Sweet Treats by the Sea

I’m visiting a friend at the moment who wanted to try Crack – an easy chocolate caramel snack which is very trendy and quite addictive – hence the name. The trendiness is due to the Chat 10 Looks 3 podcast which has seen the Crack recipe go viral. This recipe, with a couple of modifications,…

I have been wanting to try this cake for some time, so for this week’s team meeting I gave it a go. This recipe is very easy and delivers a really moist cake. I decorated the cake with a butter icing flavoured with lime juice and a little gin with a little lime zest grated…

For our team meeting this week, I made a simple orange cake. This recipe is so easy and delivers a moist cake. I decorated the cake with a butter icing flavoured with orange juice and then grated some Lindt orange intense dark chocolate over the icing for an extra orange zing. The recipe was taken…

For this week’s team meeting, I made a cake I really enjoyed while I was on holidays; I spent time in Spain and particularly in the north of Spain, tarta de Santiago is served everywhere. It is often decorated with the cross of St James and is thus associated with the Camino trail. The cake…

It has been a while since I posted a recipe as I have been away on a rather long holiday. Last Friday, it was one of the team member’s birthday. This staff member has been working on a captive breeding program to ensure the survival of the endangered “spotted hand fish” species. These cute little…

I have been working in warm and sunny Darwin for the past week and made this cake for some Darwin staff. The saffron not only adds a lovely flavour to the cake, but gives it a lovely pale yellow colour. The recipe was originally taken from the SBS Feast magazine; the magazine no longer exists,…

It has been a few weeks since we had a team meeting, so this week I tried a cake I have never made before. This cake is very decadent and is probably more like a dessert than a morning tea cake. It has a texture between a mousse and fudge and the addition of the…

For our team meeting this week, I made a long standing favourite – chocolate brownies. The recipe is a mixture of several recipes and was made with Tasmanian walnuts.   Ingredients 185 g dark chocolate chopped into small pieces 125 g unsalted butter chopped into small pieces 2 eggs lightly beaten 1 tsp vanilla extract…

I have made this pie a couple of times this summer and it is really tasty with the occasional ping of ginger. It is especially good when made with the blackberries from Westerway Raspberry Farm in southern Tasmania. The recipe is taken from The Pie project by Phoebe Wood and Kirsten Jenkins. Ingredients for pastry…

My friend Jill admirably follows a no sugar diet, so I made this cake for her birthday. The cake has no refined sugar, but has a sweetness from the oranges, and is also gluten free and dairy free. The cake in the photo was made by doubling the recipe and cooked in a 30 cm…

This is my favourite mud cake recipe that I have used many times. The recipe can easily be doubled to make a larger cake. The recipe is taken from a book printed in the mid 1990s – Baking (the good taste collection) by Anneka Manning. Ingredients for cake 200 g butter 200 g good quality…

This cake is one of the team’s all-time favourite cakes and one I make for team meetings every February when plums and apricots are in abundance. This year is the first year we have had the cake without the Satsuma plums supplied from one of our colleagues; unfortunately he chose another career last year. Any…