that if you are a Valentines Day believer then you should bake your loved one cake….I don’t think there’s any better way to say “I love you”. Now don’t judge me immediately on my lack of icing ability, I suck at it. OK, there I said […]

Categories: Afternoon tea, Cake, Chocolate • Tags: baking, coconut, cupcakes, icing sugar, Valentines Day, vanilla

Snow covered chocolate brownies

December 13, 2013 by date with a plate.

First of all, when I say snow I really mean icing sugar. Secondly, when I cook brownies, I cook with butter. Let’s be honest, butter is amazing. I’m all for healthy eating and a good salad but when I cook cakes or brownies or any sort of dessert – its never “low fat”, never with margarine and never without guilt. But that’s ok every now and again, its Christmas and people like an excuse to indulge. These brownies are awesome, […]

Categories: Afternoon tea, Cake, Chocolate • Tags: baking, brownie, chocolate, dessert, Nigella Lawson

Reese’s peanut butter and chocolate layer cake

September 23, 2013 by date with a plate.

When my boyfriend’s best friend celebrated his birthday over the weekend, I decided it was only fitting to bake him an extravagant, coma inducing cake to help distract him from the pain of aging. As a fan of Reese’s peanut butter cups, it seemed only fitting to reproduce the much loved confectionery into a five layered birthday cake. I wasn’t entirely sure how to do this, so spent the week leading up to his birthday analysing recipes I found online […]

Categories: Afternoon tea, Cake, Chocolate, Dessert, Special Occasion • Tags: baking, birthday cake, cake, chocolate, peanut butter, Reese's

Orange Syrup Cake

July 15, 2013 by date with a plate.

After receiving six brand new shiny cookbooks for my birthday, I decided over the weekend that enough was enough – it was time to start cooking and discovering. Being a sweet tooth, I was instantly absorbed by all the new cake and dessert recipes and actually endured a painful internal battle over which one to cook first. I subsequently settled on an Orange Syrup Cake, which looked like it might take me back to the hot months of an Australian […]

Categories: Afternoon tea, Cake, Dessert • Tags: almond meal, baking, easy, Oranges, semolina, strawberry, zest

Nigella’s Lemon Polenta Cake

May 26, 2013 by date with a plate.

A combination of two things led me to this recipe; an overly abundant lemon tree at my Mum’s house and a desire to use polenta in baking. It would appear (to me at least) a match made in baking heaven. My Mum’s lemon tree is consistently plentiful with deliciously sweet lemons, not the normal hard skinned lumpy variety, but instead a perfectly oval shaped, thin skinned and sweet flavoured variety which I have come to love over the years. It is […]

Categories: Afternoon tea, Cake, Dessert • Tags: baking, cake, dessert, flavour, ground almonds, lemon, Nigella Lawson, polenta, sweet

Carrot Cake, no healthy treat here!

April 19, 2013 by date with a plate.

You would be forgiven for thinking that a slice of Carrot Cake was doing you any good. In fact I have sometimes been under the false premise that this cake must include a whole range of beneficial nutritional ingredients…but then my friend Gabby gave me her tried and tested recipe for this much more sinister afternoon treat. That’s right, carrot cake isn’t all that its name suggests. Yes there’s carrots, but there is also its sinister sidekicks; oil, butter and […]

Categories: Afternoon tea, Cake, Dessert • Tags: baking, cake, carrot, cream cheese, dessert, easy, icing, kid friendly, muffin tin, Party

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