Archive | July, 2012

Donna Hay fast melt and mix chocolate coconut cake

19 Jul

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You may already know I worship at the shrine of Donna Hay. My bible is Modern Classics Book 2 and it is a well-thumbed book. When a lovely friend at work announced she was leaving for an amazing job opportunity I knew a choc cake was in order. Continue reading

Chocolate orange shortbread biscuits / cookies

16 Jul

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I may have mentioned that chocolate orange is my favourite sweet flavour combination. Maybe I was just thinking it. Either way, whenever I see a choc orange recipe I am all over it.  These are lovely and so moreish – you will eat many. This is adapted from Simply Recipes. Continue reading

Breakfast idea: sticky lemon rolls with cream cheese frosting

12 Jul

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When it comes to breakfast I always choose savoury over sweet. I don’t *get* how people can eat muffins before noon and call it a meal. After making these ever-so-scrumptious sticky lemon buns with cream cheese frosting I almost understand the idea of a sweet breakfast. Continue reading

Easy Bailey’s chocolate birthday cake – a cake with booze

7 Jul

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It was a friend at work’s birthday so obviously a cake would be baked. What could be better than a chocolate cake? How about, a chocolate cake with lovely Bailey’s? Continue reading

Delicious caramel surprise vanilla cupcakes via the Eat Sweet blog

3 Jul

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Blog hopping is my favourite waste of time lately and I especially love seeing what all those creative baking-types are up. I recently stumbled across the oh-so-pretty eat sweet blog and swooned when I saw her jersey caramel chocolate cupcakes. I knew I had to make them so it was off to the shops for a bag of these delicious, so very sweet lollies. I made my cakes vanilla, rather than the original chocolate, although I reckon choc and caramel is always a winning combination.

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