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Chocolate Beetroot Pudding Cake

Chocolate Beetroot Pudding Cake

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

Vegetable Fritter Salad

Vegetable Fritter Salad

Vegetable Fritter Salad, is a delightfully crunchy and quirky salad made of spicy Indian bhajis served on a bed of salad greens and drizzled with a lemony sour cream dressing

Brown Mushroom Tortano

Brown Mushroom Tortano

Brown Mushroom Tortano - A gorgeous yeast Napolitan bread stuffed with balsamic glazed swiss mushrooms and stringy cheese. Perfect for picnics and barbecues

Frozen Peanut Butter Pie

Frozen Peanut Butter Pie

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

Sticky Dark Chocolate Cake

Sticky Dark Chocolate Cake

  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

Little Brown Bread

Little Brown Bread

  A few wednesdays ago, Gummi Bear announced that he was going to bake bread. He didn’t seem to care whether I was on board or not. He then proceeded to the kitchen and fished

Chocolate And Assam Tea Prune Brownies

Chocolate And Assam Tea Prune Brownies

  The inspiration for this brownie came from the Bourke Street Bakery cookbook. They have a delectable brownie recipe that calls for prunes macerated in alcohol for three days. As amazing as it sounds, I

Burnt Butter Caramel Slice

Burnt Butter Caramel Slice

    Burnt butter has always had a fancy schmancy ring to it for me. I have never tasted anything burnt butter, at least not anything that was pre-meditated. And that is exactly what happened

Dark Chocolate Sunflower Bundt Cake

Dark Chocolate Sunflower Bundt Cake

  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

Childhood Chocolate Cake

Childhood Chocolate Cake

  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

Valentine’s Chocolate Brownie Cheesecake With Strawberries

Valentine’s Chocolate Brownie Cheesecake With Strawberries

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

Dark Chocolate And Candy Cane Cookies

Dark Chocolate And Candy Cane Cookies

Every year on Christmas eve we set out a plate with two freshly baked Christmas themed cookies and a small glass of cold milk to wash them down. Yes, for Santa! We used to place

Coffee Cake With Cinnamon Walnut Crumble

Coffee Cake With Cinnamon Walnut Crumble

A recipe doesn’t have to come from a fancy schmancy cookbook to be really good. Take this recipe for a gorgeous coffee crumble cake that I found in The Sydney Morning Herald’s Good Living section.

Pan Fried Potato And Weisswurst Warm Salad

Pan Fried Potato And Weisswurst Warm Salad

  It is not everyday that your local fruit and vegetable shop has an oversupply of one of your favorite ingredients to cook with. This weekend I drove my family to the local fruit shop

Baked Ricotta And Mars Bar Hotcakes

Baked Ricotta And Mars Bar Hotcakes

  These past two weeks have been a whirlwind for me. Projects, kids, bus trips, socializing, gym, landscaping and the usual daily grind have kept me on my toes and I haven’t been posting on

Caramel Cinnamon And Fig Loaf

Caramel Cinnamon And Fig Loaf

  In need of a quick bread. Please, no banana! What do I have? What do I have? Lots of figs, dried ones at that. Hmmmmmm. Browse books, browse more books. Scan "fig" in the

Deliciously Moist Healthy Wholemeal Banana Maple Bread

Deliciously Moist Healthy Wholemeal Banana Maple Bread

  You have been forewarned. There are no delicious, crumbly, nut-flecked pictures of banana bread in this post. Continue reading at your own risk. Sorry about that little bit of melodrama, I just felt like

Chocolate And Date Fudge Brownies

Chocolate And Date Fudge Brownies

  These days everyone wants Bill Granger in their kitchen proclaims Sydney morning Herald. And I don’t blame them. This widely known Aussie chef has grown and matured into this masterful writer and creator of

Wheatgerm Honey And Raisin Muffins

Wheatgerm Honey And Raisin Muffins

  A few years ago when I first visited Australia on a holiday, I found a lovely little cookbook called Coffee & Bites by Susie Theodorou in a basement selling bargain books in Sydney. It

Double Chocolate And Macadamia Brownies

Double Chocolate And Macadamia Brownies

I recently got a copy of Belinda Jeffery’s Mix & Bake cookbook from my local library. It is full of delicious looking goodies and at the turn of every page, you have to stop yourself