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White Chocolate Cheesecakes
It’s Valentines Day tomorrow and we have a special tradition in our fairly new family and that is to celebrate the day as a family. To cut a long story short – my husband and I also have another anniversary in early March, … Continue reading
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Olive Oil and Sauternes Cake with Roast Pears
Once again I get to raphsodise about yet another Neil Perry masterpiece. I found this recipe while I was trawling through my Neil Perry file looking for one of his Thai curries to cook. I was thinking that something hot, spicy and … Continue reading
Lamingtons
Back in Australia, in the very early 1900’s, when Lady Lamington presented her husband with these newly created cakes, you think his response might have been ‘ how lovely my dear’ instead he referred to them as “those bloody poofy woolly biscuits“. … Continue reading
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Momofuku Chocolate Malt Cake
I have one word for this cake and it’s ‘insane’ – on so many levels, to look at, to taste and to bake. It is all worth it though because once you get a mouthful of this magnificent gooey, … Continue reading
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Red Velvet Cupcakes with Cream Cheese Frosting
It’s hard to pass up a really good red velvet cupcake, it can also be quite hard to find one. The best I have ever had was from Sweet Mandy B’s in Chicago. If you know of it, I am … Continue reading
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Hazelnut Brown Butter Cake
I had every intention of providing you with some sort of boozy recipe (a bellini perhaps?) so you could welcome in 2011. But it did not eventuate – a day of sledding and building snow forts in Central Park took … Continue reading
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Il Duomo (Zuccotto)
I think there is something very festive about a Zuccotto, I seem to make one whenever we are celebrating important occasions – this year it is Christmas. It is taking the place of our classic Christmas Pudding and Mr Man … Continue reading
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Brown Sugar Butterfly Cakes with Raspberry Cream
There is something very whimsical about a butterfly cake. They take me back to childhood. Back to childrens birthday’s, tea parties with a crowd of dolls and stuffed animals and back to one of my very initial baking experiences. I … Continue reading
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Goat’s Cheese Cake with Figs and Honey
I would love to romanticise this cheesecake with tales of long ago. It could have been first documented as the celebration cake for the Greeks when they conquered Troy or perhaps it could have been the favourite dessert of … Continue reading
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