ANZAC Baking

Anyone who loves to bake will know what I mean when I say "I love my perfectly clean oven!".  It took a fair bit of elbow grease though to scrub it to sparkling!  We watched the ANZAC day commemoration ceremonies on TV while I cleaned the oven... so I could bake a big batch of ANZAC biscuits in a pristine oven!  They turned out beautifully and we had them with a cup of tea as we watched the rest of the ceremonies... the speeches and music were so moving... 

Pink Cupcake

Latest cupcake concoction... it was to have red buttercream icing with white chocolate shavings.  Has anyone tried to make serious red icing?  It's almost impossible to get it to a pillar box red!  I gave up at hot pink!  The chocolate cake was the perfect texture though...

Cherry Season + Panna Cotta

I'm always a little sad when the cherry season comes to an end here.  I love their flavour and colour but the weather in Brisbane means that cherries don't last very long before they start to deteriorate.  My parents gave us a batch of them earlier this year, more than we could eat quick enough so I decided to make cherry compote with the rest of them.  The flavour of the compote is just beautiful, especially over some greek yoghurt for breakfast.  I made clove panna cotta with the compote and also served it with some Dello Mano brownies Ruen gave us, yum!