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…
Tag: chocolate
Recipe: Chicken Mole-ish
This is very definitely not a proper Mole sauce. I don’t do anything fancy like using a carefully selected collection of different kinds of chilli and grinding them with my spices, and it is somewhat less fiery than the real…
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: 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: Fierce Strawberries (and tentacle cake)
A while back, one of my Professors welcomed me back from long service leave with a copy of Deceptive Desserts: A Lady’s Guide to Baking Bad, by Christine McConnell. I was particularly taken by her recipe for Screamberries, and my…
Recipe: Chocolate Truffle Cake Pops That Really Should Be Vegan
Why yes, this is indeed another Wedding Cake Leftovers post. Is anyone really surprised by this? This time, the cake bits in question were the vegan sachertorte cakes. I also had leftover dark chocolate, leftover milk and leftover cream –…
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…
Recipe and Review: Blood Orange Jaffa Cakes and Deceptive Desserts
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…
Eating Good Things In Paris
I am, in fact, still writing my travel diaries, but adding pictures on this laptop is an absolute pain in the neck, and they still come out sideways half the time, so I probably won’t post any more of those…
Recipe: Chocolate THING that is basically evil but really yummy
A couple of Thursdays ago, I read an article in the paper lamenting the fact that many Australians would be letting down their employers by taking a sickie on the Monday before Australia Day. (The article did, at least, point…