About Me

Baking isn’t my day job but it has been a passion ever since I learnt to bake with my mum when I was young.  Of course, eating the finished product is always part of the pleasure!

A few years ago, I began creating my own recipes, mainly to reduce consumption of saturated fat as at that time saturated fat was deemed the enemy!  I began with biscuits as these traditionally contain a lot of butter.  While I had failures initially, I loved experimenting and I loved working at a recipe until I deemed it to be perfect in terms of taste and texture.

I now also experiment with alternative flours, nut flours and reduced sugar, with the aim of providing some nutritional benefit while retaining the pleasure of traditional baking!  I believe I have created some formulas which produce cakes and biscuits that can rival traditional recipes!  I discuss my recipes in more detail here.

Above:  Moist Madeira Cake (gluten-free).

Having said that, from some of the recipes you may glean that I have a sweet tooth and I love chocolate (the high cocoa content variety)!  As a former colleague of mine used to say “You gotta enjoy life”!

Above:  Easter Dessert Slice

Frequently when I take a plate of home-baked goods to an event, I am asked for the recipe.  The reason for this website is to provide an easy way to share my recipes with anyone who is interested.

I also dabble in cake decorating and chocolate making;  future posts may encompass those endeavours!

Thanks for visiting my site.  It will always be a work in progress so please do come back and visit again soon.  You may wish to subscribe to notifications (over on the right) which will email you when a new recipe is posted.