Way back in 2013, the hubby and I sat down and watched another episode of one of our favourite YouTube channels, Laura in the Kitchen. This particular episode was for a molten lava cake, but not chocolate in flavour as you might often see. Whilst the episode was still playing, the hubby searched the interweb to find the key ingredient, which isn’t readily available in Australia, to make the scrumptious looking Butterscotch Molten Lava Cakes.
Maple Apple Cake
So you will have gathered by now that I am in love with the rose shape/swirl as I use it for my cupcakes, on cakes and even, to a possibly far-fetched connection, in my vegetable tart. It will come as no surprise that I actually own a rose shaped cake tin.
I have had this beautiful tin from NordicWare for quite some time now and I definitely do not use it enough. So it was time to call on another recipe I have had pinned for quite some time now, being a Maple Apple Cake, to showcase the gorgeous shape this tin creates.
Milk and Cookies Cupcakes
Quite a while ago, 2nd July 2012 to be exact, a very cute post appeared in my feed reader for some cupcakes. The post was by Steph from Raspberri Cupcakes, who inspired the Fruit Tingle Macarons, for her Milk and Chocolate Chip Cookie Cupcakes.
I tend to decorate my cupcakes quite basic with my favourite rose swirl piping technique, but there are quite a few different cupcakes on my Pinterest board decorated with mini pancakes, various flowers, cream puffs and mini versions of baking equipment that I hope to try. These cupcakes are quite cute and really easy, plus you cannot beat this classic combination so I present these Milk and Cookies Cupcakes for your viewing pleasure.
Sticky Date Cake with Butterscotch Sauce
For the latest birthday cake at the hubby’s place of employment, a sticky date cake with butterscotch sauce was requested. As with the hummingbird and carrot cake I have made them previously, this was another that I had not attempted before so I checked my trusty Women’s Weekly Classic Cakes book, which of course contained said recipe, and got to work.
Hummingbird Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
When there is a birthday at the hubby’s work, one of the women in his office is the dedicated birthday cake maker.
For one of the recent birthdays, she was unavailable so I was asked to make the birthday cake for D. The cake chosen was one I haven’t made before, being a Hummingbird Cake with Cream Cheese Icing, but it was super simple and went down a treat with everyone, most importantly the birthday girl.
Pork Ribs with Blood Plum Sauce
The hubby grew up on a farm just out of town and on it was a lone blood plum tree. His Grandpa tried to get him to eat them when he was a youngin’, and of course he protested because he had no idea what they were and kids are just fussy. But Grandpa wouldn’t have a bar of it and shoved a blood plum in his mouth and told him to try it (not that he had much choice at this stage). Obviously Grandpa knew what he was talking about and the hubby immediately fell in love with them.
In recent years, the hubby started brewing his own liquor and had a thought one day to source some blood plums to soak in the alcohol for a little bit more of a grown up trip down memory lane. Once the first batch of blood plum liquor had been made, the hubby had the wondrous idea of using it in a sauce for some pork ribs he had sitting the freezer after recalling one of his favourite combos in Chinese cuisine being pork and plum sauce. Hence, his Pork Ribs with Blood Plum Sauce were born.
Chocolate and Caramel Brownies
Last year, Adriano Zumbo had a television series about his work and in the third episode he headed back to the town where he grew up. In that episode, he visited the local school and made chocolate and caramel brownies with some of the students.
The recipe looked pretty darn tasty which was a good invitation to make it as far as I was concerned.
Ultimate Chocolate Chip Cookie
At my primary school, we often had a day or week where a particular country was the focus. One year was the United States and in the newsletter that came around there was a recipe for Chocolate Chip Cookies. As the recipe is for the most ridiculously good Chocolate Chip Cookie, since then it has been the only version that has ever been made in my family. As they say, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it!
Cinnamon Scrolls
The first time I had cinnamon scrolls was when a friend of my brother’s came over from Canada to visit about 4 years ago. They were the fluffiest, gooiest and most delicious cinnamon treat I had ever had. I previously have had a love/hate relationship with cinnamon but it is now easily one of my favourite spices (it is tied for first place with nutmeg). Of course this meant I had to track down a recipe so I could continue making these myself.