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Espresso Chocolate Chip Cupcakes … Espress-o-love for Mother’s Day!!
These muffins are great for a coffee loving Mum! Nothing like a deep, delicious espresso cupcake to make the day complete. Dark chocolate pairs beautifully with coffee, and IMHO, a creme chantilly topping might compliment these cupcakes nicely too.
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Pebbly Beach Fruit Squares … charming cookies for Mothers Day!
“If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.” Erma Brombeck Happy May! There was a time when as kids we would go around shrieking May Daaaaaay May Daaaaaay on the 1st of May, giggling stupidly at the SOS call. By the time history classes began, May Day was synonymous with Labour Day, where we studied labour relations, about the ILO etc, and life began to get mundane. May’s here and the only thought that tears through my mind is ‘ALREADY?’ Are we really almost halfway through the year?Life has been a roller coaster ride of late which might sort of explain why I’ve been a bit slow…
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Whipped Strawberry Curd Cream Tartlets with Walnut Shortbread Crust
A delightful light summer berry tart with a walnut shortbread crust, and a whipped strawberry curd cream to fill the crust! A new twist to lemon curd, and we loved it!!
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Delicious Old Fashioned Eggless Chocolate Cake with Balsamic Strawberry & Cream Filling
We loved this cake! It's special because it is a layered cake, EGGLESS, no butter and still deeply decadent and 'chocolaty' moist! I filled it with a balsamic strawberry and cream filling, and slathered it with a deep decadent chocolate ganache using a 65% dark chocolate - divine!
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Yeasted Meringue Coffee Cake – Sweet & savoury for Daring Bakers
The monthly date with Daring Bakers and this tiime we were challenged to make a 'Mets la main à la pâte' or Yeasted Meringue Coffee Cake. I did both a sweet and savoury take on the challenge, and used 'painted bread technique' that I recently discovered! Fun and delicious ...
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Mousse-a-cotta with Macs in the Air!
A deliicous experiment later, mousse-a-cotta or panna-mousse is what found its way back into these goblets. It found its way into the dwarfs tummies at express speed too! They loved the second fast track attempt, one that I added a dash of espresso to as well. Served them with sesame macarons!
