Archive for the ‘Cakes’ Category

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing

Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Icing
Nana’s “World Famous in New Zealand” Carrot Cake! The day I found out my Grandma was gravely ill, I booked a flight back home to New Zealand  to be with her and then went straight into the kitchen to soothe my soul by baking her “World Famous in New Zealand” Carrot Cake...
February 2nd, 2010 | Bakery, Cakes, New Zealand, Recipes | Read More

9 of the Funkiest Chocolate Recipes on the Web

9 of the Funkiest Chocolate Recipes on the Web
Captains log… Stargate 4. The latest installment of this great Chocolate circumnavigation of the globe finds us sweeping through uncharted skies. Chocolate. Funky? ‘You must be kidding me’, you say. Oh, I couldn’t possibly me more excited to share these recipes with you! After...
September 21st, 2009 | Bridgets favorites, Cakes, Chocolate, Foodies, Snacks, Sweets, twitter | Read More

21 Twitalicious Chocolate Cake Recipes You Need To Try

21 Twitalicious Chocolate Cake Recipes You Need To Try
A girl has got to do what a girl’s got to do. The task had been set, the lines had been drawn. It was my job to seek out and search through all the chocolate recipe posts that appeared in my twitter stream and extract the best! And I must say, there were literally hundreds of recipes that opened...
September 9th, 2009 | Cakes, Recipes | Read More

The 3-Minute Wholemeal Chocolate Cake Miracle

The 3-Minute Wholemeal Chocolate Cake Miracle
photo by mao_lini There are a myriad of tangible things one can achieve in 3 minutes. In 3 minutes you could win the Eurovision Song Competition. 3 minutes is all you need to start a dance party like this king of the fandango managed to do at the Sasquatch Music Festival. Take 3 minutes out of your busy...
July 24th, 2009 | Cakes, Chocolate, Dessert, Foodies, Recipes, Uncategorized | Read More

Ultimate Top 30 Healthy Snack Recipe Posts on the Internet

Ultimate Top 30 Healthy Snack Recipe Posts on the Internet
From the depths of one small metal box covered with slender calved pink fairies and wistful looking princesses, I endeavour to supply my culinarily adventurous 7  year old daughter Coco with an  appetizing array of lunch offerings for her to take to school each day. I have discovered that the more...
June 30th, 2009 | Bakery, Bars and Slices, Bento box, Bridgets favorites, Cakes, Chips, Chocolate, Cookies, Crackers, Dehydrator, Fruit, Fruit leather, Granola Bars, Health benefits, Healthy, Muffins, New Zealand, Nuts, Peanut butter, Popcorn, Pulses, Recipes, Side dishes, Snacks, twitter | Read More

Top 25 Recipe Posts on Twitter That You Shouldn’t Be Without

Top 25 Recipe Posts on Twitter That You Shouldn’t Be Without
Once upon a time… I began compiling recipe links that would flitter seductively past me in my twitter stream as I sat doodling and discussing the day’s happenings with friends and fellow foodies. After much clicking and opening, I would downsize  my favourite  selection  to a manageable...
June 22nd, 2009 | Accompaniments, Bakery, Burgers, Cakes, Cheese, Chocolate, Cookies, Dessert, Ice cream, Jam and Preserves, Meat, Pasta, Recipes, Rhubarb, Salad, Side dishes, Sweets, Top 25 recipe posts on Twitter, Uncategorized, Vegetables, twitter | Read More

15 Powerful reasons to eat chocolate

photo by Lisa Brewster 15 Powerful reasons to eat chocolate t’ will make old women young and fresh Create new motions of the flesh And cause them to long for you-know-what When they but taste CHOC-O-LATE William Wordsworth (1770-1850)  British poet Early Central American cultures worshipped and...
April 7th, 2009 | Cakes, Chocolate, Food History, Food Humour, Food quotes, Health benefits, Recipes | Read More