Here is a blog post Lord Lamington himself could get behind! Seriously. There was such a guy. And you guessed it, this chocolate covered sponge cake rolled in coconut is named after his lordship. Lord Lammo, as I shall affectionately refer to him (for all Australians take proper words and then add an ‘o’ to the end, as [...]
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Double chocolate lamingtons
Posted in Cakes, Festive food, Slices, tagged Australia day, chocolate, chocolate lamingtons, food, humor, lamington recipe, lamingtons, recipce on 17 February 2013 | 14 Comments »
Red velvet monster cake with cream cheese frosting
Posted in Cakes, Festive food, tagged cake, cream cheese frosting, humour, recipe, Red velvet, red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting, Valentine's Day, Valentine's Day Cake on 5 February 2013 | 15 Comments »
With Valentine’s Day around the corner there a lot of amazing recipes springing up. I have had this red velvet cake waiting in the wings for a while now. Unsure when it would be appropriate to share it and all its quirkiness. Now I see it’s a perfect contrast to the other more typical Valentine [...]
Blueberry upside down cake
Posted in Cakes, tagged blueberry, blueberry upside down cake, cake, cakes, food, recipes, upside down cake on 21 August 2012 | 18 Comments »
I made this blueberry upside down cake for my brother as a goodbye and good luck cake. He is now in Europe, and will be gone for many months. I felt a cake that is made upside down is appropriate when someone is putting their life in a bag and travelling to the other side [...]
Chocolate mudcake with swiss meringue buttercream frosting – happy bloggiversary
Posted in Cakes, Desserts, tagged buttercream frosting, cake, chocolate, chocolate cake, chocolate mudcake, food, frosting, humor, layer cakes, mudcake, recipe, Swiss meringue buttercream frosting on 29 May 2012 | 26 Comments »
It takes a village to make a chocolate layer mudcake with swiss meringue buttercream frosting. It takes a village to even say something that long. I hadn’t made a layer cake or swisse meringue buttercream frosting before, so this took a bit of research.
Great-grandma’s pumpkin cake
Posted in Cakes, Desserts, tagged cake, food, fruit and pumpkin cake, pumpkin cake, recipes on 8 August 2011 | 21 Comments »
This recipe was passed on to me by an Aunty. It was passed to her by her Grandma. And now I’m passing it on to you! Great-grandma Beatrice was a farmers wife with four sons and one daughter. Practical recession-busting recipes like this were very much the go. But this recipe is by no means cheap on taste. [...]
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