Category: Baking

Our Homemade Toasted Muesli

Mix it up baby! Nuts, seeds, oats and dried fruit any which way you fancy.

Buttermilk Date Scones

Scented with orange, with a nutty crunch of walnuts and sweet rich taste of dates, these scones served warm with a pot of tea are just the ticket for Mother’s Day.

Chocolate Chunk Biscuits

Share them around.
This recipe make heaps of biscuits so you’ll have plenty to give to friends or neighbours for Easter.

Chelsea Buns

Sweetness and spice, baking and butter, Chelsea Buns have everything going for them.

Fig tarts – simple & sublime

Quick fig tarts – make one, or make a dozen!

Refrigerator Cookies – bake them fresh!

Refrigerator Cookies – sweets for my sweet!

If you know someone who is feeling a bit down in the dumps, bake them a batch of cookies, wrap them in cellophane and tie with a pretty ribbon and call around to have a cuppa with them. It’ll lift their spirits no end. Refrigerator Cookies Share

Plum & Blueberry Tart

Plum & blueberry tart signals the end of summer. Wrap them up in cinnamon pastry and bake until the juices run and the pastry is golden.

Blueberries

Add a squirt of lemon to blueberries – it brings them alive!

Sticky Lemon Slice – Addictive!

Sticky, sweet, lemony-tart, and simply too hard to resist.

Sticky Lemon Slice – A winner!

Best tray-bake ever. Here’s how to do it …

Almond Cake – load it up with summer stone fruit to make it sing!

Now is the time to make cake!

How to make a fabulous butter sponge cake – all the tips!

Cake time! It’s easy when you know how.

Plum Tart

Oh plums, I’ve been waiting for you!

Pavlova Perfection – all the tricks revealed!

This is everything a pav should be: crisp shell, marshmallowy centre, mountains of whipped velvety cream and loads of gorgeous berries. Second slice? Why not!

Vegan Dessert Competition on Waiheke

Best-ever vegan pastry – crisp, melt-in the-mouth and flaky.

Crêpe Cake with Apple Marmelade, Honey Cream & Crushed Praline

This is one of those OHMYGOD! cakes – simply sensational!!!

Maple Syrup

Want to use less sugar in baking? Substitute maple syrup for sugar … just make sure you use the real thing.

Rhubarb, Apple & Ginger Crumble

Yep, someone ate it all up!

Rhubarb

Rhubarb forms a pretty pink syrup when cooked with redcurrant jelly and orange. It also likes peaches, plums, raspberries & strawberries, but it’s winter here, so apple & ginger it is.

Cheese Straws

Good with wine, good with beer, easy to eat, and delicious. What more do you want from a cheese straw?

Sicilian Ricotta Crostata

O-ho, this is rich – chocolate, Marsala-soaked fruits and pastry – but sooooo delicious!

Pizza Bianca with Crispy Pancetta

Ho Ho Ho! Potatoes on pizza. Yeah!

Pizza Dough

Making your own pizza dough costs next to nothing, but you do need time.