Category Archives: cake
Chocolate beer cake.
The combination of chocolate and beer isn’t new, I hear they even have a chocolate beer out of Sapporo now, but I never considered it a viable option until recently. I figure it was an inevitable next step though, on account of my beer drinking finally catching up to my chocolate eating. A large beer [...]
Passion fruit curd cake
What came first? Oh the horrid poultry question that endless drunken nightmare conversations have failed to answer. But I can tell you that the idea of the cake came first, after the purchase and subsequent wrinkling of the passion fruit, but before the making of the curd. I could draw you a timeline, like an [...]
Honey Cake for Rosh Hashanah
For as long as I can remember food has been the centre of my attention. My favourite book as a very young child was The Poky Little Puppy not because of the cute inquisitive dog, but because of the Strawberry Shortcake reward. Seriously, go read it, it’s like gateway food porn.
Qöm’s Persian love cake
Like many in the developed world I’ve been penny pinching, but I’m not GFC scared just saving for a rainy day. Plus I guess you could call me cheap frugal. Steering clear of shops is my M.O, especially book shops, so please forgive me for not noticing the road train that is 4 ingredients rolling through. Apparently it is [...]
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 [...]
