Category: Dessert
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Winter Comfort Food
This dessert is pure comfort food. There is nothing healthy about it! I found the original recipe for caramel apple self-saucing pudding on Food to Love, and planned to make it that way, but using pear. Of course, it can still be made with apple, as long as the salicylates are OK. Read more
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Oscar’s Heart Love Cake
The commercialism of Valentine’s Day reached Oscar this year. Hubby and I usually ignore it, but Oscar insisted that we needed to have something special for dinner, so we made a “heart love” cake. I had shared some instruction on Facebook for a heart cake made from a square cake and a circle cake, but… Read more
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Three Easy Desserts/Snacks for Kids to Help Make
Lately, Oscar has been showing an interest in helping in the kitchen to prepare the evening meal. It’s a great way for him to learn about food and we talk about the different ingredients we use. He’s learning how to chop vegetables, squeeze lemons, whisk eggs and stir things on the stove. These are three… Read more
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Fluffy Spelt Pancakes
It’s Oscar’s birthday today, so for his special day he will be having pancakes for breakfast. We make our pancakes with spelt flour now and they are much nicer than with regular flour. This recipe is based on my Fluffy Breakfast Pancakes recipe, with a few additional variations. You don’t need to have these for… Read more
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Making Coconut Milk
Every time we crack open a coconut Oscar tells me he wants to drink the coconut “juice”, because he loves the juice! But when I give him the coconut water he won’t drink it because it tastes yuck! Last time I decide to try making coconut milk and found a simple food processor recipe to follow on… Read more
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Still Enjoying my Ice Cream Maker
Before it gets too cold to enjoy ice cream I thought I had better post these two recipes that we tried over summer – fig and apple pie (not together). The fig ice cream came about because of the abundance of figs on the tree that hangs over the neighbours fence. Last year I made… Read more
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It’s the Easter Long Weekend: Keeping it Casual with Hamburgers and Buttermilk Pancakes
The Easter long weekend starts today, and while this post is going out we will be eating pancakes for breakfast (actually I hope we get to sleep in a bit longer!). Pancakes are our favourite holiday/weekend breakfast. They are easy and can be adapted to almost any dietary restrictions. This recipe comes from the Martha… Read more
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Irish Apple (or Pear) Barley Pudding Two Ways
The second of my St Patrick’s Day recipes is Apple Barley Pudding, based on a recipe from European Cuisines. I made this twice using pears instead of apples, and a apple version with Red and Golden Delicious apples. The original recipe used tart apples, but the pears and Delicious apples were a lot sweeter, so I was… Read more
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Playing with My New Ice Cream Maker: Paw Paw Sorbet and Sweet Potato Ice Cream
For Christmas this year I asked hubby to get me an Ice Cream Maker. Which he did, and we have been having fun making ice cream and sorbet over summer. The first thing I tried (the day after boxing day) was Sweet Potato Ice Cream. We tried this in Japan and loved it; and wanted… Read more
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Best Ever Carob Cake (or Chocolate Cake without Chocolate)
Last weekend was my Dad’s 65th birthday, so the whole family was at Mum and Dad’s to celebrate. My nephew has recently started on the elimination diet, so my Mum wanted to make a cake that he could have and was thinking of a carob cake. I’ve been making chocolate cakes for my Dad’s birthday… Read more
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Ice Cream Bombe
With Australia Day coming up and many Australia Day Barbecues happening round the country I thought it would be timely to post this Ice Cream Bombe recipe, as it makes a great dessert on a hot day (and there’s a good chance it will be hot). My inspiration for this recipe was Domestic Diva’s Ice Cream Bombe,… Read more
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Final Post Before Christmas: Finnish Christmas Stars
This is my last post before Christmas and my last recipe until at least mid-January. I’m going to finish of the year with some Finnish Christmas Stars (I didn’t realise that pun until just now 🙂 ) that I made to take to our street party. Finnish Christmas Stars (Joulutorttu) are very to easy to… Read more
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Christmas Golden Syrup Cakes and Cashew Maple Syrup Custard
A few weeks ago I came across a recipe from Quirky Jo for Cashew Honey Vanilla Bean Custard. It looked and sounded delicious, so I thought I’d try a maple syrup version, sans Thermomix. But then I would need something to serve it with, so I decide to also make some of the Golden… Read more
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Butterscotch Muffins with Caramel Sauce
Oops, forgot to take a photo of the sauce for this one, but I’m sure you’ll get idea. I’ll just have to make it again so I can update the recipe. This is a quite decent alternative to stick date pudding – moist buttermilk muffins with caramel sauce. The muffins also taste quite alright without… Read more
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Layered Apple/Pear Buttermilk Cake
This is not a new recipe, it is just a variation in presentation on my Mum’s Apple Layered Cake, made with buttermilk instead of sour cream. It also works well with pears instead of apples, and can be eaten as a dessert cake or just for cake’s sake. Coming Up Next Time: Butterscotch Muffins Read more
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Apple and Banana Pie
Oscar was watching Play School last weekend during which they made an apple and blueberry pie. Oscar asked if I knew how to make pies, and if I could make one for dinner that night. He knew he couldn’t have blueberries so asked for white chocolate instead (not sure about those flavours!), but Dad suggested… Read more
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Sweet and Savoury Calzones (or “inside out pizzas)
These Calzones came about as a result of wanting to try Frilly’s pumpkin pizza dough recipe at Real Meals. I made the pizza dough and told Oscar that we were having pizzas and he could help make the dough. Big mistake! Apparently pizzas in our house can only be made with lebanese pita breads. So the… Read more
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Caramelised Apple, Pear and Quinoa Crumble
The idea for this recipe came from a recipe for Ginger Apple Crisp with Quinoa Flake Crust. I swapped the spices in the filling for caramelising and used apples and pears. Very easy and yummy. This could just as easily be made with pears only. Coming Up Next Time: “Lemon” Chicken Read more
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Coffee Cake / Cupcakes and Maple Butter Cream Icing
I’ve been looking around for some ideas for cakes with a different flavour – vanilla, pear, chocolate and carob have been staples in our house for sometime now. When I found this coffee cupcake recipe came from BBC Good Food I had a “d’oh” moment – why didn’t I think of that? The recipe was OK as… Read more
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Baked Apples with Quinoa
Baked apples are something I haven’t had for a very long time. Of course sultanas are out, so what do I stuff them with? Rather than try and come up with a fruit alternative I decide to try something with a different texture – crunchy and sweet. Quinoa puffs, cashews and a sweet mixture of… Read more