Posts Tagged ‘baking’

The muffins signal the end

Following my end of semester/end of classes tradition I made triple chocolate mini muffins for my students. I made these along with Jam Donut Mini Muffins at Christmas for our friends. I also brought a batch of mini muffins to uni yesterday for my officemates, and I made sure our own cake tin at home […]

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Mothers Day, sweet

For dessert we served the chewy chocolate brownies with a dollop of double cream, a scoop of So Good vanilla soy ice cream and a sprinkling of chopped peanuts. Mmmmmmm, double cream. The recipe for the brownies came from Jac’s Good Housekeeping All Colour Cook Book. It’s so easy. Gather ingredients, mix thoroughly in bowl, […]

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Baked chocolate cheesecake

The box. We bought half a baked chocolate cheesecake. The cheesecake has a layer of chocolate icing and is topped with big balls of chocolate mousse with glace cherries. And all along the outside are flaked almonds. I didn’t have a slice, but I did eat the bits off the knife when I cut a […]

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Savannah’s sleepover, Part 2

Savannah requested bacon, eggs, baked beans and toast for breakfast this morning. While the bacon was frying, I squeezed us a glass of orange juice each. I didn’t take a photo of the bacon and eggs since I’ve already featured photos of bacon and eggs a number of times. After breakfast, Savannah and I baked […]

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Christmas mini muffins

On Friday night of the week just gone, I baked a batch of triple chocolate mini muffins for Jac’s friends – we were going to the annual Christmas barbecue/get-together on Saturday night. I’d baked these muffins before, and I made them just the same this time round: the muffins were chocolate-flavoured, with choc chips and [&hellip…

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Night-time baking

We’ve had these four over-ripe bananas sitting in the bowl, getting blacker and blacker. I decided last night to do some baking with them before they became completely inedible. I baked a batch of banana mini muffins. I threw in half a cup of sultanas in the mix, and made half of them banana, sultana […]

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