Super chocolate brownies
I know… so you might be thinking – you don’t need ANOTHER brownie recipe. Right?
Wrong. Although after this recipe, you won’t need any others.
baking – biscuits / cookies
Chocolate date biscuits *
Everyone, stop everything.
Whatever you’re doing – stop.
Because I may have baked the most delicious chocolate biscuits in the world.
And you need to stop everything so you too can experience the wonder and delight of these biscuits.
Okay, I am prone to exaggeration – they may not the the most delicious ever in the entire universe, but they are pretty damn amazing.
Browned butter and cashew blondies
How good is browned butter?
You take something already awesome – butter – and make it 1000 times better and fragrant and nutty. Just by cooking it until it goes brown. Magic.
Beetroot brownies
I had bought beetroot with the intention of shredding them and eating them raw in a salad. And then… they sat in the pantry for a while. After a certain amount of time had passed (and I’m too ashamed to tell you exactly how long) the thought of eating them raw was, well, not good.
What to do, what to do.
And then I had a brilliant thought – brownies! Because that’s a logical next step isn’t it? Salad ——> brownies.
Alfajores
After making these alfajores on two different occasions, I declare them a winter baking project.
Both occasions were during extremely hot nights and it was an exercise in frustration. The dough for these biscuits is super soft, and there was heavy resistance to being rolled out or shaped because it wanted to be melty mcmelt all over the bench.
Ice cream sandwiches
Note: this is a scheduled post while I’m away. Replies to comments/emails will be even slower than usual. 🙂
This is my life nowadays. I get up early to bake cookies. Ten years ago, I would’ve been awake at the same time because I hadn’t gone to sleep yet after a night out.
Ahh, youth. As they say, it’s wasted on the young.
I’m not sure which part of my life I will remember more fondly, but in this part I have cookies and ice cream sandwiches and a tiny bit more wisdom. The invincible feeling of youth or cookies… tough choice!
Oat and cherry biscuits
Cookbook Challenge 2011: Fortnight 9,
Theme: Crunchy
Recipe: Oat and cherry biscuits aka Big Fat Thin Anzac Biscuits
Adapted from: Bourke Street Bakery
The Easter holiday this year has been fantastic! For any non-Australians, the Easter weekend coincided with Anzac Day, which meant a five day weekend for most people (or a 10 day weekend for me, because I took this week off!).
Maria and Daz invited us to a picnic for the Anzac Day public holiday, and I took the opportunity to make my Cookbook Challenge post for “crunchy”, taking along a variation of the Anzac biscuit. We ate food, drank wine and beer, had desserts, and then we played a cut-throat game of Kubb. There was a lot of screaming and insult hurling involved. So if you were in the vicinity of Queen’s Park on the Anzac Day holiday, no doubt you would have heard us. Major apologies!
Chocolate Brownies
Cookbook Challenge 2011: Fortnight 6
Theme: American
Recipe: Chocolate Brownies
Cookbook: The Kitchen Diaries
The next theme for the Cookbook Challenge is “American” and so I asked my brother, the American food expert in this house, for ideas. He gave me TONS of great ideas, which I then disregarded so I could make brownies. Sorry Bro!
But brownies? Who can say no to brownies?
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Rainbow cookies
Youtube released the list of their most viewed videos for 2010 recently.
Alastair hadn’t seen the double rainbow one yet so we watched it together. And look, if you haven’t seen it – just watch it. It’s hilarious in an awful, cringey, embarrassing, uncomfortable way.
My favourite line: What does this mean??? (It means that sun is shining on drops of water. Ahem.)
While I laughed at it, I do appreciate the sentiment behind it, because rainbows are fantastic. Kermit asked: why are there so many songs about rainbows? It’s because they’re fucking amazing, Kermit!
This is supposed to segue neatly into the theme of the last International Incident Party for the year, but unfortunately I seem to have made a hash of it. The theme is colours, and I took that theme and ran with it… to… rainbows. I made cookies! Rainbow cookies! (Us Australians normally call cookies biscuits, but there is NO WAY a cookie that looks like a rainbow should be called a biscuit).
Oh look, I got there in the end.
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Jam Drops
Cookbook Challenge: Week 50
Theme: Picnic
Recipe: Jam Drops
From: AWW Bake
Disclosure: I was sent samples of Bonne Maman jam from 360° Focus.
Oh dear, oh my. I’ve been a bad Cookbook Challenger again. This is the second week in a row that I haven’t prepared anything!
I fully intended to make something today, but we went out to lunch, and it turned out to be the biggest lunch the world has ever seen. No exaggeration. After we rolled out of the restaurant and rolled home, there was no way I could even consider cooking. Cooking = food, and I had eaten far too much to even think about it.
Fortunately, I’m going to do my TV Chef trick again:
Oh, here’s one I prepared earlier! 😀
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