Surprise! Despite appearances (or lack thereof), you haven’t seen the last of me 😀 I did miss a whole year… and then some… but we didn’t miss Galentine’s Day last year. The truth is, I was a bit light on photos from the 2023 party and there was a bit of… damage… to the cake.… Continue reading Ori-gal-mi Party {Galentine’s Day 2024}
And so finally I found myself with a weekend afternoon free of urgent to-dos, and thought “how about putting one of those recipes I’m asked for so often (ahem, I might be paraphrasing), onto the blog?!” This is hardly my recipe though, lifted from Marian Keye’s own bakebook Saved By Cake but with a few… Continue reading “Claire Cake” or so I’m told {Coconut & Rhubarb Cake}
Hard to believe it’s March (true story: I thought it was still February until this afternoon!) which means that another Galentine’s Day party has been and gone. After the year we’ve had (if I had a dollar for the number of times I’ve thought that…) it’s been great to have a knees up to look… Continue reading Arrows of Friendship {Galentine’s Day 2021}
Happy August – well the end thereof! I hope it’s been a happy one where you are, even if you’re back under lockdown (for what might seem like a million days?) I’m hoping that this post might spark a little bit of happy for you, especially if you’re a fan of pretty (girly) cakes… This… Continue reading Mermaid Ombré Two-Tone Buttercream Cake
I don’t often make a big deal about my birthday – especially this year, since my son turned two (?!?!!!) just a few weeks beforehand. But this past week I had a few friends ask to stop by on my actual birthday-day so I felt it was only right that there be birthday cake for… Continue reading My Birthday Cake {Vanilla Passionfruit Cake}
How is it (mid)February 2020 already?! Something to do, I suspect, with time speeding up as I hurtled through January in anticipation of the last weekend, when I headed up catering for our church’s annual camp. Then a blip of two weeks and suddenly Galentine’s Day was here again! What’s more, I had two other… Continue reading Pink and Gold Girly Time {Galentines Day 2020}
Spring has truly sprung in Christchurch, complete with rain showers every second day that make it hard to know whether to hang out the washing or wait before watering the plants… But spring has it’s beautiful benefits: our garden has been slowly filling with blooms, from a patch where I planted wildflower seeds in autumn,… Continue reading Bake Sale-worthy Carrot Cake {Carrot Cake with Orange Cream Cheese Icing}
Are you keen to pipe buttercream like a professional? Or to smooth icing like a star?? Do you want a buttercream that doesn’t taste gritty, just smooth and not too sweet??? Then you need Swiss meringue buttercream in your life, and this post is for you 😉 I’ve been waxing lyrical about Swiss meringue buttercream… Continue reading Swiss Meringue Buttercream, Revisited {SMBC Recipe 2.0}
It’s that time of the year that our family celebrates three birthdays in the space of two days – in other words, an opportunity for an epic cake! And this year my lovely mother-in-law was having a Significant Birthday (21 of course!!). So this cake was definitely more of her thing than the other two… Continue reading Stencilled Fault-line Cake Tutorial {A Significant Birthday}
So this week is Blue Week, a fundraiser for Plunket, and I’ve somehow managed to time it with this post containing BLUE biscuits! I’ve had the pleasure of seeing the fabulous work of Plunket NZ since even before my son was born, starting with antenatal classes and followed by late night phone calls to Plunketline… Continue reading Cookie Monster Cookies {Left-over Buttercream Bikkies}
Sweet nor'westerly 