Category Archives: cake

Browned butter date loaf

Sometimes plans are well considered and made, executed to a tee and expectations are met. Other times spontaneity rules. Then there are the situations where everything happens by coincidence, this date loaf could be used as a case study for the outcomes of coincidence. No, the browned butter and sugar didn’t have an accidental collision [...]

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David Lebovitz’s Fresh Ginger Cake

Molasses, yet another long derided, overlooked and misunderstood ingredient in my kitchen. It reminded me of Little House on the Prairie, wholesome for humans and horses both. In other words, not my kind of comestible. Growing up we always had a jar of blackstrap molasses hanging around. It was an essential ingredient in PMum’s revolting [...]

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Carob Molasses Cake with honeyed ricotta

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Made from the pulp of the carob fruit. It is sweet and deep and delicious in its own right. Please don’t use it as a substitute for chocolate, everyone will be disappointed.
Recipes: Carob molasses cake with honeyed ricotta

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Cocoa brownies + my 201st post on Pikelet and Pie

Excuse me please, things have been a little bit crazy over here. Trying out loads of new food has been taking up some time (from ‘Vietnamese’ BBQ to frozen margaritas), there has been the farewelling of friends (you wouldn’t believe how difficult it is to send a dog to America from Hanoi), and now I’ve [...]

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Orange and cinnamon buns

I love hot cross buns, but while their wintery spices and warming wholesomeness are perfect for the autumnal southern hemisphere conditions, it doesn’t quite gel where the weather is getting progressively hotter. Plus, hot cross buns are available in Hanoi, but not in the quality or quantity of Sydney, so I would have to make [...]

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