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 […]
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: 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 […]
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 […]
Beautiful strawberry tarts from Edd Kimber’s book The Boy Who Bakes. I have made these once before, and they are a force to be reckoned with. For some reason, tarts have been on the menu of late… Perhaps it’s tartlicious weather. “Delicious! Mmmmmm.” – words spoken by a fan of […]
The Great British Bake Off is a superb show. In fact, it was this show that inspired me to study my Masters of Food, which I started this year, as its historical presentation of each week’s feature baked good was just so fascinating. The history behind what we eat is […]
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