baking

Pinky blue 17

Pinky blue

Holy smokes! Not sure if this actually deserves and entire blog post dedicated to it, but look at the colours of these berries and flowers. I do like a little turquoise on pink action....

Pretzels 5

Pretzels

“Meet the teacher day” means kids home in the middle of the week. It means other kids hanging out here too and lots of hungry people. For entertainment value and for a fool-proof stomach...

Bread! 14

Bread!

For the first time in – I can’t even remember – years? I got up this morning and felt like making bread. I used to make bread a lot – around the time Lily...

Rock buns and colouring in 13

Rock buns and colouring in

I can tell Winter is here because I am spending time looking at beach-holiday destinations and imagining how nice it would be to lie on the warm sand. Hmm. Byron Bay looks nice in...

How I made hot cross buns 6

How I made hot cross buns

My annual hot cross bun making event went with the usual amount of drama today. Broken machinery, small child tantrums, expired ingredients, miss-timed everything. It could have gone a lot worse, as I was...

Cake Sabotage 43

Cake Sabotage

Ahhhahaha!! Let me say that again; AHAHAHHHHAHAHAH! That’s ten years of pent-up baking angst. We have had an ongoing cake drama, my mum and I – well actually, mostly just me. It’s been going...

Hot Buns 13

Hot Buns

Hello people from google who have come here searching on dodgey search terms. Welcome to a blog post about baking! I made these same buns two years ago from Delia’s recipe and apart from...