So if you follow me on the ‘gram or are a friend of mine on Facebook you might have noticed that I haven’t been posting a lot of cake recently and instead I’ve been documenting my one woman battle to save the planet. I’ve kind of come to a compromise with this recipe entry; I have 12 ideas for reducing your waste and then I have a recipe for a delicious cake with a rather high carbon footprint. Both are worth reading.
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Super Moist Lemon and Lavender Syrup Cake
This cake never goes stale. Is that because it is a drenched syrup cake with an almond base and many many eggs or is it because it is so damn delicious there are never spare slices left behind to go stale? No one will ever know. . .
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Chocolate Hazelnut Baci Cakes
First time around these little cakes were an excellent wee case study on the art of perseverance. To summarise I managed to wreck two batches of ganache, accidentally make hazelnut butter as well as accidentally melting my cream up with melted chocolate that was too hot. Too much chocolate had been invested to give up so I kept on keeping on until I ended up with six actually pretty good looking baci cakes.
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Lemon Chia Polenta Cakes
I went out to dinner with a group of bloggers and ‘instafamous’ people the other night. I felt really old. I’m only 24.
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Orange Almond Syrup Cake
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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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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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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Dark Chocolate Pretzel Cake
This cake would be a good one to make last minute to take to a barbecue this summer. All you need is a couple of hours lead time, four-ish ingredients, almost zero skill and maybe a few scoops of ice cream to serve.
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