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Category: Recipes

  • Freestyle Dessert Cafe

    A few weeks ago a friend and I visited Freestyle Dessert Cafe in Rosalie. I just couldn’t go past visiting somewhere that calls itself a ‘Dessert Cafe’. We sat outside at a little table in the early spring sunshine, and agonised over the menu for a while, peeking looks at what other people had ordered.…

  • Strawberry Cupcakes

    Calling these “Strawberry Cupcakes” is a little misleading – they’re actually a plain butter cake, with strawberry flavoured icing. Much tastier than the lemon version below, and much prettier as well. (Soon I’m going to try and make a cupcake that looks more sophisticated, but I’m rather attached to the childish versions at the moment.)…

  • Lemon Cupcakes

    This wasn’t the most attractive or successful cupcake experiment. Not only did I go completely overboard with the icing (doesn’t it remind you of those little crabs at the beach that leave behind swirls of sand?), but the cake itself wasn’t enormously appetising – I grated the lemon rind too roughly, so that each cake…

  • Chocolate Cupcakes

    I’d never made cupcakes before, but I love the concept of little decorated cakes. Aren’t these cute? Next time I’m going to go for a slightly more adult colour – a deep red, or purple. I got the inspiration for this recipe from this, but changed the recipe to cater to the ingredients I had…

  • White Chocolate and Walnut Cookies

    I based these on this recipe, but due to stinginess I used walnuts instead of macadamias. I’m not a big fan of white chocolate, but I had bought a packet of white chocolate chips in the supermarket a few weeks ago, for reasons known only to some obscure part of my brain. So cookies were…

  • Gateau Lawrence

    This flourless chocolate cake is from a recipe book by Joanne Harris called French Kitchen, which helpfully includes an entire chapter on chocolate, including the chilli hot chocolate referred to in Chocolat. It’s extremely dense and heavy, a sticky feast of a cake, and as you can see from the above picture, very soft. The…

  • Angela's Stolen Easy Chocolate Torte

    Forgive the blurriness and general unattractiveness of the above photograph – the camera ran out of batteries at the critical moment. Don’t let it put you off trying this dessert, another recipe from the blonde and buxom Angela. We’ve decided to do a whole Stolen series with recipes from her ex-husband, and this one is…

  • Hot Dogs

    You know how sometimes, you just feel like a hot dog or four? It’s nice when you can cycle down to the shops and get the ingredients to fulfil that craving right away. I never buy hot dogs – they’re not all that readily available as fast food, being much more of an American thing.…

  • Chocolate Guinness Cake

    This is a Nigella Lawson recipe, from Feast. I was a bit hesitant about it – I don’t like beer, and I think Guinness is quite revolting. And beer and chocolate just sounds wrong. But the boyfriend often has Guinness in the fridge, so I stole one to try this cake. (It was the last…

  • Zucchini and Carrot Slice

    I love quiche, but can rarely be bothered to make pastry to accompany it, so an egg slice is a nice easy compromise. This is the first recipe in here that I’ve invented myself, judging amounts roughly from the times I’ve made similar dishes from recipes. It worked out perfectly – extremely simple, incredibly fast…