Birthday number 2 in lockdown. Restaurants are still closed, no celebration drinks or meals, it is ‘take outs’ only with a 7pm curfew. Last year I baked and slaved, this year I’m using leftover cake from a shoot…
Panettone is the perfect Christmas gift. I gifted myself two. One panettone, two panettoni. This Italian yeast-leavened sweet bread/cake makes its appearance during the Festive season. Stanislao Porzio, food commentator and panettone expert explains: “Panettone, as we know it…
I love cultural food traditions! In France Epiphany [Jan 6th], is celebrated with a delicious frangipane filled puff pastry cake called La Galette des Rois or the Cake of the King, a 700 year old tradition. Boulangeries and…
It is cherry season in New Zealand, which means Christmas is around the corner. Have you baked your Christmas cake yet? I love a rich fruit cake with marzipan for Christmas. This buttermilk bundt cake recipe is topped…
Happy Birthday to my sweet little girl. Every year I photograph Nina to create a memory of each new birthday. I loved styling and photographing this year’s sweet theme. I baked and frosted for days, buttercream icing is…
We love Easter. On Easter Sunday after morning church, we celebrate by having an egg hunt, some cake and cookies. This year the hunt was in a forest, the perfect backdrop with loads of neat hidding places and…
I thought I would share this recipe because it is so easy and delicious. I don’t have the fancy friand baking tins, I just used a muffin tin. This recipe makes 18 muffin tin size friands [which auto…
We celebrate the Queen’s birthday in New Zealand on the 5th June [rather than the monarch’s actual birth date], it is a national holiday with scones and cream, Victoria Sponge and tea celebrations. Naturally we turn to Mary…
What do you do when you receive a bunch of beautiful roses? You admire them for a few days and then you make little bundt cakes with rose glaze and sugar petals! For the rose petals you would…