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Coffee Poppy Seed Cake

June 3, 2011 Recipes

You know how sometimes a coffee cake doesn’t have any coffee in it? It’s actually a cake to eat with coffee and the whole thing turns in to a disappointing experience? Well, this is not that cake. A few weeks ago Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall published some coffee recipes in the Guardian and one of them was [...]

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Baked Chocolate Mousse

May 20, 2011 Recipes

Yet another outing for James Martin’s Desserts*. This time it was his recipe for baked chocolate mousse, which he bigs up as “one of the best in the book”. Given such a billing I’m not sure why I haven’t made it before … maybe it’s because the recipe looked as though it involved a few [...]

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Chocolate Brownies

March 15, 2011 Recipes

I’m lucky that, at present, I have more time for cooking (and thinking about food) than I would do normally. This means that most of our evening meals have become more interesting and more diverse. It also means … more time to think about cake. I have my favourite chocolate brownie recipe (thank you, Nigel [...]

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Another Chocolate Fudge Cake

December 28, 2010 Recipes

The last chocolate fudge cake has already had a couple of outings which is enough … time to look for another. Having a couple of recipes up your sleeve is useful so you don’t bore people with the same cake all the time … and you never know, the next recipe may be better. This [...]

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Chocolate Fudge Cake

October 12, 2010 Recipes

Well, it’s Chocolate Week in the UK so it’s a happy coincidence that, at the last minute I decided to make a cake as an additional dessert for a BBQ with friends. As I still subscribe to (and read!) a lot of UK based food newsletters chocolate was featuring heavily and this simple fudge cake [...]

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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 also [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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, [...]

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