I’m sorry for doing this to you. Except I’m not. One should never apologize for cheesecake. Especially not for this cheesecake. Because this one here, is a pre-Christmas miracle. There is coffee, a lot of it, chocolate, a lot of it, cream cheese, a lot of it, and then because there’s always room for improvement,…
Cakes & Brownies
Ricotta Cake with Chunky Blueberry Sauce
This post is about the little things. Appreciating them, respecting them, falling in love with them. Little things like a tiny bit of a innocent lemon zest that can take a basic cake to another realm. Little things like tangy blueberries suddenly turning a regular old loaf cake into something that calls for a smug…
Coconut and Lemongrass Cake
I don’t flip through cookbooks. I pore over them. I make mental notes, stick Post-Its, read them like there’s a miraculous fourth book in the Millenium trilogy. With the humongous collection of recipes available online, blogs to gape at and cooking-related discussion groups of all kinds, it seems like there’s actually no need for cookbooks…
Whole Wheat Orange Poppy Seed Loaf
It is amazing the lengths I will go to convince myself that cake is healthy. I told myself I could eat this for breakfast, was delighted by how guilt-less this was, and was convinced that no sugar meant no bad stuff. Take this loaf for instance. It’s got olive oil and whole wheat flour so…
Guilt-Free Blueberry Pancakes (Eggless, Sugar-Free)
They say if you fail, try and try till you succeed. In my life so far, this motto has not applied to algebra, chocolate abstinence or sensible shopping. But it has applied to pancakes. When I first tried these pancakes, I struggled to think of a name for the disaster that ensued. The batter was…