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…
When I got back to work after my long service leave earlier this year, I discovered a cookbook on my desk, courtesy of one of my Professors. This is an excellent way to come back from long service leave and…
“Vegan potential?” I hear you ask. Well, yes. My Herman cake can never be vegan, because he was drinking cow’s milk when I got him, and even if I started feeding him almond milk or soy milk now, he would…
I promise I’ll figure out an egg-free Herman next, but this Herman was made quite literally in self-defense. You see, on Saturday while I was at choir, Herman got out of his container and went on a rampage across the…
Here, for the delectation and delight of those who have far too much time on their hands, is the full and complete recipe for how to make a Cross-Dressing Eurovision Ken Cake, with costume reveal marbled insides and alcoholic agar…
My mother asked me to make a couple of ‘lemony sponge cakes’ for my parents’ 40th wedding anniversary party last Saturday (Happy Anniversary, Mum and Dad!). I immediately suggested the insane lemon meringue cake that I like to make for…
Chocolate and beetroot cake sounds like such a bad idea, but it really isn’t. It turns out I own several recipes for it, in fact, though they use tinned beetroot, which doesn’t sound like a winning strategy to me. Also,…
(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…
This is a scaled-down version of the bottom half of yesterday’s wedding cake. It’s still enormous. You might halve it again, in fact, andjust make it in one sandwich tin – I made it in a 21cm round springform tin…
I can see you all looking at me rather oddly at this point, but zucchini cake is actually surprisingly good. My Oma used to make one with nuts in it, which in fact I didn’t like, but that wasn’t the…
