Tag Archives: chocolate
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 [...]
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 [...]
(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 [...]
A contrary Spring, Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Biscuits.
Spring is not behaving. I mentioned it before, when a sticky date decadence appeared earlier in October, but this is just out of control. Miserable rain, blustery conditions have seen Sydneysiders unpack their recently mothballed winter clothes and grudgingly pull their heavy jackets back into service. Only to be followed mere days later by midsummer [...]
Chocolate and Cheesecake Olympic Brownies – just do it.
Tonight I just wanted to whip up something sweet, quick and easy. Something decadent to savour while watching the Olympics (hey, I’m not an Olympian so I may as well eat cake). So, I searched out a recipe for dark chocolate brownies mixed up with simple cheesecake which sounded delicious, but boring. The outcome, however, [...]
