Dark chocolate Swiss Meringue Frosting


It’s been a while since I made icing for cakes. I didn’t like my old buttercream recipe as it was fiddly and a bit too buttery for my taste. I haven’t tried swiss meringue buttercream and thought it would be interesting to see how it turns out. Three words: WOW. WOW. WOW. Pillowy, soft and…

Chewy fudgey perfect chocolate brownies


After years of trial and error, I’ve finally got a fail proof chocolate brownie that appears to satisfy the fussiest and hardest-to-please of all critics (aka Miss 8). These brownies are fudgey and chewy, just how we like it. Importantly, these produce the smoothest crisply thin layer, flakey, like dried meringue shells. The key is…

Moist Chocolate Feijoa Cake


I’ve been blessed by friends giving me a whole lot of feijoas recently and our kitchen has been churning out lots of dishes with feijoas – feijoa macarons, feijoa jelly and now of course the much awaited chocolate feijoa cake.  I must admit, this was my cunning plot to get J to eat feijoas –…