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…
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…
These are really quite basic cupcakes with a little bit of lavender in them. If you’ve ever made a plain butter cake, you probably used this recipe, but without the lavender. The only slightly complex part is the whipped ganache,…
This is the time of year when bloggers do their retrospectives, but I don’t feel like doing a blog retrospective for 2015. For one thing, I did hardly any blogging, and barely kept up with reading other blogs. For another,…
I always have my suspicions when a recipe calls itself a ‘sunken cake’. I am sure that this is meant to convey a sense of dense, richness, almost of decadence – the sense of a cake that is so full…
I made these cakes for a Big Number Birthday yesterday. The brief was that they had to be gluten-free, low-FODMAP and vegan, which does, in combination, take a lot of the fun out of things – but fortunately, nuts were…
I wasn’t going to bake anything for the Movember morning tea. I mean, really – I’ve donated to all the Mo Bros on my floor, and surely, surely in the name of men’s health the boys can take a turn…
You may be getting the impression that my workplace is all about cake, or at the very least, all about morning and afternoon teas. And… you might well be right. But, you see, our research covers so many different things,…
A while back, I bought a Scoopon for a cake decorating class with the Whimsical Cakehouse. The Whimsical Cakehouse is based in Sydney but does periodically run courses in Melbourne. This one was just a two hour class, with a…
