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Vanilla Rice Pudding With Spiced Wine Poached Plums

April 30, 2012

A beautiful warming dessert of vanilla rice pudding served with spiced wine poached plums transforms an ordinary weeknight dinner into a special affair

Tagged: | autumn, plum, pudding, red, rice, spices, vanilla, white, wine

Honey Nut Shrikhand – Yogurt Dessert

April 16, 2012

A traditional Indian dessert gets a modern and healthy reboot. The Honey Nut Shrikhand is thick Greek yogurt drained of its liquid and sweetened with manuka honey. A gorgeous healthy dessert!

Tagged: | chilled, dairy, dessert, healthy, honey, nut, saffron, shrikhand, yogurt

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

Frozen Peanut Butter Pie

January 28, 2012

A jar of peanut butter is a wondrous thing. It has the power to reduce grown men and women into little children, greedily poking their fingers in the jar to scoop out and lick a

Tagged: | biscuits, brown, cheesecake, chilled, cream cheese, no cook, peanut butter, pie, sweet, tart

Pomegranate Dragon Fruit And Lychee Sorbet

January 21, 2012

I love pomegranates. I hate peeling or prepping them. One of my kitchen pet peeves along with refilling oil from the can into the oil bottle and cutting a pumpkin. I only get to eat

Tagged: | chilled, dessert, dragon fruit, fruit, gelato, lemon, lychee, pink, POM, pomegranate, red, sorbet, summer, tropical

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

Brown Bread And Rum Ice Cream

November 1, 2011

Brown Bread And Rum No Churn Ice Cream. Tell me you want it! Scream it to me! Because it is THAT good! It will make you feel like naughty and nice, you know? those

Tagged: | bread, chilled, dairy, dessert, ice cream, liqueur, orange, rum, summer

Vanilla Sustagen And Strawberry Pops. Win A Zoku Quick Pop Maker!

September 23, 2011

I was asked by the ever so lovely people at Kitchenware Direct to pick something from their amazing array of products to review and test run on the blog. Having done a beautiful pasta

Tagged: | chilled, dairy, dessert, giveaway, healthy, ice cream, kitchen gadgets, pops, review, strawberry, summer, sweet, vanilla, white, zoku

Tiramisu And My 200th Post

August 19, 2011

Sometimes when I am flipping through a cooking magazine or shopping at the deli, I become delusional. I have ideas of grandeur. The all empowering feeling of absolute surety that “Yes! I can bake that

Tagged: | chilled, dessert, italian, liqueur, sweet, tiramisu

White Chocolate And Coconut Truffles

April 4, 2011

I was totally making up a cake for an impromptu barbecue we were invited to over the weekend and because I was going to decorate the cake with fresh figs and violas, I thought that

Tagged: | birthday-party, chocolate, coconut, sweet, white

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

Impossible Lemon And Coconut Pies

July 1, 2010

I have always wondered why these are called "Impossible". But that is just the kind of easy style that Donna Hay has going on in her cookbooks. After making them countless times, I think I

Tagged: | baking, coconut, dessert, lemon, pie, pudding, sweet, winter

Vintage Fruit Labels And A Bistro Cheesecake

May 24, 2010

[donotprint][/donotprint] I have a dream. Some day I want to own a dear little bistro in a quiet little street lined with big old trees. I want this little place to be a haven for

Tagged: | baking, bistro, cheesecake, dessert, fruit

Passionfruit Ice Cream

April 14, 2010

Gorgeous Passionfruit ice cream recipe to beat Sydney's summer heat. Fresh passion fruit is the most delicious of fruits with its juicy pulp and crunchy seeds. This ice cream has a very refreshing and tropical tangy taste

Tagged: | dairy, dessert, fruit, ice cream, passionfruit, summer

Express Espresso Tia Maria Tiramisu

September 3, 2009

With a title so lyrical, how can you not be tempted? Last night in a moment of insanity that only extreme lovers of food and all things sweet exhibit, I decided to make tiramisu

Tagged: | coffee, dairy, dessert, liqueur, valentines

Croissant And Cranberry Pudding

May 6, 2009

The other night dinner was cooked and ready way before dinner time. Which is a very rare occurrence in our home as I struggle to work and also cook up something on the side to

Tagged: | autumn, baking, cranberry, croissant, dessert, fruit, pudding

Cheesecake Berry Trifle

April 30, 2009

I made this delightfully simple dessert for Easter. It requires no cooking or baking, just some assembling of ingredients, some whisking and putting it all together. It is one of the fastest desserts I have

Tagged: | cheesecake, dessert, fruit, pudding, summer

Green Apple Pancake Pudding for NTTC April 2009

April 8, 2009

I was inspired to make this fabulous and fast dessert recipe from one of Bill Granger’s breakfast recipes. He cooked an apple pancake in a skillet and suggested dousing it with a generous helping of

Tagged: | apple, breakfast, nttc, pancakes, pudding

Rose Petal Ice Cream

March 10, 2008

[Note : I have decided to submit this entry to my first ever Weekend Herb Blogging hosted this week by Kel at Green Olive Tree. Thank you White On Rice Couple for directing me

Tagged: | dairy, dessert, natural

Mango And Toasted Coconut Semifreddo

February 8, 2008

Mango And Toasted Coconut Semifreddo created from Donna Hay magazine's gorgeous launch issue. Bright, beautiful and full of lovely texture, this cool treat is a summer staple in our home