April 16, 2014
I love, love, LOVE Hot Cross Buns. Especially the gorgeous gourmet ones you can buy from really good bakeries and cafés. However, as much as I love them, I hate paying $4 (plus!) for one bun. So in order to satisfy my eternal gourmet tastes, I’ve (selflessly) spent days developing the perfect Hot Cross Bun recipe.
I reckon the key to great Hot Cross Buns is plenty of spices, a generous helping of fruit and plenty of eggs, butter and milk in the dough itself to enrich it and give it depth of fla...
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April 6, 2014
Love Hot Cross Buns but the thought of dough and yeast and kneading exhausts you? Well I can’t blame you for that but I’d hate you to miss out on a kitchen that smells like heaven so I’ve come up with a great alternative.
These are quick to make (30 minutes vs 4 hours for the actual proper things) and taste just the same thanks to a generous helping of spices and fruit. So next time you have Hot Cross Bun cravings that need to be sated now (not in four hours), rather than whipping out to the s...
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April 6, 2014
These gorgeous jewel-like eggs are super simple to create and make an incredibly effective display.
I’ve hung them from a bunch of fairy-light branches in our entrance way but they would look just as beautiful piled up in a bowl on a table or filling a glass vase on a sideboard or mantle.
I got all of my supplies from my local dollar shop (Uncle Bill’s in Masteron in this case) and I reckon the entire project cost me no more than $20 – which is pretty good considering the result!
This wee pro...
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April 6, 2014
I was delighted to be asked by the lovely folks at Woman’s Day to create an Easter Egg Hunt Craft and Baking special for them.
We (i.e. my incredibly talented photographer Erina Wood and I) had such fun with the results that I just had to share the photos that Woman’s Day couldn’t fit in – we had so many it would have filled up half the magazine without any trouble!
What they did include (in the issue out today) are the recipes for my Crème Egg Brownies, the Birds Nest Cupcakes; and the “how ...
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March 18, 2014
Hello hello! Sorry for the silence but my husband just returned home from seven months overseas (chasing pirates for the NZ Navy) and we’ve been busy catching up and spending quality family time together (I also had a heap of house cleaning to do before he got home which also took up a fair bit of baking time… shhh!).
Anyways, I think you’ll find that this sweet concoction of brownie, meringue and coffee is well worth the wait.
Gooey, dense rich brownie topped with piles of cloud-like coffee fl...
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