Study procrastination does amazing things sometimes. While Jay has been in Sri Lanka (he’s home tonight YAY!!!), I’ve been fairly productive. This morning I cleared out my wardrobe, I’ve done all the Christmas shopping, visited both sets of my grandparents, been to Wollangarra and made my first ever gingerbread house. I asked for tips on […]
Category Archives: Baking
Rhubarb Upside Down Cake
Whenever I have too much fruit I make an upside down cake. And I thought how delicious and decadent would it be to make an upside down cake with the champagne baked rhubarb. I gently curled the rhubarb around the base of the sugared cake pan, then poured the batter over the top and slid […]
Dulce de Leche Brownies
What, can I ask, is more decedent than dulce de leche brownies? A few months ago now I made my friends wedding cake, it was a grand cake, 3 tiered, all different flavours with dulce de leche between the layers. I made the dulce de leche by boiling a can of condensed milk for 3 hours, […]
Egg Free Banana Muffins
We do a group activity most mornings, and most days we need to pack food and all of those days the food needs to be nut free and egg free. Egg free to the extent that it can’t even be in baking. So I’ve set myself mission to find a good egg free muffin recipe. […]
Cheesy-Mite Scroll
I know Australia Day was yesterday and I’m a little late to the party but I really wanted to share this cheesy-mite scroll recipe and a little about my first baking experience with Elliot. I love to bake, sugary sweet treats, muffins, cookies, cakes anything but I also love to be ordered, quick and in […]
Seasonal Fruit Crumble
This weekend was a scorcher in Melbourne, over 40 degrees both Saturday and Sunday. Sunday morning I’d had enough of sitting inside hiding from the heat, so we ventured about 10 minutes up the road to our friends pool. It was a lovely way to spend the morning, changed up the day a bit, got […]
Little Sugar Cookies
When we arrived in Bundaberg, the first thing we did (after dumping out bags in our rental house) was to head over to visit Jay’s Mum and Dad. We’d had a big day of travelling and so sat down and enjoyed a cuppa while they played with Elliot. Jay’s Mum, Dell, brought out these amazing […]
Wedding Cake Part 2
This is the second installment about the wedding cake that I baked, built, constructed and decorated. You can see part 1 here. We gently packed the four cakes (still wrapped in glad wrap), the 3 tubs of icing, the berries that were to be the decoration, the caramel and the crushed peanut-less brittle into the […]
Wedding cake part 1
When I baked my birthday cake I never expected that it’d result in me cooking a wedding cake. But when my friends asked me to make their cake after tasting mine, I was so honoured that I could never have said no. I started researching and planning straight away. I was on the phone to the […]
Christmas Cake
I know you’re probably screaming at me, “Clare, it’s only October!” And I hear you I really do. I love me some Christmas cheer but prior to December 1st, I’m the Grinch! The exception is of course, food. You need time and love to go into your Christmas food. Some need to sit for months […]
Sweet Lemon Scrolls
When life hands you as many lemons as I’ve got at the moment, then you’ve really got to use your imagination with how you use them. I’ve made lemon slice, limoncello, squeezed and frozen juice in cubes. I’ve made preserved lemons, and have been drinking them in warm water to start the day. I really […]
White Chocolate and Cranberry Cookies
Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar? Who me? Yes you! Couldn’t be. Then who? Ok, it was me. These are bloody delicious! Super morish! And make a delicious morning, afternoon tea, or dessert, or lunch… I may have even eaten one for breakfast! They’d also make the perfect ice-cream sandwich cookie. The negative […]
