Sometimes She Bakes: Peanut Butter & Chocolate Brownies

Last week I received David Lebovitz’ book Ready for Dessert from the Book Depository. The first thing I did when I got it home was pick a recipe and try it out. Of course it involved chocolate. Recipe adapted from David Lebovitz’ Ready for Dessert, ‘Roberts Absolute Best Brownies’. Ingredients 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut(click to read the full post)

by Liz | 4 comments | July 29, 2010 at 8:01 am

Sometimes She Bakes: Mandarin Syrup Cake

While walking through the farmers markets yesterday, we walked past a stall selling mandarins. Just mandarins. I started walking towards the stall. Never mind that I don’t like mandarins. And neither does Jarod. I came back with a bag of 10 mandarins for $5. Jarod asked what I was going to do with them. “Bake(click to read the full post)

by Liz | 2 comments | July 25, 2010 at 6:13 pm

Noice-ities: Favourite Winter Recipe.

This week’s Noice-ities is: What is your favourite winter recipe? Winter is my favourite time of year and it can only be made better with a Jarod and Liz Special Dinner Pie. These pies were the first attempt we made (almost a year ago now), but now we just make one massive pie in a(click to read the full post)

by Liz | one comment | April 24, 2010 at 3:54 pm

Nutella Banana Muffins.

I found this recipe the other day while searching for things to make with the bananas hiding in my freezer. Of course it didn’t take long to find an excuse to try it. Nutella Banana Muffins Ingredients 2 eggs 125g soft butter 100g sugar 2 large ripe bananas 100g Nutella 100ml milk 1 tsp baking(click to read the full post)

by Liz | 2 comments | January 12, 2010 at 10:00 am

Choc Mint Slice: Attempt One.

On Friday night I picked up some peppermint essence from the shops – something I have been meaning to do for weeks but I never got around to putting it on the shopping list. Now with peppermint essence in hand, I could make choc mint slice. Yesterday in the stupid Sydney heat I was determined(click to read the full post)

by Liz | 2 comments | January 10, 2010 at 11:57 am

Banana Butterscotch Pudding

Or as I like to call it: Bananascotch pudding. A couple of weekends ago we bought some bananas. Perhaps a few too many, because as they got to that nice brown-specked sweet stage, I couldn’t eat them all. I put them in the freezer until I could find a use for them that wasn’t the(click to read the full post)

by Liz | one comment | December 20, 2009 at 1:50 pm

Cakes on a stick.

So for some reason I got the idea in my head that making cakes on a stick (Bakerella’s Cake Pops) would be a great idea. And somewhat easy to do. And here’s a step by step that will put my post to shame. I had all the ingredients, but was missing the lollipop sticks. After(click to read the full post)

by Liz | 2 comments | December 13, 2009 at 4:14 pm

Mini Maple Pancake Muffins

Made for breakfast this morning. If breakfast time is still breakfast time at 11.30am. Recipe from bakerella: 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon baking soda 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 tablespoons sugar 2/3 cup buttermilk 1 egg 2 tablespoons pure maple syrup (I used maple ‘flavoured’ syrup, and it didn’t seem to make(click to read the full post)

by Liz | no comments | December 12, 2009 at 11:40 am

Chocolate cupcakes.

I made cupcakes. So I could use my new mixy thingy. They’re awesome. Both the cupcakes and the mixy thingy, that is. The cupcakes have a slightly crisp shell, but then are all fluffy and delicious on the inside. 100g dark chocolate 1 cup (250ml) water 125g butter, softened 1 1/4 cups (255g) brown sugar(click to read the full post)