Granola cookies
Posted on 25. Jan, 2012 by BakeLoveNotWar in Food & Drink
If you’ve ever wondered whether the chocolate chip cookie comes in a healthier version, look no further. These granola cookies are scrumptious snacks with plenty of nutritious ingredients instead of the usual chocolate chips. My test batch disappeared in a couple of hours, so I think it’s safe to say they are at least marginally [...]
The Science Behind Pastry: Sweet Shortcrust Pastry and Peach & Almond Filling
Posted on 11. Jan, 2012 by BakeLoveNotWar in Food & Drink
Flour, butter, water and eggs. These ingredients, mixed in different ways and in different proportions, can produce a myriad of baked goods – bread, doughnuts, scones, eclairs, tart shells, pie shells or croissants… the list goes on and on. Have you ever wondered how the same ingredients produce goods of such diverse texture and shape? [...]
Candy Cane Cookies
Posted on 14. Dec, 2011 by BakeLoveNotWar in Food & Drink
One of my favourite childhood memories is baking Christmas cookies – though I didn’t always stick to Christmas theme and five-year-old me would invariably get distracted and start making giraffes, hippos and Noah’s Ark instead. In any event Christmas baking is still one of my favourite things, especially sugar cookies with pretty decorations. This year [...]
Top 10 baking tools this festive season
Posted on 14. Dec, 2011 by BakeLoveNotWar in Kitchen Gear
The festive season is once more upon us, bringing with it many joys including sunshine, Christmas trees and lots of delicious food. To make sure your festive season baking is a fun-filled and stress free adventure, Iʼve come up with a list of tools that may come in handy. There are a few things for tackling recipes [...]
White Chocolate Buttercream Icing
Posted on 13. Dec, 2011 by BakeLoveNotWar in Food & Drink
Ingredients: 125g butter 4 cups icing sugar 3 tbs milk 100g white chocolate (Cadbury Dream works well) Method: 1. Melt the white chocolate, either on the stove top or in the microwave. Set aside. 2. Cream the butter with an electric mixer until soft. 3. Slowly add two cups of icing sugar, as well as [...]
Cuisipro Cupcake Corer Review & Raspberry White Chocolate Cupcakes
Posted on 13. Dec, 2011 by BakeLoveNotWar in Food & Drink
I absolutely love making cupcakes of all shapes and flavours, so when the team at Spatula asked me to review this Cuisipro toolset I was more than happy to oblige. My cupcakes usually consist of cake plus icing, but with the cupcake corer I was able to add some delicious filled centres to that already winning combination. And [...]
How to make eclairs
Posted on 09. Dec, 2011 by BakeLoveNotWar in Kitchen Gear
If there was a hall of fame for baked goods, the chocolate eclair would certainly have a space in it. This pastry has really stood the test of time, having stuck around for centuries along with some other old time favorites, like the Victoria sandwich cake, lemon meringue pie, scones and chelsea buns. And today it is still [...]
15 Essential baking hints and tips
Posted on 12. Sep, 2011 by Lisa in Food & Drink
Cakebread Pudding & Pie is a book about all things baked and delicious, and the dynamic brother and sister team sure know a thing or two about the art of making pudding, pies and treats. As with their first book, Cakes to Celebrate Love and Life, Callie and Mari-Louis focus almost exclusively on baking so when they [...]
Cake sale beauties: Nanaimo bars
Posted on 12. Sep, 2011 by Lisa in Food & Drink
A few weeks ago, we were lucky enough to spend a sunny morning with the infectiously energetic sibling team, Callie Maritz and Mari-Louis Guy. They’re the authors of the brand new book, Cakebread, Pudding & Pie, and they’re mad about baking which, in the grand scheme of things, is an excellent thing to be mad [...]
Here comes whoopie (pie not Goldberg)
Posted on 06. Sep, 2011 by BakeLoveNotWar in News & Trends
Remember the days before cupcakes adorned the shelves of every boutique bakery? The days before Carrie Bradshaw of Sex and the City fame and the Magnolia Bakery; when a cupcake’s destiny was to be the star attraction at kids’ birthday parties? Yes, it’s difficult to imagine, given the cupcake’s ubiquity worldwide. But, every cake has it’s [...]
