A Cavill-cade of lights and colour on Cavill Avenue My son George is just about to turn 12, so the night wasn’t that wild. But since he…… Read more “George’s wild weekend on the Gold Coast: Part 1 “Friday night”.”
Category: Dessert
Edited highlights: bare trees and summer memories
On Monday I worked from home as Spider Boy had a cold. It was also time for his plaster to come off. Once we got home from…… Read more “Edited highlights: bare trees and summer memories”
7 Halloween cupcake recipes… an Alexcellent roundup.
Halloween is tonight but you’ve just got time to bake some last-minute cupcakes. Here are some spooky-but-cute Halloween treats from around the web if you’re needing some…… Read more “7 Halloween cupcake recipes… an Alexcellent roundup.”
Fun with puff pastry: easy apricot turnovers and mini chocolate croissants
On Winter weekends I like to do what I can to improve my baking skills. This particular Sunday I decided to make apricot turnovers and a few…… Read more “Fun with puff pastry: easy apricot turnovers and mini chocolate croissants”
Review: Kurtosh House, where “gluttonous curiosity is to be explored”.
Señorita Margarita had told me there was a great bakery/cafe she wanted to share with me when I next trekked over to her neck of the woods.…… Read more “Review: Kurtosh House, where “gluttonous curiosity is to be explored”.”
Baking with yoghurt: Mango and vanilla yoghurt cake with white chocolate ganache
I love cake, but in my efforts to be healthier, I’ve been thinking about ways I could reduce the fat. No butter? Yes, it is possible to…… Read more “Baking with yoghurt: Mango and vanilla yoghurt cake with white chocolate ganache”
Ordinary joys: Bondi views, pudding and flowers from Spider Boy.
With all the bad news in the news, especially lately, I am even more grateful for my ordinary joys. While making sure my head remains above the…… Read more “Ordinary joys: Bondi views, pudding and flowers from Spider Boy.”
Edited Highlights: delightfully pink, playfully green. And trashy chocolate.
I should be posting Edited Highlights at the end of a week, not the beginning (and let’s face it, we’re rapidly sliding towards the middle of the…… Read more “Edited Highlights: delightfully pink, playfully green. And trashy chocolate.”
Edited highlights: chocolate pudding, snowdrops and other ordinary joys
I realise I seem to have developed a theme here in the past few weeks, namely involving snow, fake or otherwise, and chocolate. Well it IS winter! With all…… Read more “Edited highlights: chocolate pudding, snowdrops and other ordinary joys”
Mortifying muffins and eye-candy neighbours
I love baked goods. I own a lot of cookbooks. I look at baking blogs. I like to try to make something from the pages/posts of these…… Read more “Mortifying muffins and eye-candy neighbours”
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