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baking

Lemon and Thyme Cake

August 11, 2010 Recipes

I have just ended up with a pile of lemons and a surfeit of eggs. I’m working my way through both … slowly.
I spotted this recipe for a lemon and thyme cake about a month ago and I invariably find Nigel Slater’s cake recipes flawless (his chocolate brownie recipe is fantastic). I am [...]

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Mocha Cupcakes

April 22, 2010 Recipes

April 2010
For my birthday last year I received Dolce!, a book of Italian desserts.  For some reason, it’s taken me until now to make anything from it.
I chose the Mocha Cake purely because all the ingredients were in the cupboard and I couldn’t be bothered heading down the shop.  In many ways, this cupcake recipe [...]

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Pecan Pie

March 9, 2010 Recipes

A long weekend BBQ, some uncharacteristic (for Adelaide) rain and a request for pecan pie …

BBQs I like.  They are an excuse to eat a lot of bread, meat and maybe dessert, and the whole salad thing is just an annoyance.  Having a BBQ at home is even better because I can make as much [...]

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Easy Chocolate Cake

November 30, 2009 Recipes

The world’s cookbooks (and the internet) are awash with recipes for complicated cakes that look stunning and will take a good couple of hours to put together.
Those cakes are fantastic for events where you might want to showcase some baking talent but they won’t do if you want a slice of cake to take for [...]

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Cupcakes for Cupcake Camp

November 8, 2009 Recipes

Cupcake Camp is coming to Adelaide on Sunday 22 November.  This means it’s time for me to start practising baking (and decorating) cupcakes.  What a trial!
Since I like messing around with recipes, I dug out my 1920s Handbook for Bakers by Albert F Gerhard.  All the recipes are given in commercial quantities, in imperial, using [...]

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Melting Moments

October 26, 2009 Recipes

I borrowed the book Cooking:  A Commonsense Guide from the library while waiting for my container load of cookbooks to arrive from the UK.  The book is full of sensible, familiar recipes so I was, obviously, going to try out some sensible familiar biscuits!
The recipe alleges it makes 40 biscuits so I decided to reduce [...]

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