OK, after yesterday’s exploration of the truly disgusting things one can create while in pursuit of dessert, I thought we deserved something a bit less traumatic. So here, have a soothing brownie. Is it not beautiful? Does it not inspire…
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 think we all knew it wouldn’t take long before I felt compelled to create a recipe modelled on those fantastic vegetable-based cakes from Red Velvet and Chocolate Heartache (also known as My Favourite Cookbook Ever Ever Ever). Of course,…
I don’t really do Halloween, to be honest. I sort of like the idea, but it isn’t big in these parts (not being a festival generally favoured by the Greek Orthodox or Muslim communities), and my mother always disapproved of…
Tonight is the first Eurovision Semifinal (or rather, it is when they broadcast the first semi-final in Australia), and it is our tradition to watch both semi-finals each year, for the simple reason that so often the true gems don’t…
Tomorrow, my workplace is hosting Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea, a fundraiser for the Cancer Council. Since a lot of my postdocs and PhD students are supported by the Cancer Council in one way or another (and because we are all…
Ever since the weekend, I’ve been thinking about purple carrot cake. Whether purple carrots would make purple cake. How to maximise the purpleness of the cake. Whether a vegan carrot cake (lacking alkaline egg-white) would get me a better purple…
These are lightly adapted from a recipe in Paul Young’s book, Adventures in Chocolate, which is, incidentally, a completely and gloriously insane book containing recipes for things like marmite truffles and garlic ganache. Actually, I really need to try the…
