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: cakes
Recipe: Vegan Blueberry No-jito Cupcakes
I was planning on making my lemon and raspberry vegan cupcakes this weekend, but the supermarket lemons were all imported and expensive, and the limes were local and cheap. Lime and coconut are a pretty safe combination, and then I…
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…
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: Chocolate Banana Friendship Cake
I’ve made this cake twice in the last week. Well, technically, I’ve made it three times, but the first time it was the Women’s Weekly Banana Passionfruit Cake, which I must have made a dozen times in the last six…
Recipe: Vegan Choc-Mint Checkerboard Cake
I have wanted to try my hand at a checkerboard cake for ages, but have never quite gotten around to it. But every March, Andrew’s birthday comes around, which means that the search begins for a new variation on chocolate…
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: Vegan Gingerbread Cupcakes with Spiced Apples
Wow, I’ve finally caught up with all the pre-programmed posts and here I am… in, it must be said, a rather less auspicious space than I would prefer to be at this time of year. It’s been a difficult year…
Recipe: Very Hungry Caterpillar Birthday Cake for a Three-Year Old
Just when I was thinking about what sort of cake to make for my niece’s birthday, my friend in Germany sent me this photo of a Very Hungry Caterpillar cake. Now, that is a spectacular cake, but I don’t really…
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…