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Chocolate Pots With Salted Caramel Toffee

Are “chocolate pots” a new thing?  I had never heard of them before August 24, 2009, when I was in the hospital with my newborn baby.  I was trying to decide on my dinner from the hospital menu, and when I got to the desserts, I saw “chocolate pot”. Read more

Honeyed Macadamia Pears

It’s Autumn here in Australia and this is a great time to be eating pears.  I like pears, but I don’t eat very much of them, nor do I do a lot of baking with them. Read more

Chicken, Because We’re Sick Of Chocolate!

I hope everyone had a fantastic, best-ever Easter this year!  We sure did!  We went to Koala Park Sanctuary here in Sydney for Easter Sunday.  I didn’t realize what this place actually was until we were inside – it is filled with Australian wildlife! Read more

Fudge Brownies

Last week my 3-year-old son had his tonsils and adenoids removed.  What a stressful time for all of us!  Even though this type of surgery is the most common one performed on children, any parent would still be worried about this happening to their own child. Read more

Tim Tam Truffle Pops

Cake pops and cookie pops are becoming quite popular; they’ve even inspired pies, brownies and other yummy treats to hop onto sticks as well.  It’s the latest craze for food these days. Read more

Double-Chocolate Cookies

Wouldn’t you know it?  I got my new camera and then I had a string of failures in the kitchen.  They were tasty failures, but they were definitely not blog-worthy or even worthy of photographing with my new camera. Read more

Easy, Eggless Tiramisu

I realize that I have not updated here with a new recipe for a while!  Although I have a few things to get done today (including making egg salad and cooking the honey-mustard chicken that’s been marinating overnight, picking up my daughter from school and taking my 3-year-old son to an ear, nose and throat specialist to consider having his tonsils taken out) I really want to update with a lovely, delicious recipe for eggless tiramisu. Read more

Quadruple Chocolate Pistachio Cupcakes

This is a cupcake that I’ve had in the works for a few weeks – my “chocolate cake with a twist” cupcake challenge inspired me!  Of course, I won’t enter my own competition, but I did want to try out my idea. Read more

Orange Marmalade & Chocolate Shortbread

It’s been an excrutiating week for me.  I’m still waiting on my camera to arrive!  For those who don’t know, I recently won my first digital SLR camera thanks to the help of the readers of my blog! Read more

Tiramisu Cupcakes

I love tiramisu, but I haven’t had it nearly enough.  In fact, I may have eaten tiramisu only twice in my life.  The most recent tasting was amazing. Read more

The Madderneine Cake

I am extremely happy to be showing you this cake.  This cake is the product of my 5-year-old daughter’s imagination. Read more