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Peach cobbler

2 January 2012 Cakes
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A recent conversation with Anna over at The Littlest Anchovy led to what we were going to cook on the weekend. I think for both of us it’s the only real time we have to cook for our blogs and while I was unsure what I was doing, Anna already had hers planned. She asked [...]

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The Art of French Baking

21 December 2011 Cakes
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My first step through the front door was met with an instant feeling of warmth and desire. The aroma of freshly baked pastry hung in the air, dripping with sweetness from slightly caramelised apricots and sugar. No, I wasn’t stepping into a pâtisserie on a Parisian back-street, I was stepping into my own front door [...]

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David Skoko’s chocolate chilli nibbles

23 November 2011 Cakes
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In researching recipes for my Croatian category I stumbled upon a great travel blog written and photographed by Zürich-based Kerrin Rousset. The Croatian category on her site MyKugelhopf drew me in and reminded me how much I loved travelling around Croatia on my only visit almost ten years ago. Kerrins travels through Istria, the northern region, took [...]

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Aliter dulcia {another sweet}

28 July 2011 Cakes
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I’ve always been interested foods from the past and have had a couple of books on the subject since my late teenage years, yet never really made much from them. I’m fascinated by what folk ate back in the Middle Ages and their heavy use of spices and ingredients considered valuable and precious, much of which [...]

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Ginger + sour cream cake

13 April 2011 Cakes
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We all love a bit of cake now and again, right? I stumbled upon this recipe whilst flicking through at a book shop so out comes the iPhone and, snap, the recipe is mine. I’ve tweaked the levels of ginger to my personal taste, adding fresh and crystalised ginger to the already fairly low measure of [...]

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Oblatne – Croatian wafer cake

27 January 2011 Cakes
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One of the most common cakes to be floating around the house when I was growing up is the light and moreish oblatne, a wafer cake layered with a luscious chocolate paste. I don’t think my mother ever put ground nuts through it so I’ve broken family tradition by doing so. It really works. This [...]

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Poteca – nut roll

2 January 2011 Cakes
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It may be a little hazy, but one of my fondest memories was tip-toeing around the front room at my brothers god-parents house in Pymble. I reckon I was about 7 or 8 at the time and remember a room full of traditional Croatian pastries on covered plates and in plastic containers. It was the sweetest smelling [...]

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Torta de laranja – Portuguese orange roll

26 December 2010 Cakes
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This is one of those recipes that has been wafting around my “to do” recipe folder for many years. It has less than a handful of ingredients, is very easy to make and is deliciously refreshing. Come to think of it, I had a version of this at Sweet Belem earlier this year. Essentially it’s a [...]

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