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Chocolate Beetroot loaf cake. The simplest one ever!

February 7, 2021 by Tania 3 Comments

Chocolate beetroot loaf cake

This chocolate beetroot loaf cake is the simplest one ever. It looks a little humble but it is soft and moist and so chocolatey. It’s a cake you will put on the table but never have to put away. A can of beetroot makes the best cake!! When you want a cake that isn’t creamy…

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Chocolate cookies, chunky fudgy stir together

August 9, 2020 by Tania 5 Comments

3 chunky chocolate cookies on a baking tray

These giant chocolate cookies are chunky, fudgy centred cookies are so delicious you can’t stop at one. They are perfect when you want a recipe that you can stir together. There’s no creaming butter and sugar, just put everything into one bowl and stir. Great to make with the kids! Whenever you want a show-stopping…

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Bread the easy way. No starter. No Kneading

June 2, 2020 by Tania 2 Comments

No knead bread in a pot just out f the oven

This is a recipe for bread the easy way. No starters. No kneading no failures. Perfect bread every time. Perfect Bread every time Have you been an ISO baker? Have you given up on feeding starters and wondering why everyone on Instagram seems to have the perfect sourdough? Then this is the bread for you….

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Banana Bread recipe. The toasting kind.

May 8, 2020 by Tania 7 Comments

Banana loaf with pepitas

So you have been after a Banana Bread recipe? Well, this is the one you need. It’s not cake, it’s real banana bread, just like you get at your favourite cafe. It has great banana taste but just the perfect texture you want for a Banana Bread Many people have asked me for a recipe…

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Chocolate Sourdough Cake, milk chocolate buttercream

April 8, 2020 by Tania 3 Comments

Chocolate sliced on a platter made with sourdough sarter

Pretty much everyone likes a Chocolate cake and this one will be no exception. It’s a very special kind of sourdough cake that uses starter as part of the ingredients. What is a Chocolate Sourdough cake? This chocolate cake recipe is made using the part of the sourdough starter that is discarded every other day….

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Fruit cake, Christmas cake, last minute hacks

December 20, 2019 by Tania 4 Comments

Christmas cake sliced open with white icing and decorations

Never let anyone tell you you are too late! This fruit cake can be made at any time at all- even the day you want it. It’s a boiled fruit cake that can be mixed all in one pot before baking. It really is as simple as that. No marinating no creaming just mix, simmer…

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Pastry. How to make Shortbread pastry

September 24, 2019 by Tania Leave a Comment

This is one of my most secret recipes. I have used it for about 20 years to rave reviews. Now it’s your turn to make it. Here’s my ultimate guide on how to make Shortbread Pastry Making pastry at home is not as hard as you think. Shortbread pastry is very forgiving and bakes up…

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Strawberry Frangipane Tart, heart felt baking.

April 9, 2019 by Tania 5 Comments

Freshly baked strawberry tart on a rack

Strawberry Frangipane Tart is a real treat when you have an abundance of Strawberries. This has a classic almond meal filling thats light and unfussy. Make it ahead of when you need it for a relaxed spin on dessert. If there are no strawberries try other fruits such as nectarines, peaches or poached pears, quinces…

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Lemon Tart with Mango and Passionfruit it’s Vegan

December 5, 2018 by Tania 4 Comments

Lemon Tart, vegan with mango

This Vegan Lemon Tart will leave you wanting more. Its light and extra lemony and goes well with Mango and Passionfruit Vegan Desserts You would have to have been living under a rock to not have tried some kind of Vegan dessert by now. Veganism has crossed the road and got to the other side…

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Buttercream secrets + Severed Finger Halloween Cake

October 24, 2018 by Tania Leave a Comment

I am going to share a recipe for the best most intense buttercream EVER.  It’s a real game changer . I have the secret to Intense buttercream. Ramp up your cakes in the simplest and cheapest way possible with this intensly beautifully flavoured buttercream. You will be amazed at how simple this is to get…

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Nutella Peanut Butter Cookies. Love these <3

January 23, 2018 by Tania 14 Comments

Peanut Butter Cookie filled with Nutella

These Nutella Peanut Butter Cookies make the very best munchies and the very best gift for someone too. Everyone loves Chocolate….don’t they? These little cookies are really the easiest little fellas. They have 4 ingredients, the two most important being the nutella and crunchy peanut butter, oh how I love those two. I made a…

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Soda Scones. 5 Minute Strawberry Chia Jam

October 22, 2017 by Tania 10 Comments

Soda Scones with strawberry chia jam- MKS

Soda Scones you will love. Scones. So simple yet so often a failure. These No Fail Soda Scones will be a keeper I promise. I shared a recipe for an instant party last week. My Orange Vodka Soda Splash was made using my new SodaStream machine and these scones too are made with the lovely…

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Banana Peanut Butter Cookies

September 30, 2017 by Tania 6 Comments

Banana Cookies with peanut butter

These Banana Peanut Butter cookies are probably the easiest thing you will ever make.  Yes I know that scooping the peanut butter from the jar and eating it from a spoon is even easier but…..this is the next best thing. I love peanut butter without reservation. The crunchier it is the more I love it….

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Blood Orange Loaf Cake. Gluten free.

August 20, 2017 by Tania 13 Comments

Orange Loaf Cake

This Orange Loaf Cake is easy to make. I used Red Belly Blood Oranges to make it even more delicious. This Blood Orange Loaf Cake is really quite the stunner. It is easy too, you just need to make it using a food processor, throwing in all ingredients to just combine. It literally takes minutes….

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Double Mandarin Shortbread- Reposted

August 16, 2017 by Tania 9 Comments

Mandarin Shortbread

These mandarin Shortbread make citrus season so worth enjoying. They are an easy shortbread you can make in the food processor. double mandarin Shortbread use every part of the beautiful orange fruit.  Double Mandarin Shortbread The beauty of colour. It’s inspiring. The immense wonder in the deep green of the sea to the orange of…

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Chocolate Banana Upside Down Cake

August 12, 2017 by Tania 11 Comments

Banana Upside Down Cake

Chocolate, caramel and bananas are of course a perfect match and this Chocolate Banana Upside Down Cake is so easy you’ll be making it all the time. I woke up the other day and wondered just why I hadn’t thought about making this before. Seems obvious. Chocolate Banana Upside Down Cake. I know most people…

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Tania Cusack Hi, I'm Tania and this is My Kitchen Stories. I share all kinds of recipes here. Most recipes are quick and easy, just perfect for families. BUT, you could also find vegan, cakes and desserts too as I write recipes for cafes and restaurants and slip them in here. Come and have a look around Read More
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