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Chocolate orange cake with orange blossom cream, A Secret Dinner dessert

What to serve for dessert for 30 people? Even the most kitchen and food challenged amongst us could guess that a souffle was out. Simple classics like tiramisu were ruled out too as they ranked too high on the boring scale. It was a no as well to creme brulee, traditional pannacotta and other sweet [...]

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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 the top. [...]

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Chocolate and Walnut Strudel – Daring Bakers

The May Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Linda of make life sweeter! and Courtney of Coco Cooks. They chose Apple Strudel from the recipe book Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Cafés of Vienna, Budapest and Prague by Rick Rodgers.

In my mid teens I escaped the boring farm life and headed to the big city [...]

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Happy Birthday to Me – Pikelet and Pie turns 1!

A year ago today I made this area for random ramblings a dedicated food blog. It was the Easter long weekend and I was relaxed. I had just started a graduate job and was reveling in the idea of having a whole long weekend off, I kept having to remind myself that I had graduated from uni [...]

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(Green) Chocolate Mousse

I am a very, very lucky food blogger, but I have been negligent with spoils of my luck, and for that I apologise, sorry! Months ago (months!) I was fortunate enough to win a prize from Nicky of the beautiful blog Delicious Days by identifying the rose apple/wax jambu. The prize? Delicious Days, the cookbook.
A few weeks [...]

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