Coconut Ice
I can safely say that it was this recipe that began my adventures in the kitchen. When I was little, my twin sister Lisa & I would take it in turns to spend the weekend at our English grandmother’s house. Every weekend that I stayed …
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Almond Bread
This is a recipe taken from The Australian Women’s Weekly cookbooks, and I do believe it’s the recipe my mother would use every Christmas. I have added pistachio nuts to it too. Almond Bread 3 egg whites 120g caster sugar 135g all-purpose flour, sifted 150g …
Old Fashioned Rum Balls
This is one of the easiest recipes I will probably ever write here, and it’s been a party crowd pleaser for many years – in Australia anyway. The original recipe provides a milk chocolate and coconut flavour, and excluding the Rum, these are great for …
Decorated Christmas Cookies
Christmas isn’t just fun for all the traditional baking, it’s also fun for decorating cookies and especially so if you want to involve your children. If you do get your children to help, prepare yourself for a bit of mess and you can’t be obsessed …
Caramel Mudcake Cupcakes decorated for Christmas
With Christmas just around the corner, it’s time to start baking! Whether you’d like to make these as an original gift idea, (I often made cupcakes at Christmas time for my children’s teachers) or you want some festive looking place cards to enhance your Christmas …
Decorated Christmas Cake
Sometimes I think I won’t make a traditional Christmas Cake, but then I usually get a big attack of the guilts and decide Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without it. Even though I know my son Joseph probably won’t even taste it, I have this need to …
Hummingbird Cupcakes with Dried Pineapple Flowers
Hummingbird Cake is a cake made famous in America when the recipe was published in the 1978 issue of Southern Living and the recipe went on to become that magazine’s most requested. The recipe was submitted by Mrs. L.H. Wiggins, although historians believe the recipe …
Chocolate Self Saucing Pudding
I have an old recipe book, one that you write your recipes in. It is about 25 years old, and I bought it with the intention of collecting recipes over the years. I am grateful that my mother’s handwriting is there, the first recipes written …
Mango, Coconut & Lychee Jellies with Agar Agar
I made these jellies throughout summer and they have become my go-to favourite when I want something sweet, yet fresh, refershing and relatively healthy. The ‘healthy’ part depends on what you add to your jelly. The key to making this is using Agar Agar, and …
Bourbon Pumpkin Pie with Pecan Streusel
When I think of Autumn baking, I think of American classics that are celebrated during ‘Fall’, but especially during Thanksgiving festivities. Although it is true that we don’t have Thanksgiving here in Italy, or in Australia where I grw up, I don’t feel we should …