Cake

Hummingbird Cake

Hummingbird cake is the favourite of my friend Hodgie, however, it doesn’t get much airtime and often flies under the radar. It is a cracking cake though, moist and packed with tropical fruit. It can take the edge off a dull afternoon with a lovely cup of tea. At Recipease […]

Mug Brownie

Faced with the tragedy of no oven, one inevitably googles microwave baking, and sometimes, one is pleasantly surprised. This recipe for mug brownie is scandalously easy and scandalously good. It is though, so very rich, and you may feel ill afterwards, but it is worth it.  

Blueberry Yogurt Muffins

For some reason, I feel that muffins possess the bottom rung of the baked-goods ladder… Probably because they are often done so badly. There are the trays of dry muffins that continually get wheeled out at corporate morning teas, and then the leftovers are wheeled out for afternoon tea… There […]

Cardamon and Almond Cake

Ever since procuring a gorgeous glass cake stand, I feel compelled to always have some cake adorning it, otherwise it looks sad and lonely. Cardamon and Almond Cake, with its warming exotic spice, is magnificent hot out of the oven on a cold winter’s night. It is aromatic and sweet […]

The Best Chocolate Cake

There are oodles of recipes for chocolate cake in existence, and a fair whack of them claim to be for ‘the best chocolate cake’. There can only be one recipe to reign over them all, and that belongs to Chef Gordon Ramsay. I have made this cake several times and […]

Blondies

Blondies: Brownies’ dumb, bimbo cousin. Brownies’ dumb, bimbo, delicious cousin. Often underrated and neglected, the blondie uses white chocolate instead of dark. It is a little bit easy and a little bit lazy, and the ideal treat to make when you want to get your bake on, heavy machinery not […]