From Pecan shorties to peanut butter sandwiches
It’s about time I made cake. I will often make a chocolate cake or a banana cake just to have in the house. This one looks like a goody. I will be making and posting the recipe for my favourite never fail chocolate cake soon btw. The nice thing about Read more…
It was my daughter’s ball on Saturday and she decided to make the dress!!! Great, Ahh ahhh. Over two months she had cut out the pattern and made the skirt, only 🙁 Then with 2 weeks to go, she handed over the reigns and “let me do the rest.” Yay, Read more…
I got home from dance practice at 8.30pm and what better time to bake the next recipe waiting for me open on the page. It looked easy, compared to “that cake”, (the Gateau de l’opera ) and besides, we had no home baking (believe it or not!!) in the house Read more…
I’ve just realized I keep baking biscuits…ahhhhhhh. I need to move on, get to the harder bakes, spice it up a bit. This is the last one for a while, I promise. I have been sewing the elastic onto the ends of gloves this afternoon. It’s stressful as my machine Read more…
It’s the end of the school holidays and I haven’t got much in the cupboards for school lunches. I spotted these Drop Scones and given that it’s Sunday and I need a simple bake, I thought these would be great. In fact, they resemble my pikelet recipe (see my recipes). Read more…
Along with the recipe for Pumpkin and Sunflower Biscuits (the 25th Bake) was a recipe for Chutney. It was like caramelized onions which I love. Given that I have always wanted to know how to make these, this recipe was perfect. Simply chop the onions, add the luscious ingredients of Read more…
With the rush on to finish my baker’s dozen recipes this month, I chose these biscuits. They looked delicious and easy. I’m frightened I will use up all the “easy” recipes and get stuck with very complicated sweet pastries and cakes at the end, but never mind, must push on. Read more…
It’s Anzac Day, Wednesday the 25th April and I noticed that these biscuits resembled our own Anzac biscuits so thought I would cook these. My daughter is deputy head girl of her college, so will be giving a speech this morning at the local war memorial commemoration. It’s an important Read more…
I was lying in bed on a Sunday, and I had to be at my Samba workshop in one hour. We are hand making our costumes for the next performance and the idea was to get together to gem the costumes and of course, take a plate and share lunch Read more…
Its been a long weekend, Easter and I kind of lost track of the date, somehow. So Tuesday has arrived and it is the 3rd March and no bakes have been had yet this month. So with Daylight saving finished, I got up at what I thought was 8.30. Quite Read more…