Slices
Earlier this year, I added rolled oats and walnuts to my diet (I had considered them to be a bit too ‘healthy’ prior to that!). I found my energy levels were increased and I didn’t feel I needed to snack mid-morning. Thus, when I pondered making a slice with a healthy slant, the combination of rolled oats and walnuts came …
Decorated Cakes
It’s several years now since I did a night class in cake decorating. For the first year or so afterwards, I took every opportunity to practice by making and decorating a cake for every conceivable occasion! It is a long time now since the last one so I welcomed the opportunity last week to do a birthday cake for my nephew’s …
Cakes
Recently in a magazine , I saw a recipe for a Chocolate Hazelnut cake that had polenta as an ingredient. I have tried using polenta in cakes but have never had much success. The idea of chocolate and hazelnut together sounded quite delicious though! This is my version of a hazelnut and chocolate cake. I mix it entirely in the food …
Muffins
With these muffins, I’m trying to stretch out for as long as I can the Easter theme of chocolate! As I continue to trial the use of alternative flours in my recipes, I am learning that one size doesn’t fit all. I discovered some time back that a combination of part brown rice flour and part white rice flour seemed …
Cakes
I’m generally not a fan of eating the icing on cakes, but I am partial to cream cheese icing on carrot cake! The downside is that the cake then needs to be kept refrigerated because of the cream cheese. I usually take the cake out of the fridge about half an hour prior to serving as I find it more pleasant …
Muffins
Like most muffin recipes, these lemon and poppy seed muffins are best eaten reasonably fresh from the oven. In the following days, they can be freshened by re-heating in a microwave oven for 12 seconds or a conventional oven for about 12-15 minutes. For the one cup of milk, I use either Rice Milk or Oat Milk; one cup of …
Biscuits
Macarons – those delicious meringue-based biscuits with a ganache filling – seem to have gained in popularity over recent years. (At least in New Zealand anyway!) Many bakeries and cafes now include them in their repertoire. Even McDonald’s McCafe have been known to sell them! As a lover of all things meringue, and having tasted the sumptuous macarons at Bordeaux Bakery …
