You can get your Peanut Butter fix without turning the oven on when you make these Peanut Butter Chocolate Bars. So simple it’s criminal. Once I open that jar of crunchy peanut butter it’s hard to stop eating it. It makes me crave sour dough toast with peanut butter and honey. Heaven help me if…
Cakes and Decorating
Mandarin Yoghurt Layer Cake . Naked
Naked cakes are very big business. I do like them, after-all it cuts the decoration time by 3/4. I made this one with excess yoghurt and mandarins that I had in the kitchen.I started off the month with this EasiYo yoghurt maker*. I was musing the benefits of making my own yoghurt when I…
Date tray cake Stir together
I know you will like this because it is easy, there is no better reason to like something. Dates are a good reason to like something too, wouldn’t you agree? It’s been a few weeks since I baked a cake and to be honest I really never thought I would say that. I love making…
Honey Cake, the light fluffy kind
This is a timely post with Honey in it, as it is both June today and a time where everyone is talking about the demise of the world’s bees. Without bees we are in trouble, yet no one knows exactly why all of the bees are dying. It could be chemicals or parasites or the…
Pretty Ribbon Bow Cake. Girls love it!
Well hello again from cake central. So it seems there is no end to the cakes that keep leaving this kitchen. That means you have to suffer through them too I am afraid!. I thought maybe you would like to see how a Bow Cake is put together. Despite it’s appearance this cake is really…
Easiest Sponge Recipe
This week is a bit of a crazy whirlwind for me. I am afraid there will most probably be nothing but cake posts, because that’s all I have been doing. Again. I partnered with one of my favourite companies last week to talk about their Australian organic milled cake flour. I am always happy to…
Chocolate Fudge Cake Honeycomb and Dulce de Leche Balls
This weeks Cake of the Week at The Gasoline Pony is Chocolate Fudge cake. It’s a pretty easy one that really does pack a chocolate punch. This cake is the basis of most of the cakes I decorate. It is easily cut into shape and keeps without refrigeration for up to two weeks. So if…
Frozen Cake, Chocolate cake,Chocolate Buttercream
My neighbour asked for a cake for her 7 years old’s birthday last week. It’s cake season at my house. I have used the stash of flour and butter and sugar here, and bought more again. So, when I was asked if I could make a “frozen” cake I was more than happy to affirm…
Baked Ricotta Chocolate and honeyed figs
This recipe for baked chocolate ricotta with honeyed figs would make my Dad very happy indeed. Its really quite simple yet tastes as decadent as any dessert that may take twice as long to make. When I was a kid we had a fig tree down the side of our house . It was…
Brownie Cake Salted Caramel and Chocolate Bombs
This is a brownie made in a nice round shape so that it can be served for dessert. A brownie is perfect at any time but imagine eating it with ice cream and salted caramel sauce. Sounds good don’t you think? Last week I made a cake and took it to The Gasoline Pony, this…
Carrot and Caramel Cake with Popcorn Praline
This carrot and caramel cake is gluten-free and makes the perfect layer cake for everybody. With loads of creamy icing and crunchy irresistable caramel popcorn, it is a cake worth celebrating I delivered this cake. A Carrot and Caramel Cake with Popcorn Praline! It got eaten and people loved it but it really did test…
Ice cream, no cooking, no churning
New Years Day is always a dilemma for me because I’m tired, sometimes hung over and always always hot. If I am at home in Sydney then I have family over. I try to make something that is easy to eat and looks like I haven’t done any cooking because my family always complain that…
Ice Cream Desserts you can make without a Machine
ICE CREAM DESSERTS YOU CAN MAKE WITHOUT A MACHINE It’s warm here in the bottom half of the world and we want ice cream. Ice Cream is one of our favourite desserts and it would be just so great to make it at home while the fruits of summer are cheap, and while we could…
Brownie Ice cream Layer Cake
This Brownie Ice cream Layer Cake is a bit of a birthday treat, well for the people that came to the birthday dinner anyway. Over the years we have had all kinds of cake for Skater’s birthday. The sad thing is that he’s not really excited by cake. As we have gone along the years ,…
Pear, Salted Caramel and Beer Cake
Doesn’t this Pear Salted caramel and Beer cake look amazing?. It really is as delicious as it looks. It is Spring and that means a lot of creatures big and small come out to enjoy the balmy nights. That’s also when we humans throw caution to the wind and wander about without shoes on darkened…
A Spotted Cake
I am by no means a traditional cake maker. I like the excitment of making a character cake much more than the presice business of flowers and figurines. This is probably just an excuse because I actually can’t make flowers or figurines, but I can make a good cake. A character cake means one that…