There’s an air of mystique around baking, but it’s easy to master with a little guidance. Cakes, bread, pies, tarts, slices, biscuits, crumbles and flans – here are my favourite baking recipes
Spicy Lamb Sausage Rolls The spicy lamb sausage rolls at the Uraidla Bakery in the Adelaide Hills are the best sausage rolls I’ve ever tasted and this is my attempt to recreate them. I love Carême’s wholemeal spelt pastry for this recipe, but use any good butter puff. If using Carême (which is already the […]
Hazelnut & Butterscotch Pull-aparts Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Italian cooking class featuring Australian Classics! Hazelnut and butterscotch pull-aparts is one of the quickest and easiest sweet treats to make, yet looks fabulous and tastes delicious. That’s my kind of cooking! Best of all, you can use this technique to make any flavour […]
Classic Pavlova Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Australian cooking class inspired by Matt Moran! Let’s skip the Australia vs New Zealand debate and just agree that this popular dessert (as light as the ballerina Anna Pavlova), is delicious and much easier to make than it looks. The secret to a light crisp shell […]
Walnut & Cinnamon Coffee Cake Like this recipe?Find More Germanic Recipes Here! I’m not much of a baker, but this moist walnut and cinnamon coffee cake, with a scrumptious crunchy streusel topping, is foolproof and so delicious that it’s become my go-to when I need a homemade sweet treat to take to a friend’s house. […]
Date & Walnut Roll Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Australian cooking class inspired by Matt Moran! If I’m baking, it has to be super-easy, like this delicious date and walnut roll that I don’t even need to get the electric mixer out for. I remember my Aunty Dorothy making these when I was […]
Greek Leek & Cheese Pie (Prasopita) Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Greek cooking class Inspired by Janni Kyritsis! I’ve always loved Greek pies like spanakopita (spinach and cheese), tiropita (cheese) and hortopita (wild weeds – see video below). Then I discovered this Greek leek and cheese pie, which might just be the most […]
Butterscotch Cookies Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Australian cooking class inspired by Matt Moran! I love having something homemade to serve when friends drop by for a cuppa – but sometimes I just get caught short. That’s when I whip up a batch of these butterscotch cookies in less time than it takes […]
Bacon & Egg Pie Like this recipe? You’ll love my online cooking class Inspired by Janni Kyritsis! Bacon and egg pie is perfect for breakfast, lunch or dinner and, as it’s great served at room temperature, it makes ideal picnic fare. Best of all, the ingredients will be on hand in a well-stocked fridge. I […]
Lime Slice Like this recipe? You’ll love my online Caribbean cooking class inspired by Paul Carmichael! I recently had an abundance of limes, so made this delicious lime slice. You could use lemons, oranges or any other citrus, you might just want to adjust the sugar level depending on the sweetness of the juice. The […]
Tarte Flambee (Flammekueche) Like this recipe? You’ll love my online French cooking class Inspired by Damien Pignolet! This traditional flatbread from Alsace is very similar to pizza. My Alsatian friend Isabelle, who serves it whenever friends gather at her house for drinks, doesn’t use a written recipe – but this one was inspired by watching […]
