Posted in Cakes, Slices, tagged Australia day, chocolate, chocolate lamingtons, food, humor, lamington recipe, lamingtons, recipce on 17 February 2013| 14 Comments »
Here is a blog post Lord Lamington himself could get behind! Seriously. There was such a guy. And you guessed it, this chocolate covered sponge cake rolled in coconut is named after his lordship.
Lord Lammo, as I shall affectionately refer to him (for all Australians take proper words and then add an ‘o’ to the end, as in the case of lamington to lammo), was Governor of Queensland from 1896 to 1901.
Posted in Cookies, tagged cherries, chocolate, christmas, coconut, cookie monster, cookies, cornflakes, humor, recipe, recipes on 28 January 2013| 16 Comments »
These are unmistakably homemade cookies. They’ve got that chunkiness to them, and randomness of ingredients like cornflakes and cherries, that no mass producing cookie company would ever market.
Posted in Slices, tagged best, brownie, chocolate, humor, raspberry, raspberry brownie, recipe on 14 January 2013| 19 Comments »
When I say rich raspberry brownie, I really, really mean rich. This is the stuff heart attacks and sugar crashes are made of.
It’s one of the best recipes I’ve come across for simplicity, and a simultaneous crowd pleasing factor. (more…)
Posted in Muffins, tagged apple muffin, apple white chocolate custard muffin, apple white chocolate muffin, custard muffin, custard powder, food, humor, muffin, recipes, white chocolate on 5 January 2013| 11 Comments »
Let me tell you a story about men, and the mystery of custard powder.
While serving these Apple and White Choc muffins up to a couple of visitors at my house, a man asked “how do you get the custard in?”
Good question. Very good question.
Well. I said. (I hesitated here…should I lie?) I used custard powder. I’m not quite sure what else he thought I would have done. (more…)
Posted in Cupcakes, tagged buttercream frosting, chocolate buttercream frosting, chocolate cupcake recipe, chocolate mud cupcakes, cupcakes, food, freezing cupcakes, humor, recipes on 6 November 2012| 16 Comments »
This is the last of the three part cupcake series. And I have saved the best for last – amazingly dense and rich chocolate mud cake, and the best chocolate buttercream frosting I’ve ever used for piping.
There are some important things we need to cover here, so I’m going to be all business today. (more…)
Clever muffin 