Buttermilk cookies
This post is full of declarations and an accusation. Declaration number 1 (made by my friend Tenille from my fruit mince pies adventures): ‘These buttermilk cookies are the best cookies you’ve ever...
View ArticlePart 1 – Red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting
This is a three part post with three various types of cupcakes. Meet today’s star – Miss Red Velvet with Cream Cheese Frosting. Why so many cupcakes? And believe me there were A LOT of cupcakes (hence...
View ArticlePart 2 – Butter cupcakes with red cream cheese frosting
Here is part two of the Clever Muffin cupcake adventures. Butter cupcakes (otherwise known as vanilla) with red cream cheese frosting! I made these in normal cupcake size as in the pic above with all...
View ArticleLow fat blueberry, apple and oat muffins
Here’s another recipe for a healthy blueberry and apple type muffin. Hey! Come back. I know I’ve posted a few of these before but these are STAPLE foods. This is the ‘other’ kind of baking. The making...
View ArticleJam thumbprint cookies
These seem to be the cookies of people’s childhoods. Whether out of the packet or made my mum, people remember these. They also seem to go by a few names, like Jam drops or Jam cookies. That’s OK. Call...
View ArticleMocha double chocolate cookies
I need to talk to you about putting coffee in double chocolate, chocolate-chip cookies. And, well, this is important. Did you know that adding coffee to chocolate baked goods actually intensifies the...
View ArticlePart 3 – Chocolate mud cupcakes with chocolate buttercream frosting
This is the last of the three part cupcake series. And I have saved the best for last – amazingly dense and rich chocolate mud cake, and the best chocolate buttercream frosting I’ve ever used for...
View ArticleChristmas thumbprint cookies
Christmas huh. How did that happen? If you, like me, have found it’s suddenly the latter half of December and you haven’t done a thing…read on friend. I’m here to help. Over the next week I’m throwing...
View ArticleApple, custard and white choc muffins
Let me tell you a story about men, and the mystery of custard powder. While serving these Apple and White Choc muffins up to a couple of visitors at my house, a man asked “how do you get the custard...
View ArticleCherry, chocolate, cornflake and coconut cookies (the everything cookie)
These are unmistakably homemade cookies. They’ve got that chunkiness to them, and randomness of ingredients like cornflakes and cherries, that no mass producing cookie company would ever market. The...
View ArticleChewy peanut butter brownies
These brownies are, very literally, my personal brownie points. Because, as I’ve previously mentioned when making peanut butter choc chip cookies, I don’t like peanut butter. So when I make something...
View ArticleHedgehog slice (brownie style)
You know what a hedgehog slice looks like? A dense brownie. You know what most hedgehog slices taste like? Crumbly biscuit. FAIL. But not this recipe. Welcome to the awesome world of adding sweetened...
View ArticleChristmas cookie round up (super honest style)
Ah, so it’s (let me count…) five days before Christmas and you’re now thinking “you know what, I SHOULD make some Christmas cookies for a gift / that party / to put in my face.” You’re right. You...
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