So I made this cake originally for Shine's Orange Friday appeal where we raffled it off and made $167.50 to help support the victims of domestic abuse in New Zealand. See, sharing is caring! I found myself making it again for when the boyfriend's parents came over to meet my parents for the first time. Its a good one for sure when you don't feel like making a complicated cake or faffing around with icing one.
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Fudgy Baked Chocolate Doughnuts
This post is about glorious little nuggets of baked joy.
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Nectarine Raspberry Summer Cake
Birthday cakes are my favourite to make, especially if unexpected. Funnily enough I am inclined to go to more effort if they are a surprise. This one here was a surprise (or at least it was supposed to be).
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Cherry Blossom Cake (Cherry Coconut Cake)
This would make a great Valentines/Galentines day cake if that sorta thing floats your boat. I personally am more a fan of telling Bae he is great everyday than restricting it to just one day a year. But hey if someone delivered me a cute floral cake this Sunday I wouldn't complain.
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Dulce De Leche Ice Cream
Last September I thought it would be a great idea to run around South America for a bit. It was.
The other day Mum mentioned that it had looked like I was back to my pre-trip weight. Double edged compliment right there. To be fair though I am not surprised I packed it on in the three weeks I was away. My diet consisted of white bread, meat, dulce de leche and cachaca. Oh and ice cream! All the dulce de leche ice cream I could find. It was glorious, man it seemed in each town or city the ice cream was better than the last.
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Dylan's Risotto (the best risotto of my life)
A young man made me food. Not just any food either, my favourite food. I was made the most delicious risotto of my life. To top it all off the man making it has the most excellent face I've ever seen as well. So much win in one go.
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Banana, Peanut Butter and Salted Caramel Ice Cream
I went through one of the freezers yesterday and threw out two supermarket bags of freezer burnt food and swept out a lot of rogue peas in order to make room for this tub. I've made three tubs in a week. That is a litre and a half of cream in a week and 15 eggs just on ice cream alone!
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Honey, Mascarpone and Gingernut Ice Cream
Even though my flat has three freezers in it I am still rapidly running out of freezer space. The novelty of my ice cream churner has not yet worn off. This week I tried my hand at making the gingernut ice cream I had always promised to make my friend Sophie (who loves gingernuts).
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Lemon Curd and Raspberry Ice Cream
Sometimes when I feel average about myself I go and make a tub of ice cream and then I remember how great I am. This ice cream is the tits. Soz Dad I just said tits on the internet.
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Summer Lemonade
I love how the word glut is used to describe the crop from an overladen fruit tree. We raided Auntie Rachel's lemon tree and so once again we have a similar scenario one to one of my favourite books as a kid, Jam by Margaret Mahy. Mr Castle's plum tree is so full of plums that he fills every vessel in the house (from vases to tea cups) with plum jam. This is what is is like when we get an influx of lemons. Lemon curd on toast, lemon cake and now that summer is here we lemonade syrup has been added to the mix
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