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Chocolate Mirror Cake

Chocolate Mirror Cake

This chocolate mirror cake makes a great impression for any occasion and is amazingly chocolaty.

Chocolate Chia Pudding

Chocolate Chia Pudding

This delicious healthy chocolate chia pudding, topped with a hazelnut fudge sauce hits that sweet, chocolatey spot I crave and is low in carbs.

Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies

Classic Chocolate Chip Cookies

This is my go-to recipe for chocolate chip cookies and I think it will quickly become one of your favourites. After years of baking cookie recipes, I tweaked my recipe until finally, they’re everything you could want out of a cookie.

Apple Buttermilk Cake

Apple Buttermilk Cake

This apple buttermilk cake recipe has a moist, fine crumb vanilla cake base filled with scrumptious apples and it’s easy to make.

Lining A Springform Pan

Lining A Springform Pan

Lining a springform pan can be a tedious task, carefully tracing and cutting out your parchment or baking paper to fit the bottom of your pan. Now there is an easier and more practical way. Simply lay a piece of parchment over the separated bottom read more….

Pastel de Nata (Custard Tarts)

Pastel de Nata (Custard Tarts)

I am a big fan of all things custard and these Portuguese Pastel de Nata specialities from Lisbon are just perfect and fairly simple to recreate too.

Whole-Wheat Pita Bread

Whole-Wheat Pita Bread

These whole-wheat pita bread are easy to prepare and require few ingredients. Delicious soft and great to pair with homemade hummus, salads or foods cooked on the barbeque.

Using fresh or dried yeast

Using fresh or dried yeast

There are three types of yeast available, fresh yeast, active dried yeast and instant yeast. Both dried yeast and fresh yeast are the same yeast strain (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), a single-celled microorganism that is part of the fungi family. When we make a dough using yeast, we start to see active bubbles read more….

Oven Temperatures

Oven Temperatures

Ovens and their temperatures vary between countries. I have created this simple chart showing oven temperature conversions from Celsius to Fahrenheit and gas marks. When you come across a recipe that you would love to make and the oven temperature listed is not what you are used read more….

Traditional Hot Cross Buns

Traditional Hot Cross Buns

These traditional hot cross buns are easy to make and delicious warm served with lashings of butter!