This was actually supposed to be Almond Cake with Rosewater Syrup, but you need 2 cups of almond meal and I had 1/2 cup of almond meal and 1 1/2 cups of hazelnut meal in my freezer, so Almond and Hazelnut Cake with Rosewater Syrup it was. The cake is dense, moist and flavoursome. The [...]
Posts Tagged ‘dessert’
Recipe: Almond and Hazelnut Cake with Rosewater Syrup
Posted in Recipes, tagged cake, dessert on April 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Hard Sauce
Posted in Recipes, tagged dessert, seasonal on December 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
I was delegated the task of making Hard Sauce again this year. Rather than repeating last year’s effort (especially since I still had some of last year’s in my freezer as I overcatered), I decided to search anew for a recipe that more closely resembled Nana’s Hard Sauce, delight of family christmas parties in aeons [...]
Recipe: Ginger cake
Posted in Recipes, tagged cake, dessert on May 27, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This cake mix came about by accident when I realised I had run out of golden syrup and only had one teaspoon of powdered ginger, but still wanted to make a ginger cake for a baby shower the next day. It’s very lovely and strongly gingery – thanks to the diced ginger and treacle which [...]
Recipe: Piss-easy chocolate mousse
Posted in Recipes, tagged dessert on February 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
This mousse is seriously easy – so easy that once you have made it once you will wonder why you have never had all the ingredients together in your house before. This mousse is also seriously delicious – so delicious you will have to resist the urge to have the ingredients on constant standby so [...]
Recipe: An Alternative Take on the Melba
Posted in Recipes, tagged dessert on February 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
So it’s been 18 days since I finished holidays. 13 working days. Not that I am counting. Luckily the back-to-work adjustment period has been punctuated by an annual public holiday whose purpose is to allow us to celebrate/commiserate a colonialist imperial invasion of an inhabited land by: taking the day off work, ensuring everyone gets [...]
