Browsing Category

Recipes

  • Vanilla and Chocolate Cheesecake

    Brûlée Chocolate and Vanilla Cheesecake

    Making a sugary crust on the top of this silky smooth cheesecake is like placing the cherry on top of a cake.  It finishes it off and adds a perfect crunch to…

  • Mini Layered Chocolate Cake

    My favourite cakes to make are Mini Layered ones.  The ingredients that are required are minimal, and they are so cute and stand as high as they are round.  The slices are…

  • Edible flowers trending for 2018

    Edible Flowers

    Micro greens have for a long time been the flourish that chefs and foodies have used to make an ordinary dish look more appealing.   This year however, an extra panache will be added…

  • Christmas Food Roundup 2017

    If you are planning a party this festive season, make sure you cater for everyone , vegetarian,  seafood lovers,  meat and chicken eaters, and of  course those of you addicted to delicious desserts…

  • Vanilla cake with chai buttercream

    Vanilla Butter Cake with Chai Spiced Frosting

    The sweet smell of cinnamon, mixed spice and ginger are such a perfect complement to this vanilla butter cake.  I love to make vanilla cakes, as the choice of frosting is endless and this beautiful…

  • How to make meringues

    Meringue Kisses

    Meringues are such a deceptive dessert on so many levels, they seem so simple to make yet with their delicate crisp exterior you never know if you will be getting a gorgeous…

  • Dark Chocolate Ganache Tartlets

    These elegant Dark Chocolate Ganache Tartlets are my new “go to” for a luxury dessert that looks fabulous, yet is pretty easy to make.  Once you have mastered a pastry crust, the rest…

  • Almond Butter Chocolates

    Almond Butter Chocolates

    Life is a series of choices, and the ones we make decide our future.  Some are good and some are bad and the same applies to our food choices.  “We are what…

  • Donna Hay Chai cheesecake

    Chai Spiced Cheesecakes

    These Chai Spiced Cheesecakes are made with spices that depict the essence of the earth.  Cinnamon, Cardamom, Nutmeg and Cloves form the heart of these Mixed Spice little beauties, with a ginger and almond…