One of my favourite Christmas recipe books is The Australian Women’s Weekly, Christmas. Not only is it visually stunning, but it has a great array of treats to make for gifts or to serve as part of your festive meals. I had the book out on the table, all ready […]
My fruit mince pies are the best! They scream Christmas and all have requested a second helping. Serve with a dollop of stiff cream with some Grand Marnier beaten into it. The recipe for the filling is my own, but I use Edd Kimber’s recipe for sweet pastry as it […]
Aside from flavour, ice-cream has one other factor paramount to my enjoyment: texture. Although flavours stuffed with shards of toffee, or crumbs of cookie, or ribbons of pureed fruit are fun, for me, I crave an ice-cream that is like silk. At N2 Extreme Gelato (science lab come ice-creamery), their […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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