Baked Goods Recipes

Sparkling Gingerbread Loaf

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I’ve taken this week of work as I was supposed to be heading up to Seattle to catch up with some friends. Long story short is I didn’t make it to the US due to a few issues Qantas were having with their planes, so I’ve put my trip on hold until the new year. [...]

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Maria’s Bittersweet Chocolate Brownies

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If you like your chocolate dark and your coffee black with no sugar you will love these brownies. I asked my friend Maria to share some of her favorite holiday recipes and this is one of the ones she gave me, a bittersweet chocolate brownie with espresso and rapadura. Maria is from Spain, the Canary [...]

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Berry Stella Cookies

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I wasn’t sure what to call this recipe. I don’t usually go for gimmicky names; I much prefer to call out the predominant or unique characteristics of a recipe and work that into the name. But these oatmeal cookies have a lot of good things I just can’t squeeze into the name. First, they’re about [...]

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Walnut Oat Crackers

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A few weeks back Sun and I went on a trip to the South Island to visit my parents as well as hit the snow and do some sightseeing. One of the highlights of our trip was the Tranz-Alpine train between Christchurch and Greymouth. We’d planned to do the day trip after hearing from some [...]

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Gingerbread Bundt Cake

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I actually baked this cake a few months back, when the New Zealand winter was edging in and I wanted to bake something warm and spicy. The typical New Zealand gingerbread loaf is sweetened with bucket-loads of golden syrup (a paler version of treacle) which I personally find a little overwhelming as it tends to [...]

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ANZAC Cookies

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Last year I had the pleasure of working with Annabelle White for a project at work. I was instantly captivated by her sparkling passion for food and the work that she does. Annabelle has a contagious enthusiasm that can lift up even the least confident cook, like myself at the time, and get them buzzing [...]

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Luxury Mesquite Hot Cross Buns

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It took me five batches to nail this recipe. Thankfully I’ve had the house to myself most of the weekend so I’ve been able to go hard, mixing, melting, kneading and proofing over and over. The kitchen is a total write off. I’ve never made such a mess. But I don’t care because these buns [...]

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Dark Chocolate Ginger Scones

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Sometimes I get fixated on an inspiration or recipe for days. But, like a dog with a bone, I only obsess until I find something prettier and shinier and forget why I wanted it so bad in the first place. This week it was passionfruit curd. I stumbled across the recipe online and could already [...]

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Cardamom Cookies

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Cardamom Cookies. Perfectly crisp, lightly sugared, and slightly puffed on the outside. Soft and sparkling with flavour on the inside.

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Blackberry Peach Galette

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Today is Sunday and I got up at 7am. Now being the 25 year old GEN-Y-er that I am, I firmly subscribe to the theory that Sunday and 7am do not belong in the same sentence. But today I was willing (Sun, not so much) to make an exception. For today we were on a [...]

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