Category Archives: biscuits
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 [...]
Chocolate and cinnamon meringue
I don’t love macarons. I understand the attraction all crisp, soft and chewy with an acceptance and adaptability to different wild and wonderful flavourings. Sure, I like them and you know I’ll eat them by the bucketload but they don’t make my heart sing. I think I may have suffered a macaron overdose back in [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
