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Chocolate peanut butter cake

I have written before about how lucky I am to receive copious of amounts of cookbooks to review in my day job as a journalist. It seems every blogger and his dog has a book these days and some tomes are waaaay better than others. Putting my professional impartiality to one side for a moment I must confess that the books I enjoy reviewing the most are those published by the venerable Australian Women’s Weekly. I have been using their books for decades, as have my mum and nana. Their recipes always work and recently their books have undergone a stylish transformation. Continue reading →

Tags: Australian Women's Weekly, baking, buttermilk, cake, chocolate, cookbooks, cooking, delicious, easy, from scratch, peanut butter, peanuts, recipe

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Categories Cakes, Dessert, Fast & simple

Nigella Lawson French cake – Gateau Breton

26 May

Many, many moons ago, when I was an unfortunate-looking teenager, my dad went on a holiday to France. My envy was palpable – growing up in a run-of-the-mill Sydney suburb all one ever heard about France was the chicness of the population, the deliciousness of the food and the classic style of the clothing. Continue reading →

Tags: baking, Breton, cake, egg, France, French, from scratch, lemon, Nigella Lawson, recipe

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Categories Cakes, Other sweet stuff, Tarts and Pies

Donna Hay blueberry and lemon cake

11 Feb

Oh Donna, let me the count the ways in which your baking recipes make my heart flutter… Actually, that would take far too long because Ms Hay’s cakes, tarts and muffin recipes always work. Devotees would note that I am Donna hay’s biggest cheerleader and this super simple recipe is yet another winner. Continue reading →

Tags: baking, blueberry, cake, cooking, dessert, Donna Hay, easy, from scratch, lemon, recipe, sugar

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Iced Vo Vo Cake for Australia Day

24 Jan

If you’re reading this in the northern hemisphere the title of this post may seem nonsensical. Australia readers [and maybe New Zealanders] will get it: this cake pays homage to a biscuit that many of us grew up with. Made by Arnotts it is plain vanilla bickie with puffy pink marshmallow topping and a river of raspberry jam down the centre. The whole creation is then sprinkled with desiccated coconut. Sickly? A bit. To children of a certain generation they were the ultimate in lunchbox treats.

With Australia Day looming Miss8 and I decided to do a riff on this old fav, using cake instead of cookie, as the base. Continue reading →

Tags: Australia Day, baking, biscuit, cake, coconut, cooking, from scratch, iced Vo Vo, marshmallow, pink, Raspberri Cupcakes, recipe, Stay At Home Mum, strawberry jam

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Categories Cakes, Other sweet stuff

Flourless chocolate hazelnut cake (gluten-free) and a weekend away in Crookwell NSW.

15 Aug

How I love a country getaway! When an escape to the country is also a girl’s weekend away it is close to perfection. Continue reading →

Tags: AWW, bake, birthday cake, brown sugar, cake, chocolate, Crookwell, flourless, from scratch, gluten-free, hazelnut, weekend away

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Apple surprise bundt cake

8 Jul

It will come as no surprise to Hungry Mum devotees that I adore bundts. In fact you may be heartily sick of me posting about these cakes but I just can’t get enough of their buttery goodness. Continue reading →

Tags: apple, bake, baking, bundt, cake, cinnamon, fast, recipe, simple

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Lemon and vanilla madeleines

30 Jun

Not only is Madeline the name of some of our very best friend’s daughters, but also the name of a delightfully light sweet morsel.

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Tags: Australian Women's Weekly, baking, butter, cake, easy, from scratch, lemon, madeleines, madeline, vanilla

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Categories Cakes, Fast & simple

Spiced roulade with vanilla buttercream

27 May

I fell in love with the book ‘Bake – Essential Companion’ by pastry queen Alison Thompson after borrowing it from the library and my lovely hubby surprised with a copy of my own for mother’s day last year.

If you’re a baking fanatic like me you’ll have hours of kitchen fun with this book. I’d never attempted a roulade until this one and I must say, I was very nervous. I did have a few problems with cracks in my cake and totally panicked until the Hungry Dad came to my rescue [swoon] and solved the issue with some ingenious use of plastic wrap. And the finished product was utterly delectable. I omitted the original recipe’s ¼ teaspoon ground cloves as my pantry was clove-free. Continue reading →

Tags: Alison Thompson, bake, cake, classic, cookbook, from scratch, ginger, recipe

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Categories Cakes, Dessert, recipe

Donna Hay chocolate and banana bread recipe

11 Apr

Looking back I really should have named my blog ‘Donna Hay’s biggest fan bakes’ for that pretty much sums up my approach to cooking and blogging. And life, really. Continue reading →

Tags: baking, banana, cake, chocolate, Donna Hay, easy, from scratch, how to make, recipe

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Categories Cakes, Other sweet stuff

Easy lemon yogurt cake

23 Mar

Baking with lemon creates such a lovely fresh smell throughout your kitchen that you’ll wonder why you ever bake anything else. This super simple cake is just delish for morning tea, and is perfect with a liberal dusting of icing sugar. The recipe is from my stand-by AWW Quick Mix Cakes book, and all I did was reduce the amount of sugar from the suggested one cup.

Gather:

125g butter at room temp, diced

2 teaspoons grated lemon rind

2 eggs

¾ cup caster sugar

1 ½ cups self-raising flour

¾ cup plain yogurt

Let’s get to it:

Preheat oven to 170C and grease and line a 14cmx21cm loaf tin with baking paper.

Put all ingredients into bowl of electric mixer and beat until light and changed in colour.

Scrape into pan and bake for 50-60 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean.

Allow to cool in pan for 10 minutes before cooling completely on wire rack.

Serve as is, or make up a simple icing by mixing 2/3 cup sifted icing sugar with 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice and enough water to make a pouring consistency. Sprinkle over extra lemon zest.