Hey you! Yes, you there. Do you like looking in other people's houses? I don't mean peering in their windows (if you do that, you might wanna get some help), I mean either being invited into their home to see what they've done with the place, or checking out pictures of homes in fancy magazines, or on the interwebs. If that does interest you, then there is a distinct possibility you may enjoy this post. I won't say that it's quite up to the fancy magazine status, but since I can't invite you all around to our house to see our new kitchen renovation, I thought this might be an ok compromise... While I say "new", the kitchen was ... continue reading...
Kitchen Renovation (and My New Cake Pantry!)
Floral and Watercolour Bunny Cake Tutorial
This post contains affiliate links. You know when you’re going away, and a few days before you go, you have an idea for an Easter bunny cake tutorial, so you decide to “squeeze in” making it and writing the tutorial before you leave, instead of relaxing and saving your energy for the driving, and the people-ing, and all those things you don’t have energy for? And then you have to try and put the tutorial together and edit photos and videos and whatnot while trying not to be a rude guest at your friends' houses? No? You don’t do things like that? Then you, my friend, are wiser than me. Coz that is exactly what I just did, with this cute ... continue reading...
Ultimate Guide to Sugar Syrup for Cakes
If you're a regular reader you may recall that a while back I wrote a short post with 5 tips to help keep your cakes moist. It was never really intended to be an important post on the blog, it was more of a quick filler post between a couple of bigger tutorial posts I was working on. But it turned out to be really popular - people clearly want to know how to avoid a dry cake. And who can blame them? Despite my dislike of the “m” word, I too enjoy a nice moist cake. After all, I like my humour dry and my cakes moist. One of the tips I gave in that post was to use a simple syrup on your cake layers, and quite a few people asked me to ... continue reading...
Easy Caramilk Mousse
You know how sometimes you remember foods from your childhood and when you eat them again as an adult you wonder why you ever liked them? Well for me, Caramilk chocolate doesn't fall into that disappointing category of childhood nostalgia. It's still as good now as it ever was. I remember trying to describe this chocolate to my mother a few years ago, I knew it was made by Cadbury, and I knew it had "Cara" in the name, but I couldn't remember exactly what it was called. All I really remembered was that it was a caramel-ly flavoured white chocolate and I had enjoyed it and they hadn't made it for years. Mum didn't remember it at all ... continue reading...
White Chocolate and Strawberry Mousse
Apparently, it’s Valentine’s Day coming up, or so the entire internet is telling me. Whether you have a special someone to spend Valentine’s Day with or you'll be spending the day with your friends (or with your cat... like me 🙄) and you want to make a special dessert but also don’t want to use up a lot of energy, then boy oh boy (or girl oh girl) do I have the recipe for you! I was thinking of calling this "White Chocolate Mousse with Vanilla Macerated Strawberries", but frankly that fancy name belies the simplicity of the recipe. All we’re doing is making some ridiculously easy mousse, chopping up some strawberries, mixing them with a ... continue reading...
Easy Three Ingredient White Chocolate Mousse
If writing a blog has taught me anything over the past few years, it's that I know nothing about writing a blog. I've written posts that I thought would be really popular, that turned out not to be. And I've written quick little posts that I figured no one would read, that people went crazy about (especially the one that contained my least favourite word.) So way back when I posted a recipe for super easy 3 ingredient chocolate mousse, I really had no idea if anyone would even make it, let alone like it. I mean, I hoped they would. I hoped that people out there would get as excited as I did about the thought of having ridiculously ... continue reading...
Gluten Free Gingerbread Cookies
If you’re reading this just after I posted it, I know what you might be thinking. She’s posting a cookie recipe right after Christmas?! Aren’t bloggers supposed to do these things before the holidays? Well yeah, they probably are. But I do have a good excuse… I was planning to make these a while ago and share the recipe in time for all those folks who like to make gingerbread cookies before Christmas. Instead I’ve spent the past few weeks doing, well, as little as possible. Turns out I’m rather low in iron. And considering my energy levels barely get above half-full as it is, the low iron pretty much had me ruined. Luckily, after having a ... continue reading...
White Chocolate and Raspberry Fudge Slice
Life is hard. This white chocolate and raspberry fudge slice is easy. And it makes life better. And now that I’ve jumped right in with that inspirational pearl of wisdom, I should just get straight into talking about this slice before I make a real fool of myself. As far as recipes on this blog go, this is definitely one of the easiest. It’s a melt-and-mix job, and the melting happens in the microwave so you don’t even have to risk burning yourself on the stove. Or setting fire to your hair. Like I frequently attempt to do with our gas stove, always lighting one of the front burners instead of the back one I was intending to light. ... continue reading...
DIY Stand Mixer Attachment Organiser
We're still in organisation mode around here after having a whole brand-spanking new kitchen put in, and I've been trying to find new and wonderful ways to store my cake stuff. One of my biggest peeves when baking has been scrabbling around trying to find the right attachment for my mixer. We actually have two mixers in the kitchen, my Kitchen Aid, and my Mum's Breville scraper mixer, which each came with a paddle, a dough hook and a whisk. The KA also came with a splash-guard, and I purchased a scraper paddle for it too. Until now we'd had them all stored in a bread bin, which had sat on my cake-bench in our old kitchen in ... continue reading...
Choc Caramel Cheat’scakes ~ Simple Chocolate Caramel Cheesecakes
Once upon a time, there was a girl who wanted to make some Lemon Cheat’scakes - the easiest lemon cheesecakes the world had ever seen. So she went to her kitchen and prepared to make them. But alas, she had no lemons. Nor, as it turns out, did she have any plain biscuits… or white chocolate... An so it seemed she was not destined to have Lemon Cheat’scakes. But wait! There in her pantry she had chocolate biscuits! And caramel sauce! And dark chocolate! And thus, Chocolate Caramel Cheat’scakes were born. Believe it or not, that person with the sadly lacking pantry I’m referring to isn’t me, it’s my friend Loralee. She is the queen of ... continue reading...
Lightly Salted Caramel Sauce
Remember a couple of months back when I told you I had found "The One"? If you missed it, I'm not talking about a person (if my "One" guy is out there, he's so well hidden he must be wearing camouflage) but rather I found the one lemon curd recipe for me. Which led me to realise there's another soulmate recipe that I haven't shared with you yet. The One Caramel Sauce. And I already had plans for a dessert recipe using it so I thought I'd kill two birds with one stone and make them both so I could share them with you. So here it is! Lightly Salted Caramel Sauce. "Why is it a 'lightly salted' caramel recipe?" I hear you ask. (Or maybe ... continue reading...
Hand-Painted Cake Tutorial ~ Boho Inspired Cake
I'm going to make a little assumption here. You're probably reading this post because you fancy the thought of (or have been talked into) making a cake with a hand-painted design on it. And possibly you're thinking "Oh, ain't no way I can do that!". Well you know what, I reckon you can. Really. I have that faith in you. And also, I'm about to give you some Cake Painting for Dummies instructions on how to do it. Not that I think you're a dummy, because clearly you had the initiative to find a tutorial to help you on the road to a fabulously painted cake, and dummies wouldn't think of that. So instead of Cake Painting for Dummies, I'll call ... continue reading...
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