I write this post about Japanese inspired cakes with an Indian cookbook open on one side and some Mexican inspired soup on the other from my sofa in Christchurch where my favourite eatery is the Afghan restaurant.
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Coconut Brioche French Toast
Because everyone has loaves of stale brioche lying around dying to be turned into French toast...
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Coconut Shortbread
A couple of months ago I started experimenting with different flavours of shortbread. It started yonks ago with rosemary then the lavender then the lemon and now coconut. To date, coconut has been the crowd favourite.
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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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Lemon Coconut Layer Cake
I had 8 eggs that were about to go off. Sophie logic therefore made it totally reasonable to use these eggs along with five cups of coconut, half a kilo of butter plus all the rest to make a massive three layer naked cake.
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Raspberry and Coconut Cake
I made this raspberry and coconut cake from a recipe my Mum gave me. She I believe got it from her friend Sue. Exact origins beyond that are unknown but regardless it is delicious.
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Boysenberry Ripple Chia Ice Pops
One of the perks of working for a company that makes ice cream is that from time to time you get treated. I usually go for the delicious Kapiti ice creams sticks and for just a few minutes zone out into my own little bubble of joy as my mouth wraps around the sweet sweet goodness. This is the second time in the month of June I have had to forgo this delicious novelty in the name of Junk Free June.
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Golden Peach and Coconut Cake
Basically I think what I am trying to communicate here in this post is that your early twenties are hard. But not actually hard, but hard in a self-centred first world problems type of hard. So actually really easy and that we should actually shut the hell up for being so wingy because soon God forbid we might have children...
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Raspberry Coconut Ice
Woman in the kitchen.
Apparently that is where we are supposed to be. In all honesty the kitchen is my favourite place to be but why is there such a social emphasis on the woman of the household being responsible for the nutrition of her family or friends?
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