I’ve just done a massive cookbook cull so naturally I found myself ogling cookbooks again the other day. If all I did was ogle them, it wouldn’t be a problem, but ogling inevitably leads to browsing, which leads to detailed…
Category: baking
Recipe: Ricotta Cake with Lemon and Raspberries
Back in August, I went to a cheesemaking workshop at La Latteria, where we made Primo Sale, Bocconcini, and Ricotta cheeses. It was a really fun workshop, which I fully intended to review, but that’s clearly not going to happen…
Recipe: Vegan Almond Butter Biscuits and a Fancy Rolling Pin
Facebook has some very strange ideas about what I like. For a while there, it decided that I was a lesbian and wanted to have IVF babies with my girlfriend, and I got So. Many. Ads. for this. Then it…
Recipe: Lazy Overnight Pizza, and a Nearly-New-Years-Resolution
Hello! It’s been a long time again, hasn’t it? It isn’t that I haven’t been cooking (says she who baked mumble-several-hundred biscuits for Christmas this year and also co-hosted Christmas dinner with her brother, who was under the adorable delusion…
Show-off Post: A Castle Cake for a 4th Birthday
My niece turned four last week, which means that she is of a suitable age for Women’s Weekly-style birthday cakes. Alas, however, my niece is also at a stage in her life when she is kind of opposed to eating…
Recipe: Blackberry and Ricotta Cheesecake with lavender and candied Yuzu
Oh, I made such a big mistake when I was on leave. I went to Toorak to visit the Xocoalatl store, and on the way back I found the Prahran Market, which turns out to be a Catherine trap of…
Recipe: Lemon and Raspberry Tarts with Ruby Chocolate
Yes, I went to the Ruby Chocolate demo, and yes, I pre-ordered a big bag of ruby chocolate, so there are probably going to be a few ruby chocolate recipes on this blog in the near future. For those unfamiliar…
Recipe: Almond biscuits with Davidson Plum Powder and Ruby Ganache
I know. I know. This is a completely ridiculous recipe to share because it’s basically all obscure ingredients. And do you want to know how it came about? It came about because we had a bake sale to fundraise for…
Recipe: Walnut and Chocolate biscuits and a fundraiser
Every year, I organise a team of colleagues to do the Global Challenge, a pedometer-based challenge where you have to get a certain number of steps per day. My team of seven has changed every year, but there are three…
Recipe: Vegan Sacher-cupcakes
Calling these cupcakes Sacher-cupcakes is probably an insult to Austrians everywhere and they will never let me go back to their country, let alone that hotel, but I do think it’s a fair description. Sachertorte is a light chocolate sponge…