Recipe – Coconut Jelly

Coconut Jelly This light, fluffy, slightly sweet coconut jelly, often seen on yum cha trolleys, is also a popular finish to a spicy meal in Malaysia where it’s known as agar-agar kelapa. I use Ayam Tetra Pak coconut milk for desserts rather than the canned one; it’s whiter and smoother so works better in sweet […]

Recipe – Lemon Shortbread Cookies

Lemon Shortbread Cookies I created these lemon shortbread cookies by accident. I started thinking about classic Aussie melting moments – but I didn’t have any cornflour so substituted rice flour, which gave my cookies more of a shortbread texture. I still made the lemon buttercream filling, but instead of using it to sandwich 2 cookies […]

Recipe – Chocolate & Raspberry Brownies

Chocolate & Raspberry Brownies This American classic is one of the easiest sweet treats to make. The recipe could be written in one sentence: melt butter and chocolate, whisk eggs and sugar, combine, fold in flour and bake. The most delicious brownies I’ve ever had were made by Scottish food writer Sue Lawrence; they contained […]

Recipe – Nanaimo Bar

Nanaimo Bar This is my version of the delicious unbaked slice I discovered years ago on a road trip through Canada. It hails from the town of Nanaimo on Vancouver Island, but is popular throughout the country. It’s a simple biscuit base with creamy custard-flavoured filling and chocolate ganache topping – and it’s irresistible! Nanaimo […]

Recipe – Butterscotch Cookies

Butterscotch Cookies 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 to dash out to the shop for a packet of biscuits! You could save […]

Recipe – Lime Slice

Lime Slice 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 dough can be soft and difficult to handle if you don’t refrigerate it first, […]

Recipe – Anzac Biscuits

Anzac Biscuits A number of foreign friends living in Australia have said that Anzac Day feels more like our national day than Australia Day does. And the legend of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps, and their battle at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915, is certainly etched deep in the Australian psyche. It’s so […]

Recipe – Nanna’s Caramel Walnut Slice

Nanna’s Caramel Walnut Slice I came across this recipe recently, in my grandmother’s handwriting on a piece of paper tucked into an old exercise book where she’d written out her favourite recipes and stored others clipped from magazines and the sides of packets. What a treasure trove – there was even a letter from my […]

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