I am completely obsessed with this loaf at the moment, I love ginger overload like this – warm, spicy and sweet – just the perfect slice to have with a good cup of tea or strong coffee. For me a smear of butter is essential, and a drizzle of Manuka honey or a little ginger […]
A long, long, long time ago when I first started this blog I posted a recipe for a dark chocolate tart and at the time I was really happy with the pics which I merrily posted on social media thinking they were bloody awesome. Now I look back at those pics which still appear endlessly on Pinterest […]
Even though my mum has never enjoyed cooking she baked delicious after-school treats all through my childhood – I have very fond memories of flying in the door having walked home from school to find that Mum had just made, ‘goo’ cake, Louise slice, fruit slice or banana cake, all perfect to enjoy with a […]
Don’t you love old faithful recipes? This is a guaranteed moist, fudgy extra rich and dark chocolate brownie with white chocolate chunks and a (newly added to the recipe) sprinkling of sea salt – phwaor. They are also ridiculously easy and quick to make. These would be great to make for a chocolate loving mother […]
You might remember a few weeks ago I did the big kick ass Easter/Birthday chocolate cake for my friend Netty – layered with mousse and slathered in ganache…? Well this is a slightly simplified version of that same recipe – an absolute doddle to make and so incredibly good, with super moist cake (which easily lasts 3-4 […]
Hello and hurrah – my final blog recipe for Easter! (Now just two more shots to do for Fairfax tomorrow and then I am DONE for a week!!!) Oh dear I just saw a lovely reader had suggested a definite ‘yes’ to icing these little carrot loaves with cream cheese icing, but I was already […]
I have been in two minds about posting this uber-chocolatey cake recipe. I made it this week for my dear friend whose birthday had slipped by without a blip – so silently that it seemed outrageous for such a darling woman to be unacknowledged. Sooooo – I wanted to do a chokky cake as an […]
Well it’s been quite a while between tarts, so I thought I’d better get busy. I made this one a couple of times to get it perfect (you gotta do what you gotta do) – so now the pastry is super short with a lovely little crunch and I have made the vanilla custard centre […]
Happy Sunday morning to you 🙂 This is a quick little update on a recipe I posted a few years ago for Apple and Plum Anzac Crumble. Lately I have been thinking I really should post a feijoa recipe as they are everywhere in Auckland at the moment, and also I wanted to do an Anzac recipe update […]
Hello Valentines! Well this time last year I was writing up my recipe for Espresso Your Love Chocolate Mousse and bemoaning the fact that Nick would be in Chicago for Valentines Day – this year he’ll be in China! Ah well – at least we got to share some of this cheesecake before he left! […]
This is a recipe that I originally posted eons ago and thought it was time for an up-date. Banana bread has got to be one of the most comforting things to eat, and this one has the added bonus of a good helping of oaty fibre, and a liberal sprinkling of cinnamon sugar on […]
It has been so lovely having Henry home for the holiday, and I am so bummed that our time is already up! After a lovely relaxing stay out at Waiheke with gorgeous, hot, sunny weather, cruisey days and swims in the sea we are back in town battling flies and traffic – back to reality. […]
Helloooooo! This is a fab celebration recipe just in the nick of time for celebrations in the lead up to Christmas, and one of my recipes featured in the lovely winter issue of Dish magazine. Making these brought back childhood memories of my mum ferociously beating choux pastry in a saucepan, and while the recipe […]
Finally!!!!!! I have been so busy with work, I am so relieved to finally get a recipe up. OK, so this is my take on a Hummingbird cake, it’s a little less spongey and a bit moister than I think they usually are (!), and deliciously sandwiched with passion fruit curd before being slathered in […]