Desserts

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 […]

Chocolate Cardamon Pots

If you do not have a weak spot for incredibly rich chocolate, this recipe is not for you. Best you go and eat a Milky Way or some other frivolous candy bar that won’t ruin your appetite, as this dessert certainly will. It will obliterate it to kingdom come and […]

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 […]

Salted Buttered Popcorn Macarons

One bite of these macarons, and you’re instantly transported to a dark cinema, credits rolling… These macarons taste so incredibly much like popcorn, and popcorn tastes like the movies. Apart from adding popcorn to the top of the shells, they are just a basic French meringue macaron shell. I didn’t […]