This fabulous Orange Almond Cake with Olive Oil and a Spiced Syrup is an updated variation of the popular recipe for Tokara’s Orange Polenta Cake I posted a few years back. For the new recipe I still pureed two whole…
For the life of me I can not remember where I saw these Flourless Almond Butter Cookies from Heartbeet Kitchen but I was immediately drawn to the idea of baking with almond butter and bonus that the recipe had very few…
This delicious Boozy Festive Frangipane looks rather homely and innocent but is rich, decadent, so comforting and is my modern take on the usual fruited Xmas pudding. It has a layer of rich almond frangipane, topped with fruit that were…
This post about How to make Almond Milk comes from one of my favourite shoots of the year. It was one of those “play date” shoots I have with my friend and regular collaborator Caro de Waal where we worked…
This Olive Oil Polenta Cake came to being after I was asked by Olive Central to develop a recipe using South African Olive Oil. A request I gladly accepted. Olive Central is a portal that connects consumers to the South…
Yes, it is one month before Christmas and though I am hardly traditional when it comes to this time of the year I can not go through December (and November and January for that matter) without fruit cake. It has…
I only discovered baking with yoghurt a short while back and love the results you get. I was not planning to do another recipe so soon again after the Lemon Yoghurt Cake, but this recipe for an Apple Yoghurt Cake…
This Lemon Rictotta Cake is one of the most popular recipes on the blog and it is such a lovely recipe. Citrus and almonds are one of my favourite baking combinations. Add ricotta to the mix and I am sold…
My chipotle in adobo sauce obsession has met chocolate. And cake. And even without the chipotle I do think this flourless chocolate cake is pretty fantastic, chocolaty rich but not overly sweet. The chillies just add a gentle zing to…
These Clementine Almond Cakes are just divine. The cakes are tender and moist with a punch of citrus from the clementines. I used a recipe from David Lebovitz for the batter and syrup, replacing the oranges with clementines and…