honey roasted strawberry oat muffins

I don't often get the chance to see the search terms people use to make it onto my blog, but when I do get a sneak peek, I usually find some interesting queries. Today's recipe is honey roasted strawberry muffins, and these were inspired by a search which made me giggle. The Google search term? …

easy pikelets

I've started my week on a whim making these fluffy pikelets for lunch! Usually a salad or croissan'wich is in order - but with my babbling bubba on the bench beside me, I felt like I wanted something quick and easy and totally mashable by her teeny tiny little hands and toothless gums (well those …

no-cream, no-egg baked cheesecake

Lately, I've noticed my shopping habits have changed. Since a young child, I maintained the idea of "more value for money" means you're a better shopper. I remember seeing this in my mum, too. And I remember when she also started changing her ideas on this. When everyone was living at home, our family was …

orange poppyseed cake & caramel sauce

I first tried this cake when my sister made it for the family a few years back. We'd only ever really baked vanilla cakes with a brush of orange rind and a sprinkle of coconut for added flavour. This was a fresh take on the usual and we instantly fell in love with it. Fast …

coconut lemon cheesecake

Who could ever forget that pesky tune? ...Is life in plastic truly fantastic? Sometimes I stop and ponder why when we cook and bake we demand perfection. How often do you do that? I baked a cheesecake last week. Not any cheesecake… a superbly cracked all the way down cheesecake! It wasn’t a case of ‘bad beginner’s …

☆ my 2013 resolution | recipe roundup from my blogroll ☆

Since it's year's end and blog posts are trending around the topic, I thought I'd join the party and post: a warm welcome to all my new subscribers - I hope to dish up delicacies that'll tickle your taste buds this coming year; a tribute to my blogging friends... a roundup of some of the …

great food blogger cookie swap | gluten free triple choc cookies

Hi everyone! I'm back Down Under and ready for business. Only I'm a couple of days late as this post was meant to go up 11.12.13 and be posted into the "Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap" roundup! Did I mention I signed up for that? Read all about the great cause here. Making cookies is …

croissant au beurre || a spiel & recipe

Somewhere between last Saturday and now, I managed to realise I am the most pathetic human being alive. When I say this, I am referring to empathy, i.e. I am empathetic - but empathy has so much sociocultural connotative baggage involved with it, I like to use the concept pathos from Aristotle and mirror it so …

swiss chocolate & pistachio brownies

Have you ever had someone or something enter your life briefly, consume so much of your thought, energy, and passion, only to then let life carry on fulfilling its mission, taking them as far away as close as it had brought them to you? Yet you continue thinking about them - allowing your mind to …

interfational love day – a heart shaped vanilla cake to celebrate

When I made this cake recently, I declared it ♥ interfational love day ♥ because of just how adorable it is. If you're the sort of person to save sweet treats like this to something like Valentines Day, then it's time to break the mould and do things differently! So before I share the recipe with you, …