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Two Tone Cheesecake

September 19, 2011 Recipes

I recently entered the Bikko’s Bake Off competition that was being run by Robern Menz.  I was very disappointed not to be one of the two lucky winners who will enjoying a day out with Robern Menz.  Congratulations to the choc mint cheesecake brownie and the dark chocolate salted caramel slice! But everything has a [...]

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Lemon Polenta Cake

August 9, 2011 Recipes

Last week I was asked about how many of my recipes I make up and I realised it’s been a while since I’ve done any of my own ‘recipe development’. On Sunday I was going to make a lemon and olive oil cake. As Andy headed off to the shops he asked if I needed [...]

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Apple Cake

July 28, 2011 Recipes

We have an apple tree. Last year we didn’t see a single apple – not sure if it was the lack of rain or the local wildlife. In fact, we didn’t even KNOW it was an apple tree. This year, the planets lined up and, about a week ago, I picked our small harvest. Some [...]

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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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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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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 [...]

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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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