Posted in cake, melbourne on August 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
my bananas haven’t ripened as much as i wanted so i decided on a simple butter cake this weekend. probably not the smoothest batter you’ve ever seen…
and i’m starting to think my cake tin is just a little bit too big. flat cake, again.
but you can’t really go wrong with a butter cake i guess, [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, melbourne on August 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
we’re spoilt for choice when it comes to chocolates and cakes in melbourne. you’ve got the wonder that is let them eat cake, if you’re a milk chocolate person then max brenner should do it for you, if you favour dark chocolate like me then koko black is the way to go. i’d go to [...]
Posted in cake, eating in on August 9, 2009 | 4 Comments »
ok so it was a toss up between pandan cake, butter cake and chocolate cake this weekend and i felt that i had to give the pandan cake a second shot before i moved on. for some reason i couldn’t access the webpage that the old recipe was on, so i went for a different [...]
Posted in cake, eating in on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
after my almost success with the pandan cake i decided that i would give a coffee cake a go. i used this recipe.
the cake was a little flatter than i would have like because of the cake tin size (hmm, i see a bit of a pattern developing here)…
but apart from that it was pretty [...]
Posted in cake, eating in on July 26, 2009 | 4 Comments »
sorry for the VERY sporadic blogging! i don’t really know what came over me but this weekend i felt i HAD to bake something. taking a leaf out of the masterchef kitchen’s book i decided that i would give pandan cake a whack
i’ve never baked in this kitchen, i’ve only made cold desserts [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, melbourne on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
chapellis (571 chapel street, south yarra 03 9826 9516) are pretty decent when it comes to cakes. much better than cafe greco, anyway.
it was a pretty day on sunday, so k and i strolled down chapel street. on our way home i needed to get a little treat to reward myself for cooking dinner, so [...]
Posted in cake, chocolate, melbourne on September 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
the first birthday cake i remember having had little mermaid sitting in a corner. the little mermaid i had didn’t have Ariel’s red hair, she was blonde but man that cake was fabulous!
fast forward a decade later.. there is a bakery in perth that is in a terrible location. the afternoon sun shines right into [...]
