…….because life is sweet !
“Fool me once , shame on you. Fool me twice , shame on me.” A fool is an English dessert , which is classically made with stewed fruit and some whipped cream. In my mind it is a slightly more upscale version of fruit with cream ? Many variations on the fool exist , the …
“Health food may be good for the conscience but Oreos taste a hell of a lot better.”- Robert Redford Cookies and cream seems to be a recurring theme on the blog. Brownies and fudge and cheesecake and now cake. I don’t like eating Oreos as much as I like crushing them and chopping them and …
“There is no perfection, only beautiful versions of brokenness.” – Shannon Alder. If you are a perfectionist and love uniformity , look away now ! Because these cocoa meringues arent for you . They are unapologetically uneven and varied ! But I kind of like that they are of all shapes and slightly different sizes. …
“Because in the end , its the everydays that make up a lifetime.” I have been having a little bit of a baker’s block since the beginning of the month. The fact that I have been unusually busy and have had little time at home hasn’t helped matters. I was overthinking things a bit I …
“I’m not a vegetarian! I’m a dessertarian!”- Bill Watterson. I think I have become all the more annoying to my friends and family since I have started a food blog. For starters , I keep asking them to describe in detail what they think about the cake or cookie I made them. Good or tasty …
“Hot cross buns , hot cross buns , one a penny , two a penny , hot cross buns…. “ Like the scones from Enid Blyton and the butter beer from Harry Potter , I have always wondered what hot cross cakes from the kindergarten rhyme would taste like. What better way to find out …
“Never stress the could haves. If it should have, it would have.” I like baking with bananas and while I have seen several recipes involving caramelised bananas , I stayed away for two reasons : 1. I am an innately lazy person and often (not always) I tend to skip over recipes that involve several …
“Sometimes it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants” ― Little Women I like to crib about things I’d love to use in my bakes but don’t really find easily where I live. Like passionfruit and lavender and elderflower and rhubarb … and berries. Fresh blueberries, raspberries and blackberries are slim pickings …
“Families are like fudge – mostly sweet, with a few nuts.”― Les Dawson. It’s summer . It’s hot. Don’t feel like switching on the oven ? Totally understand. Which is why fudge is the perfect answer for a chocolate craving in the sweltering heat. After chocolate ice cream of course. Did I say this is …
“A basic rule of baking is that, in general, it’s almost impossible to make an inedible batch of brownies.” – Linda Sunshine. Its April already . Why is this year in such a rush to get over with! Not that I should be complaining, I have …