Fudge. Just the word makes me feel all happy. Unless I’m using the word as a replacement for another ‘f’ word when I hurt myself. But generally, when I say fudge, I’m talking about this…. My favourite fudge flavour is crème brûlée, which is available from a few places around here. Unfortunately it’s around $5.50 per 100g, [...]

Look Mum, I’m a grown up blogger! I thought these cookies would make an ideal Mother’s Day afternoon tea treat, and I’m telling people about it, a WHOLE ten days before Mother’s Day! Crazy, right?! I’m semi-organised! It feels a little odd, but I’m kinda liking it. And I’m liking these cookies too…. Up until [...]

For the purposes of this post, I would greatly appreciate it if you pretended to love paper doilies as much as I do. It would make me feel a tad more normal. Thankyouverymuch. See, you may or may not have guessed this, but I am a doily addict. I gave you a few clues, y’know, from the doily lace [...]

I hope one day I can grow up to be one of those super organised bloggers who can show you something a week or two before a holiday and say “here’s something you should make for (insert holiday/special occasion here) It’s colour coded and decorated perfectly to suit said occasion!” But so far I’m not a grown [...]

I am a fan of complicated, multiple component, and time consuming recipes. Which is weird, because I am not a patient person. I just love that feeling when all those pieces come together to create something amazing, tongue tingling and impressive looking. On the other hand, there is something that is just so satisfying about [...]

I like to think of myself as being in the business of making people happy. Except, I’m not actually in business. Or if I am, it must be some kind of volunteer gig, coz I am so not making any money from it. I get paid in happy. Which is enough for me, really. Although happy doesn’t [...]

So here’s a little something about me: I’m that person who answers far too quickly in cafes when I’m ordering a drink and they ask if I want whipped cream on top. “Do you want whipped cre-” “Yes please!” I feel bad sometimes for interrupting them. But mostly I don’t coz I’m too busy looking [...]

Last week it was my best friend Katie’s mum’s birthday. I don’t usually do fondant cakes for family birthdays (‘cept the major birthdays, of course), usually we all just prefer buttercream or cream filled cakes. However, since Katie’s parents also happen to have been our next door neighbours for 22 years but are moving out this week (*insert massive sad-face here*), [...]

I want to start this by saying I am not an expert on Coeliac disease, nor on gluten intolerance, and I am most definitely not a gastroenterologist.  Hell, I giggled when my Dad was explaining to me about him having issues with his villi (there were some Viagra jokes bandied about, can you see where [...]

It’s a New Year, and a new blog… I suppose I should make some kind of blog-related New Year’s resolution, but I’m afraid that may jinx the blog to the same fate as all those other resolutions… exercise more, eat less cake (ha! Like that’ll happen). So instead, how about I just make a vague [...]