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Category : Baking

Little and Friday Banana Cakes with caramel & cream cheese icing

Little and Friday Banana Cakes with caramel & cream cheese icing

This recipe is from the very gorgeous book, Little and Friday, by Kim Evans. 2 cups flour 1 tsp baking powder pinch of salt 125g unsalted butter, softened ¾ cup caster sugar 2 eggs 3 cups mashed banana 1 tsp baking soda 4 tbsp hot milk 1 cup walnuts To assemble ½ cup Caramel ¼ [...]

Anzac Biscuits

Anzac Biscuits

In a speech to the East Otago Federation of Women’s Institutes, Professor Helen Leach, of the Archaeology Department of the University of Otago in New Zealand, stated that the first published use of the name Anzac in a recipe was in an advertisement in the 7th edition of St Andrew’s Cookery Book (Dunedin, 1915). This [...]

Upside Down Pear & Ginger Cake

Upside Down Pear & Ginger Cake

2 cups firmly packed brown sugar 250g butter, melted, cooled 2-3 pears, peeled, and sliced 1 cup golden syrup 2 eggs 1 teaspoon baking soda 2 1/2 cups flour 2 teaspoons ground ginger, sifted 1 teaspoon mixed spice ½ teaspoon ground cardamom 1 cup natural yoghurt Sprinkle 1/2 cup sugar over base of a greased [...]

Free Form Fruit Tart

Free Form Fruit Tart

This is a great rustic tart that uses whatever fruit is in season.  Beautiful with stone fruit and berries as well as apples, rhubarb and so on. 1&1/4 cups flour 3 Tblspns sugar 75g cold butter ½ tspn vanilla paste 2 Tblspns plain yoghurt 2-4 Tblspns cold water In a food processor whizz the flour [...]

Chocolate Caramel Brownie

Chocolate Caramel Brownie

200g dark chocolate 250g butter 1&1/2 cups brown sugar 4 eggs 1&1/3 cups flour ¼ tspn baking powder 1/3 cup cocoa 1 cup store bought caramel Melt butter and chocolate together until smooth.  Allow to cool for a few minutes and then add the brown sugar and eggs.  Mix well.  Stir in the flour, baking [...]

Cherry Clafoutis

Cherry Clafoutis

Clafoutis is a classic French dessert often made with cherries but works just as well with other fruit from berries to apricots, plums and so on.  For some reason, I expect the weird summer weather we have had, there has been a glut of yummy big cherries on the market at a great price so I [...]

Gingernut and Lemon Tart

Gingernut and Lemon Tart

You can whip this beautiful summer dessert up in no time!  And because it uses pre made (or bought if you are like me) lemon curd you can enjoy it anytime of year. 250g Packet of gingernuts (crushed) 100g melted butter 300mls cream 1 cup lemon curd – for a twist I used Cuisinescenes delicious [...]

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