When I make a batch of macarons, assuming they all turn out, it should make for 60 macarons. So I divided the mixture into a third and added coffee to get these latte coloured shells that would soon become my Rudolph macarons.

This flourless orange cake really is suburb and I would be proud to serve this to anyone! What I also love about this cake is that being flourless, it refrigerates so well and doesn’t lose any of its moisture. Two thumbs up!

When I set out to make the mini devil’s chocolate cake, I had another agenda in mind – ruffles, and lots of it! Since making little girl’s pink ombre rose swirl birthday cake last year, I have wanted to make a ruffle layered cake.

  A couple of months ago, I went on a baking cookbook buying spree.  I had every intention of going through each of the recipes as well as sitting down and reading the mother of all pastry books – “The French Culinary Institute’s The Fundamental Techniques of Classic Pastry Arts” (the content is as long as its name).  These books…

Ever since last week’s carrot cake and C’s enthusiasm for selling my baked treats at the cafe, I wanted to bake something especially for this purpose.  The brief was that it must be a slice of some sort and it mustn’t be perceived as something dangerously unhealthy as our customer base simply wouldn’t buy into it.  I think I…

I got to baking the Victorian sponge cake and I am pleased to say that by 9am, I had all three layers baked and cooling on a rack. Little girl loves blueberries and she loves cream so there was no denying these two essential ingredients. Given this cake was for little girl, I didn’t want to over load it with sugar so instead of applying jam in between the layers of the Victorian sponge, I opted for a blueberry compote instead.

It was my birthday a week ago today!  I know its a little unusual for the birthday girl to make her own birthday cake but I couldn’t resist! I’ve had this image in my head for some time now and I was waiting for an occasion to be able to recreate it.  So when C said he wanted to…

I love baking on a cold winter’s day! There’s nothing more homely than sitting by the heater indulging in a warm comforting dessert while outside is wet, windy and miserable! It’s been such a huge lapse between bakes and without going into the detail of why, let’s just say this this bake was much needed for the soul…