Sweet Treats by the Sea

Making a bundt cake is a do or die event – it can be a fabulous success or equally a dismal disaster. Last week I decided to make a bundt cake to celebrate the birthday of one of the team members and fortunately it was a success. The recipe is taken from the Delicious web…

I like trying recipes that use unusual ingredients and this time the ingredient is black beans. The brownies are very moist, but taste very similar to more traditional brownies and without flour, they have the bonus of being gluten free. The recipe is taken from the DoTerra web site with the addition of local Tasmanian…

This cake is of Jewish origin and made  as a Passover dessert. This week it was made to celebrate the birthday of one of the team members. It is delicious with a walnut base and an almond meringue top and a bonus is that it is gluten free. The recipe came from the SBS sponsored…

This mudcake recipe is enjoyed by people who don’t eat sugar, but if you really have a sweet tooth, you will find it bitter. The recipe is taken from an e-book, Sweet, by Alice Nicholls.   Ingredients for cake 200 g raw chocolate or 90% dark chocolate, chopped 1/4 cup raw cacao powder, sifted 2/3…

Winter in southern Australia means mandarins are available. This cake could be made with oranges at any time of the year, but the mandarins add a slightly different flavour. The cake is gluten free. The recipe is modification of one I found in a magazine (not sure which one) sometime ago.   Ingredients for cake…

This is a very retro cake; the title suggests it is a coffee flavoured cake, but  in the 1980’s a coffee cake was a cake you ate while drinking coffee. The cake is a simple to make and tasty cake for morning tea. The team ate the cake cold, but it is really good served…

These little cup cakes are made with my go to chocolate cake recipe. The recipe makes one large cake or around 22 good sized cup cakes. The cup cakes can be decorated for any occasion, but in this case being so close to Easter, it seemed appropriate to have an Easter theme. The recipe is…

This cake was a hit with the team at our last meeting. It is super easy to make. The original recipe suggests using ginger, but I used a mix of dried fruit. The recipe is taken from “Through the Seasons” by Annabel Langbein.   Ingredients for cake 1 cup dried fruit, chopped – 50% apricots,…

We are very fortunate during the blueberry season that Twelve Trees Farm deliver their organic blueberries to our workplace, so for our first team meeting of the year, we had to have a blueberry cake. This cake is very simple to make, extremely moist and tastes great. The cake can be made gluten free by…

I was asked to make a healthy dessert for a friends summer dinner party. This tart combines nuts, fruit and dairy, but no sugar and looks and tastes great – it is also so easy to make. The walnut pastry is a modified version of Mary Berry’s recipe (BBC food recipes) and the dairy filling…

For our last team meeting for the year, we had mini plum puddings. These are so easy to make and taste so good. The recipe is a mix of several that I have taken from different sources. Hoping everyone has a very Happy Christmas. Ingredients 700 g christmas cake, crumbled 250 g chocolate, melted 1/4…

For this week’s team meeting I tried this gluten free cake which was described as subtly fragrant, full of zing, moist and delicate and it turned out to be all of these. I decorated the cake with a simple citrus flavoured icing decorated with strips of glace clementine. The recipe was taken from the Nigella…