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Chocolate, prune and rum biscuits

Bourke Street Bakery opened in Marrickville the perfect distance from my house a few months before I left. It was within walking distance, but not too close that I could just duck out for a brulee tart or chocolate croissant whenever I felt the urge, which was altogether too often. Last spring made itself known [...]

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Milan Cookies – Daring Bakers July Challenge

The July Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Nicole at Sweet Tooth. She chose Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies and Milan Cookies from pastry chef Gale Gand of the Food Network.   Biscuits remind me of home, family. My Grandma makes wonderful biscuits, my favourites are buttery and crisp with a dark chocolate round pressed into [...]

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The great Anzac Biscuit Debate.

Ginger Oat Biscuits (fake Anzacs), Anzac Biscuits Chewy or crunchy, soft or hard, dry or moist, how do you like your anzac biscuits? It seems as though every Australian family has their own recipe, and we all grow up comparing all others unfavourably, holding our childhood biscuits in the highest esteem. So, what better to [...]

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Lime drop biscuits

What do you do when you realise that your fridge is full of limes? Well, if you’re me, then you have a whole array of outlandish ideas, recipes that will take all day to make, cost an arm and a leg, require an ice-cream machine, or will turn your kgs of limes into a fridge [...]

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