28 February 2008
Peach almond yoghurt cake by bill granger
This one got eaten within 1 day! I didn’t put in the optional amaretto. VERY moist cake, but everyone who ate it agreed that it was better on it’s own and not (...)
13 May 2010
Pistachio white chocolate and honey french macaroons
Week 26 Theme: Green Cookbook Used: Afternoon Tea Author: Australian Women’s Weekly Hope you like the new layout! Bare with me as I’m still tweaking it and (...)
17 October 2009
Savory smoked chicken cheesecake
First of all; I did not bake this. My lovely mother did. So you can all thank Iron Chef Mumma for this one. I came home to find her latest recipe book open to (...)
12 December 2013
Pavlova
As I mentioned in my previous post, I baked and created a few things for Billy‘s food styling workshop. He requested a pavlova for us to style. I couldn’t let (...)
6 August 2009
Macarons with white chocolate and raspberry ganache
Masterchef inspired lots of us to make things we had never made before. A few weeks ago, I attempted the art of macarons. Having just bought the latest edition (...)
26 February 2011
Thai street food by david thompson
This was actually the third cooking the books gathering. I still haven’t blogged the second gathering, but you can see Thanh’s round up instead. We weren’t (...)
29 May 2009
Apple Tarte Tatin
As I mentioned in my previous post, I had a Masterchef inspired night. This recipe was in a pressure test challenge where 3 of the worse performing chefs have (...)
30 July 2012
Magnolia Bakery Red Velvet Cupcakes
New York. One day, I aim to get there. My list of places to eat is already way too long, let alone all the sights, sounds and smells…. *slips off into dream (...)
4 February 2011
Chocolate Orange Loaf Cake
Theme 2: Citrus Cookbook Used: Kitchen – Recipes from the Heart of the Home Author: Nigella Lawson It’s only the second theme of the cookbook challenge and I’m (...)
12 July 2008
Brownies with White Chocolate and Raspberries
Saturday is my favorite day of the weekend. You can sleep in and know that there is still one more sleep in till you have to face the music of being at work (...)
20 March 2011
Pandan chiffon cake
Thanks again to the lovely Penny for hosting the International Incident Party. I forgot about the cooking party for a while there, but I’m hopefully back for (...)
21 June 2009
Chocolate fondant
After a recent episode of my favorite TV show, Masterchef, I was inspired to make chocolate fondants. I have made similar things to chocolate fondants before (...)
15 September 2008
Melt and mix chocolate coconut cake
Last week I baked 2 cakes, but forgot to photograph one. A little annoyed, so I will have to make the other one again and photograph it for you all. The reason (...)
1 November 2010
Applesauce Spice Cupcakes
Week 38 Theme: Spice Cookbook Used: Martha Stewart’s Cupcakes Author: Martha Stewart Expect more baking recipes on this blog… I have ALOT of butter to get (...)
11 January 2011
Mini chocolate hazelnut cakes for Christmas high tea
I know we are well past Christmas, but suck it up and deal with it. This post has lots of food porn. My close friends from high school and myself started a (...)
25 July 2008
Molten Chocolate Cakes
After Dad’s historic walk home from the city, I thought I would make him a special dessert to officially celebrate his efforts. I was clearing up some lose (...)
13 November 2013
Yoghurt and Berry Cake with Elderflower Syrup
Do you know what my favourite ingredient in cakes is recently? No, it’s not chocolate. It’s not pop rocks. It’s not even peanut butter. It’s yoghurt. There is (...)
28 February 2008
Bill granger coconut lime macadamia cake
I made 2 of these on Wednesday night do de-virginize mum’s new KitchenAid mixer! Very light and fluffy, everyone in the office and at my aunty’s birthday party (...)
8 April 2008
Chocolate Chip Cookies
What do you do with excess easter eggs?? Well I thought I better not eat myself sick, so I though I’d share the love and make them into chocolate chip cookies! (...)
5 June 2014
Olive oil donuts for donut day
[Disclaimer: this is a link to a sponsored guest post, written by Iron Chef Shellie]. Today is National Doughnut Day in America. But I’m declaring it Donut Day (...)
27 June 2011
Heston's perfect burgers and baked alaska
Well, what a weekend. Lisa asked me if I wanted to team up and recreate Heston’s perfect baked Alaska. I’m not sure what sparked it, but I think it was the (...)
26 May 2012
Chicken, Bacon and Pea Pies
“You know the funny thing about your cooking? …. There is always a new piece of crockery I’ve never seen before, and there is only usually one of it” – Hamsley (...)
8 April 2014
Lemon yoghurt apple cake with lemongrass and ginger syrup
Earlier this year, Helados Jauja flicked me an email with a collaboration proposal. It was the height of Summer, it was hot, and ice-cream seemed like a good (...)
6 August 2009
Jaffa Cupcakes
So I bought this new cupcake cookbook to add to my already massive collection of cookbooks. Despite already owning quite a few cupcake books, I would have to (...)
