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Confetti Layer Cake

May 9, 2012

Confetti Layer Cake - A colourful, fun cake with blue icing and lots and lots of hundreds and thousands for a boy's 8th birthday party

Tagged: | baking, birthday, birthday-party, blue, cake, confetti, layer, party

Cereal Nut Roll And Not So Sweet Chocolate Cake

April 3, 2012

An old fashioned nut roll tin find at a vintage thrift store gives birth to this Cereal Loaf and a weekend favourite recipe for a not so sweet Chocolate Cake

Tagged: | baking, breakfast, brown, cake, cereal, chocolate, kids, nut, old-fashioned, picnic, retro

Coconut Lime Cake With Rum Frosting

March 28, 2012

Coconut Lime Cake With Rum Frosting is a beautiful tropical cake that has a zesty fresh flavour steeped with the headiness of rum. A quick to bake, easy celebration cake!

Tagged: | baking, cake, coconut, cream cheese, green, high-tea, lime, liqueur, rum, summer, tropical, under the walnut sun, white

Nutella Butter Cake

March 8, 2012

A tried and trusted decade old butter cake recipe gets a fancy and delicious revamp with dollops of Nutella swirled through it. This gorgeous Nutella Butter Cake is made for a hot cup of coffee

Tagged: | baking, butter, cake, hazelnut, nutella

Chocolate Beetroot Pudding Cake

February 21, 2012

A rich and indulgent dessert that is slow baked in a water bath. The result is a delectable combination of flavours, the chocolate and beetroot marrying beautifully into one moist, brownie like pudding cake

Tagged: | baking, beetroot, brown, chocolate, dessert, party, pudding, red, sweet, water bath

Daisy Cake

February 9, 2012

Daisy Cake is a beautiful 2 layer, old-fashioned, home-made cake baked from Margaret Dunn's charming cookbook Mrs. Harvey's Sister-In-Law And Other Tasty Dishes. The cake has yellow and white layers, hence the name

Tagged: | baking, cake, coconut, daisy, high-tea, margaret dunn, mrs. harvey's sister-in-law, old-fashioned, orange, picnic, retro, white, yellow

Sugarplum Buttermilk Cake

January 5, 2012

One of the best things about our Thursday Farmer’s Market are the sugar plums. They are small, perfectly shape, tart and blood red. I am always amazed at their beautiful texture. Crunchy and juicy,

Tagged: | 101 cookbooks, baking, buttermilk, food-blog, food-blogger, healthy, heidi swanson, high-tea, lemon, plum, red, sugarplum, super natural every day, sweet

Milk Bundt Cake

December 17, 2011

Earlier this year I embarked on The Great Kitchenaid Challenge. I have owned a dear little frail looking Phillips hand mixer for ten years now. It has been my steady companion in all of

Tagged: | baking, bundt, cake, dairy, high-tea, kitchenaid, vanilla

Festive Walnut Babushka Cake

December 6, 2011

Christmas baking is all about sugar and spice that appeals to both naughty and nice. Okay, I agree. That was cheesy. Even for me. But I love sugar and spice with the fervour of

Tagged: | baking, cake, christmas, cinnamon, clove, honey, nutmeg, rice bran oil, sour cream, walnut, winter

Sticky Dark Chocolate Cake

November 17, 2011

With the extremely early arrival of my Christmas present – the iPad 2, I now have even fewer hours in my day than I did before. After being enslaved to it for a good

Tagged: | brown, brownie, cake, chocolate, party, rice bran oil

Lemon Cake

November 12, 2011

A plain lemon cake is a joy to eat fresh from the oven. It speaks summer like no other afternoon treat during hot days. Just like old fashioned lemonade it has the ability to

Tagged: | baking, cake, high-tea, lemon, picnic, summer, yellow

Purple Carrot Cake And Mr. Periwinkle

October 14, 2011

I miss winter. I really do. Even more so because spring is stuck in a limbo not being able to decide whether to warm up or stay cool. Winter this year was even more exciting

Tagged: | baking, cake, carotina oil, carrot, cinnamon, ginger, kraak eggson mysteries, orange, organic town, pecan, picnic, purple, purple carrot, sultanas

Dark Chocolate Sunflower Bundt Cake

September 9, 2011

I find baking in bundt pans very fiddly. I like ogling at cake pictures on sites like Sweetapolita and wondering "How the heck does she manage to get it out of that bundt completely

Tagged: | baking, birthday-party, brown, bundt, cake, celebration, chocolate, cocoa powder, cream, dessert, egg

Mandarin Polenta And Macadamia Cake

July 22, 2011

It has been an absolute mandarin fest in our home this month. After our very exciting mandarin picking adventure at a local farm here in Sydney and traipsing home with 11 kilos of mandarins,

Tagged: | baking, cake, flourless, macadamia, mandarin, nuts, orange, polenta

Childhood Chocolate Cake

June 8, 2011

If you’ve had a childhood constant in your life that loved to cook and bake whether it was your mum, dad, granny, favourite aunt, matronly neighbour or the nice old man at the corner

Tagged: | baking, birthday-party, brown, cake, chocolate, cocoa powder, golden syrup, kids

2 Minute Nutella Mug Cake

May 16, 2011

Mug cakes are like a round of gossip. You come across one, you indulge, you pine for more, you dig around for another one, you indulge some more until you are spent and then it

Tagged: | cake, dessert, microwave, nutella

Lemon Ricotta Cake With Chocolate Glaze And Fresh Figs

April 18, 2011

My little brother and his gorgeous wife have birthdays a week apart. I baked this simple cake with lush chocolate frosting and fresh fruit to honor both their birthdays yesterday. The fresh violas on top

Tagged: | fig, lemon, liqueur, rice bran oil, ricotta, viola

Cakewich – White Chocolate Sandwich Cake With Jam And Cream

March 10, 2011

My youngest hit the ripe old age of 3 earlier this year and with a maturity that only a 3 year old can have, he proclaimed "I am a Chef!". For the 2 months prior

Tagged: | baking, birthday-party, cake, cakewich, fred, novelty

Valentine’s Chocolate Brownie Cheesecake With Strawberries

February 13, 2011

Chocolates and strawberries must most definitely have been the food of the Gods. The more adventurous amongst the heavenly elites might have indulged in a bit of cream cheese as well. Definitely indulged in cream

Tagged: | baking, brown, brownie, cake, cheesecake, chocolate, dessert, marble, red, strawberry, valentines

Blueberry Cream Cheese Butter Cake

January 19, 2011

At a party for Noodles who is my friend Esther’s youngest, I had a blueberry cake that was utterly moist and delightful. Shame on me for not realizing the key ingredient that made it so

Tagged: | baking, blue, blueberry, cake, cheesecake, cream cheese