As I was catching up on my YouTube subscriptions, this little cake appeared in the list for one of my favourite channels, Cupcake Jemma. The hubby happened to be around at the time and watched it with me then requested I make it immediately. Unfortunately for him, there were no blueberries in the house, but the next day I headed to the shops to pick up some to make this ridiculously delicious Blueberry Crumble Cake.
Banana Chocolate Chip Cinnamon Scrolls
Usually when I have bananas that are reaching the end of their life I make banana bread or a banana cake but this time I wanted to do something different. I also was in the mood for making some scrolls and knowing that Sally from Sally’s Baking Addiction has some amazing scrolls (or rolls as they are sometimes called) on her website, a quick search resulted in a recipe which met my needs.
So for your viewing and eating pleasure, I present Banana Chocolate Chip Cinnamon Scrolls.
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.
Cinnamon Sweet Bread – Daring Bakers Challenge
I don’t know if I could live in a world without bread. Whether it be the smell of freshly baked bread or admiring the endless shapes and flavours it can assume, bread really is one of my favourite foods. And I must confess, some days you still really can’t beat butter and vegemite on a piece of fresh white bread, which in winter I usually enhance by putting it in the microwave for 20 seconds to get all warm. Mmmmmm….
But back to this months Daring Bakers Challenge which was to take bread and shape it into something a little fancy. If you follow me on Pinterest, you will see on my bread board I have a few fancy shaped breads which are on my “to do” list. For this challenge, I stuck with one of the provided recipes which was for a cinnamon sweet bread as you know how much I love cinnamon.
Snickerdoodles
I was in a biscuit making mood recently and although I initially thought of something chocolate, I recalled a cinnamon flavoured biscuit with a funny name and was pretty sure I saw a recipe on one of my favourite blogs.
So I headed over to Sally’s website, Sally’s Baking Addiction, and did a search for Snickerdoodles and a number of recipes appeared. The one I ended up choosing was the soft and thick snickerdoodles, because let’s face it, they look amazing (as does everything on Sally’s blog)!
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.
Spiced Apple Sauce
As you have probably gathered, the hubby loves his pork. Whether it is in a pie, soup or just roasted, the man loves pork. One night he was having crumbed pork cutlets (which his awesome vegetarian wife discovered at the local butcher) and forgot to pick up the apple sauce from the supermarket so he grabbed a couple of apples from the fruit bowl, spices from the pantry and had a go at making his own. Needless to say we won’t be going back to the supermarket for apple sauce again.
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.