Category Archives: *Sweets / Baking

Cookbook Review: The Great Australian Bake Off

July 5, 2013 – 10:55 am

My rating: 5 stars

EMBRACE CARBS!! – The best baking book I’ve ever seen!


The Great Australian Bake-off Note that this book review was written BEFORE the tv show aired.

Chocolate Mud Cake

Chocolate Mud Cake

 

 

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Cookbook Review: PS desserts by Philippa Sibley

November 30, 2011 – 8:45 pm

My rating: 4 ½ stars

 

This is a book for serious dessert lovers, budding pastry chefs and domestic cooks ready for training from a generous and kindly master.

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Cookbook Review: Momofuku Milk Bar by Christina Tosi, foreward by David Chang

November 25, 2011 – 4:38 pm

My rating: 5 stars

Warning: This book yielded the most addictive cookies I’ve made in my life.

This book is urbane, sexy, cool, witty and fun. The recipes are whimsical, clever and completely “makeable”. I love everything about this book!

 

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Cookbook Review: frankie magazine sweet treats

June 13, 2011 – 9:36 pm

My rating: 4 1/2 stars

As a youngster in a migrant family, primary school fetes were completely foreign to me. Other kid’s parents made honey joys, toffees, rumballs, and fairy cakes. My parents sent me in with a packet of Marie biscuits. : (

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Cookbook Review: Making Whoopies: The Official Whoopie Pie Book

March 14, 2011 – 12:40 pm

My rating: 2 1/2 stars for the book 4 stars for the actual pie!

I’ve heard lots of noise about Whoopie pies. Hey they were even on The View and have been billed as the next big thing since cupcakes by the NY Times. So what are these “pies”? Well, they aren’t the tarts that Americans traditionally label as “pies”. Rather they are muffin tops sandwiched together by some kind of nuclear white cream.

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