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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 [...]

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Berry Trifle

January 11, 2010 Recipes

December’s Australian Gourmet Traveller (AGT) featured a stunning dark berry trifle on its cover which was also the month’s Perfect Match recipe.
Trifle is one of those dishes where everyone has a recipe and that recipe is the ‘definitive’ recipe.  So no doubt there will be some complainers that some aspect of this version is wrong [...]

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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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