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…
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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…
Easy Christmas Chocolate Shortbread
Easy Christmas Chocolate shortbread is the best thing to make when you have run out of time to do your Christmas baking! It’s December and I think I might have run out of time to marinate fruit and make Christmas pudding! I always have plans and then I always wake up and think….oh no its…
Fruit Mince Muffins – Great for Christmas
Fruit Mince Muffins are totally easy and completely remind me of Christmas. I asked one of my Italian work colleagues this week what kind of things she and her friends eat at Christmas here in Australia. She has been here for 8 years now and is an Australian citizen. We were standing in front of…
Perfect Flaky Pastry and Ricotta “Slice”
This total flaky delicious rough puff pastry is easier than you think. Pair it with baked ricotta and sweet tomatoes and you have the Perfect Flaky pastry and ricotta slice. You must try this! It looks completely delicious doesn’t it? This really is a perfect flaky pastry and ricotta slice. Well it actually is as…
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…
Beer and Coconut Cake with cream cheese icing
Last time I made something with beer I suggested you may be able to use left over beer to actually make it. Seems that a lot of readers found that quite humorous and let me know they were laughing about me, both on Instagram and in the comments at the end of the post. Thinking about…
Chocolate Cake with Kit Kat’s and Maltesers
How to make a Chocolate Cake with Kit Kat’s Almost everyone loves a chocolate cake and this is a good chocolate cake. I am always happy to make someone a cake. Usually I look forward to a bit of extra income but sometimes, you have just got to throw that to the wind and add a…
How to decorate a Spiderman Cake
Here’s a colourful and easy way to impress a Spiderman Fan. Follow this How to decorate a Spiderman Cake guide. I don’t remember having any such cake as a child. My Mother was never the frilly apron type. In fact her apron was not required much as her attitude to cooking was… why ? Admittedly…
Rainbow cake and how I excited the neighbours
Sponsored Post A lot of people I know may not be fussed about eating a rainbow, but, as I discovered, for one family this rainbow cake caused extreme excitement. I know it seems strange but often when I have too many cakes, tarts, biscuits and possibly a spare dinner or two, I walk out the…
No Knead Brioche Bread #quickbread
Here’s a video and recipe for No Knead Brioche Bread. Its a quick and much easier way to make this classic. Bread is still the staple of life whether you like it or not. It is still one of the main food sources in many countries in the world. Life for most of Europe would…
Chocolate Yoghurt Brownies & hidden goodness
Chocolate Yoghurt Brownies I am a bad Mother, according to Australian researchers. All this time I thought I was some wise, hip Mumma, but apparently I was doing the wrong thing. I am deceitful and encouraging of bad habits that will never be overcome. This is NOT something that a Mother wants to hear is…
How to make a Brownie Cake Stack
This Brownie Cake Stack makes a fast cake that’s easy to decorate and eat! I was in a hurry a few weeks ago. I needed to make a cake and I only had a couple of hours. This is an easy and very effective way to make an impressive cake. Even though I am going…
Rye and Sultana Soda Bread Mini
When we were kids we liked to boast that we were 1/4 English , 1/4 Irish and half Australian. I have no idea how we came to that conclusion, but we were very proud of our heritage. As it turns out there were a few more genes in the pool than we knew. They were…