From the category archives:

baking

orange malva pudding

September 1, 2010

This pudding should actually be called ‘death by malva pudding’, or butter because that is exactly what it is.
I discovered it when it was served at a friends supper last year and I immidiately recognised it as the best version I had ever tasted.
A very looog story about tracking the recipe down over a period of about 6 [...]

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chocolate nemesis: the river cafe

August 15, 2010

I think chocolate nemesis is the best possible name they could have given to this cake.  I’m not really sure what it is. Its part cake, part mousse but without a doubt, its 100% decadent, dark, delicious and totally irresistible.
I was pleased that I made it for a friends birthday and gave it away immediately, thus having the temptation [...]

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strawberry, white chocolate and macadamia nut cookies

August 9, 2010

I have been on a bit of a cookie making mission lately and decided to revisit a previous winning recipe of white choc, cranberry and pecan nut cookies, but this time I used dried strawberries instead of cranberries, and macadamia nuts instead of pecans.
I had bought the dried strawberries in Stellenbosch on a strawberry farm, but saw them the other day at Komati [...]

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perfect peanut butter cookies

July 7, 2010

I inherited the book ‘The Joy of Cooking’ by Irma Rombauer from my mother who in turn had inherited from her mother.  The book was first published in the USA in 1931 and  my copy is the 1952 edition.
I have never made anything from it, but have read bits and pieces and use it more as a reference. I am however [...]

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choc chip cookies: the best recipe on the internet by the new york times

July 4, 2010

When I stumble across a recipe that claims to be the best chocolate cookie recipe ever, or on the internet, I am intrigued.  I read further.  I travel from one blog link to the next to see who else has baked this recipe.  I discover that even Clotilde has baked it and approves of it. 
The [...]

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raisin scones: so very easy

June 27, 2010

So there I was jotting down a recipe from TV again. This has become a bit of a habit of mine recently with PVR making it all possible. I was watching a guest chef, I can’t remember his name, on James Martin’s ‘Sweet’.  He is a pastry chef and with very little effort threw these scones together.
I was sold.
The two things that struck me as interesting [...]

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smoked chilli cheese biscuits

June 8, 2010

When it comes to baking and all the science behind it, I tend to not mess too much with the recipe structure and will just play around with the particulates that you add and keep the flour (gluten), raising agent to liquid ratios quite fixed. Ive been baking since I was 6, so have built up [...]

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bran and muesli buttermilk rusks with seeds

May 31, 2010

I have been stuck on one favourite rusk recipe forever (which I will do a post about because they are amazing and I have to share), but last week  I came across this recipe in ‘Home Bakes’ which seems to be my book ‘de jour’.  I had all the ingredients so thought it was high time to [...]

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biscotti with smoked chilli and tomato

May 26, 2010

I spotted this savoury biscotti recipe in a much coveted baking book of mine: ‘Home Bakes’ by Carolie de Koster, endorsed by Golden Cloud and published by Lannice Snyman Inc.  So its just gotta be good. Which it is.  There is something I trust implicitly about a book that is sponsored by a large flour milling [...]

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apple and cherry oat crumble

May 20, 2010

I wanted to make a heartwarming and comforting pudding for the motherless mothers day lunch.  I felt like having the red juicy cherries bubbling through the crumb (I just love it when it they do that), but I also wanted my all time favourite dessert: apple crumble.
What a winning combination and yet so simple.
I’m a huge fan of [...]

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