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Roast Pumpkin Cookies
It is Christmas Cookie season again, and you may have noticed from some of my recent posts that I've been doing some baking. Along with...
Dec 26, 2021
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Tempering and Flavouring Chocolate : Attempt 3 - Making bars
The Domestika course I am doing introduces three different architectural textures to replicate in chocolate - terrazzo, marble and...
Dec 21, 2021
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Ginger Snaps: Revisited
Ginger Snaps are always a favourite at this time of year, and baking a variety of Christmas cookies is a joy of the season (as perhaps...
Dec 18, 2021
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Basler Christmas Cookies: Revisited
I first tried making these for myself last year, but as they are traditional here, I grew up eating them at this time of year, and they...
Dec 16, 2021
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Chestnut Puddings
I've always loved chestnuts in any shape or form, especially roast chestnuts. They always speak to me of Christmas markets, friends and...
Nov 24, 2021
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Pear and Almond Chocolate Muffins
I was talking to family in Hawaii recently, and it was evening for them, morning for me. They were having corn muffins with dinner, so I...
Oct 12, 2021
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Tempering and Flavouring Chocolate, trials 1 & 2
I decided this summer to take an online Domestika course in chocolate flavouring and texturing. During the course I'm supposed to learn...
Oct 1, 2021
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Roast Chestnut Cookies
During the 12 days of Christmas Cookies last year, Day 5 was Chestnut rings (" on the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...
Sep 12, 2021
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Rose Cake, versions 3 and 4
I really liked the first Rose Cake recipe I came up with in versions 1 and 2, but I wanted to try again using fresh petals. To try out...
Sep 9, 2021
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Rose Cake
The blog turned one this week! I've been playing around with the idea of making a rose cake for a while so I decided that now was a good...
Aug 12, 2021
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