This recipe uses vanilla bean sugar and is made in a food processor. The end result is a shortbread with a light, ‘fluffy’ texture rather than a chewy biscuity one. Click here for: Blog post – Shortbread – With Vanilla Bean Sugar!
Beetroot – A Fascinating Cake!
An amazing feature of this recipe is that when you make the batter it looks like the cake has been made from raspberries! Click here for: Blog post – Beetroot – Salads, two Dips, one Cake!
Lemon Curd Sponge – Light, Lemony, Creamy!
This is an inspired combination bringing back wonderful memories: two sponge cakes, made from an old family recipe, layered together with lemon curd and cream! Click here for: Blog post – A January Dinner Party
Christmas Sink Cake – Great for a Crowd!
A versatile recipe for Christmas and other times you need to feed a crowd. You can modify the ingredients in many ways, varied according to what you have on hand! Click here for: Blog post – What’s in the Fridge? No. 9
Homemade Scones – With Jam and Fresh Cream
My mother, Olive, would make scones reasonably often. She used the “old fashioned” way of rubbing butter into the flour and she used to cook them in her wood-fired cast iron stove! For the recipe, click here – Scones, Jam and Cream
Pecan Pie – With Maple Syrup!
Pecan pie is one of the traditional dishes of the USA. This recipe gives a pie that will set with a crusty top and almost gooey interior! For the recipe, click here – Pecan Pie
Strawberry Blonde Cheesecake – With Chocolate Sauce!
A full page from the newspaper was taped to the glass door. It included a photo of a large slice of strawberry crowned cheesecake and the words “the strawberry blonde cheesecake is to die for and worth the month on the treadmill”! For the recipe, click here – New York City – The Big Cheesecake!
Fig and Almond Torta – Perfect For Other Fruits!
A highlight was a fig and almond torta … not too sweet and the figs can be substituted with any fruit in season such as peaches, pears or plums! For the recipe, click here – Indigo Valley – Home Grown Produce!
Clafoutis – Spectacular French Classic!
“… it is about as simple a dessert to make as you can imagine: a pancake batter poured over fruit in a fireproof dish, then baked in the oven.” For the recipe, click here – Nature, History … And Clafoutis!
Banana Bread – Bananas, Cream, Butter!
Our friends raved about the morning tea of banana bread and were a little surprised to find that it was thrown together at the last minute from what we had in the freezer! Click here for: Blog post – Banana Bread
- Page 1 of 2
- 1
- 2