Category: Cakes

Ultimate Sea Salt Brownies

Dark Deluxe Brownies with Sea Salt Flakes

Sweet and savoury is always a winning combo. Brownies offer a great opportunity to pull off this complex dance of flavours to impress family or guests. The irresistible deep chocolate sweetness of the brownies, jiving with an elusive hint of sea salt: seriously YUM!!!

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Black Sesame Swiss Roll

Black Sesame Swiss Roll

The texture of this black sesame Swiss roll is pillowy soft and the flavour is incredibly rich and nutty from the black sesame powder balanced by the freshly whipped cream. Delicious!

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Pandan Coconut Lamington

Pandan Coconut Lamingtons

Lamingtons from Australia are absolutely delicious square cakes, traditionally coated with chocolate and desiccated coconut. This is my striking variation, using the famous Asian extract from the Pandan leaf and white chocolate. It’s sweet, it’s green, it’s totally irresistible.

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Banana Cinnamon Bundt Cake

Bundt cakes just look so beautifully classy and they are definitely a fitting centrepiece for any type of celebration! Show them at their best decorated with simple snowy icing sugar or perhaps a subtle drizzle-glaze; either choice is perfect and these cakes taste fantastic!

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How to use up your over-ripe bananas

Never throw away overripe bananas: they may be dark and spotty and not look very appetising but do you know that this is when they are at their most nutritious? How about making the most of all that goodness and deep banana flavour by turning these outcasts into a delicious cake? From reject to the pick of the bunch.

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Surprise Inside Cake – Zebra Stripes

How can something this simple look so special? A basic vanilla cake staple, which every baker must have in their locker, is turned into a mystery surprise with a little creative colouring. Mystery or played straight, this bake is super moist and fluffy and lends itself to any sort of decoration. Eat it on its own, or ice it, or cover it with buttercream, jam, chocolate, lemon – the only limit is your imagination with this most versatile sponge.

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