Cookbook Challenge: Week 40, Apple

Recipe: “Crunchy top” apple & pear muffins From: Bill Granger’s Holiday You know when you’ve been baking for a while, you start to get the jist of recipes. Most baked goods follow a similar method – for example, with many cakes you cream the butter and sugar first, and then add the dry and wet [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 20, Tangy

Recipe: Rhubarb Yoghurt muffinsCookbook: Vegetarian cooking, a commonsense guide The theme for this week’s Cookbook Challenge is “tangy”, and first up I must make a confession. I cheated this week – I actually made these muffins last week! I was going to make a fresh recipe for the theme this week, but in keeping with [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 15, Muffins

Recipe: Citrus poppy seed muffinsCookbook: Australian Women’s Weekly “Bake” The theme for the Cookbook Challenge last week was “muffins”, so I turned to the trusty AWW Bake as it has a whole chapter on muffins. Despite the entire chapter, nothing really took my fancy. Perhaps there’s still a lingering obsession with cupcakes, and muffins just [...]

Cookbook Challenge: Week 9, Berry

Recipe: Blueberry and coconut muffinsFrom: Australian Women’s Weekly “Kitchen” So guess what the theme is this week for the Cookbook Challenge? Berry. And guess who did berry pancakes LAST week? Yep, genius over here! Obviously I don’t plan my weekly recipes in advance. If I had been clever, I would’ve done the pancakes this week [...]

Chocolate and pear muffins with chocolate syrup

Hooray for long weekends! I spent the bulk of it cooking – it was nice to get back in the kitchen and be enthused and excited again. On Saturday we went to visit my dear friend Emily, her partner Mark and their lovely wee girl Audrey. Em and Mark bought their first house recently and [...]

French onion muffins (and pumpkin soup)

Cold weather always makes me crave soup. I have a couple of soups on rotation during the cold months and one of those is an easy, peasy pumpkin soup. It basically involves softening some diced onion and garlic in a bit of oil. Then I add peeled and diced pumpkin to the pot, add just [...]

Little orange poppyseed cakes

I had a free health check at work today. There was good news and bad news. The bad news is that my height was 3cm less than I thought it was. Some might think that’s not really bad news, but when you’re not very tall, every centimetre counts! The good news is that, along with [...]

Old-fashioned maple bran muffins

I’ve been on the look out for baking recipes that aren’t too sweet to eat at morning tea. The recipe for these maple bran muffins appealed because the recipe doesn’t contain sugar (but it does have 4 tablespoons of maple syrup). The original recipe asked for pecans, and instead I substituted with dried apricots. I [...]

Carrot cake muffins

I like the humble carrot. I wouldn’t say that it’s my favourite vegetable, but it’s certainly one of the most useful. I put it in almost everything – pasta sauces, soups, stews, stir fry, sandwiches, roasts and salads as well as eating it raw by itself or with dips. Carrot juice is probably my favourite [...]

Mini cheesecakes

I made these little cheesecakes for a gathering at a friend’s place. They taste quite light, despite the ingredients, and they’re not too sweet and rich. The fruit on the top helps give a bit of tartness. They were very popular! I don’t think they would have been as impressed if they had known how [...]

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