The scent of cookies fresh from the oven is simply intoxicating. It stops people in their tracks as their eyes glaze over and their speech trails off. "Oh, are you baking cookies?" is uttered with an air of desperate nonchalance, darting glances search for a serving plate or cooling rack. Cookies don't require formality, although they are equally at home perched daintily on the edge of a china saucer as clasped in a grubby toddler hand. They can be delicate and crisp, soft and oozy, … [Read more...]
Perfect Peach Pie
Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end. -- Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 I'm particularly particular about pie. Especially fruit pie. It should be made using fresh fruit, nothing pre-packed or pre-mixed, nothing from a can, nothing labeled with the word 'filling'. It should be sweet, but not too sweet. Syrupy due to juiced released, not fillers added. Spiced, bubbly, impossibly … [Read more...]
Peanut Butter, Banana & Chocolate Bites – aka Skinny Fat-Elvis Truffles
Roughly a year or so ago I shared a pic of this lovely little treat, but it was only this morning I got around to making it again and taking decent pics. Why now? Well I'm hosting Sweet Adventures Blog Hop once again this month and rather than just tell you the theme I figured I'd kick off with a recipe too! December SABH is about celebration and versatility, all wrapped up in the perfect bite-size dessert -- Heavenly Holiday Truffles! The details: Theme: ‘Heavenly Holiday … [Read more...]
Baked Ricotta Cheesecake with Fig & Strawberry Compote
This story begins and ends with me eating cake for breakfast so, if you get worried along the way, be safe in the knowledge that everything will be ok. On cheesecake and fat If you are going to eat cheesecake just accept that it should be full fat. You can try to mess with it, go low-fat, but honestly ... why bother? It's cheesecake. I'm not going to get into the pro/con argument over fat, there are plenty of people leading that particular charge just fine on their own, but keep in mind … [Read more...]
Tahini & Raspberry Power Breakfast Shake – a PB&J twist
After taking September off from the Secret Recipe Club while we ate our way across the US, I'm back with a bang and excited to explore all the lovely creations that appear each month. My SRC assignment for October was Baking and Creating with Avril and as usual I was spoilt for choice. I took to her side-bar tags for inspiration and the first thing to catch my eye was a Pumpkin Swirl Bread, however as I've been a bit heavy handed with the pumpkin lately I figured I'd simply bookmark it … [Read more...]
Pumpkin & Coconut Cake Bites – Vegan and Sugar Free
If you're going to bother roasting pumpkin you may as well cut up a few kilos. It only takes a few extra minutes for the cutting, doesn't require any longer in the oven, and means you can make a plethora of pumpkin creations to suit any mood. I'm actually guest posting over at Swah's blog today while she eats her way across America-land so I'll make this brief, but the whole pumpkin I roasted last week made its way first into these cookies then into Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream (with a few … [Read more...]
Vegan Pumpkin Pie Ice Cream & Halloween Ice Cream Bars
Pumpkin makes me think of autumn, simple as that. Overflowing bins of carving pumpkins just crying out to become jack-o-lanterns. Costumes and candy and festive parties and crazy decorations. The promise of Pumpkin Pie at rapidly approaching holiday dinners. I've said it before and I'll say it again, no matter how long I live in Australia I still associate end of year holidays with cold weather -- and Halloween falls firmly in this category. People in many parts of the world don't … [Read more...]
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