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Chocolate chip hot cross buns

Posted in Breads and scones, Festive food, How-to guide, tagged , , , , on 19 March 2013 | 12 Comments »

Welcome to part two of my hot cross bun Easter super-special! Part one was traditional hot cross buns if that’s what you’re after. I’ve been surprised to learn since my first post that hot cross buns are somewhat local to the UK, Australia and NZ. So, for my lovely American readers, these are an Easter bun (historically [...]

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How to make hot cross buns

Posted in Beginners guide, Breads and scones, Festive food, How-to guide, tagged on 4 March 2013 | 11 Comments »

Look what I did! Look look! So proud. Don’t worry, I’ve got step by step instructions for you too. And yes, they do taste better than store bought. Promise. I did lots of research on this one. Combined three different recipes, checked what my favourite baker puts in his. Then, I made them again tweaking [...]

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Double chocolate lamingtons

Posted in Cakes, Festive food, Slices, tagged , , , , , , , on 17 February 2013 | 14 Comments »

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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Red velvet monster cake with cream cheese frosting

Posted in Cakes, Festive food, tagged , , , , , , , 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 [...]

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Cherry, chocolate, cornflake and coconut cookies (the everything cookie)

Posted in Cookies, Festive food, tagged , , , , , , , , , on 28 January 2013 | 16 Comments »

These are unmistakably homemade cookies. They’ve got that chunkiness to them, and randomness of ingredients like cornflakes and cherries, that no mass producing cookie company would ever market.

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