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24.01.2022 Freshly picked homegrown flowers and dusk pink rose buttercream. A marriage made in heaven.
23.01.2022 Who else has started soaking their fruit in buckets of brandy!? Christmas is COMING! It’s my favourite time of year. I’m not going to lie. And in Australia we are particularly lucky because we can make all the traditional northern hemisphere bakes AND all our traditional Christmas summer bakes incorporating the abundance of fresh fruit and veg that Christmas and early summer brings. Granted, having the oven on for nearly a month solid when the temperature is generally well over 30 is not my favourite part! Who, like me, is planning for Christmas already?! I have a list as long as my leg of bakes I want to do this year!
23.01.2022 < vanilla, raspberry & rose > A delicate vanilla sponge filled with homemade raspberry compote and all wrapped up in a rose swiss meringue buttercream. A pretty cake for an ugly Monday. Did anyone else have really bad luck today?! I got interrupted by phone calls all morning; a picture fell off the wall (sending glass EVERYWHERE and ruining one of my precious @aliceoehr prints); my quick writing break, lunch catch-up was thwarted by two toasted sandwiches that took 45 MIN...UTES to arrive; my sourdough stuck to its proving basket and was consequently ruined (goodbye 36 hours of work); and now the car won’t start!!!! Is some moon or planet retrograding!? What is going on!? I’m terrified to go out to dinner tonight - who knows what might happen!? Sorry for the whinge-rant but Monday 10th September 2018, I hate you. See more
23.01.2022 It’s 8am on Wednesday morning and I’ve already taken 3 photos of brick walls. Is my subconscious not so subtlety telling me something?! It’s gonna be a long day. The transcendental felafel by @shukiandlouisa at the Melbourne Uni @melbournefarmersmarkets that I’ll be having for lunch is the only thing keeping me going!
22.01.2022 < lemon, poppy seed & rosemary cake > Rosemary is one of my favourite smells and flavours. I adore a herb that can be used in a sweet or savoury recipe. And all the rosemary about me is blooming in a spring haze of glorious purple. This cake, topped with a wonky climbing rose I foraged from between some overgrown thistles down the lane, and those beautiful rosemary flowers smells zingy and fresh - just like spring should!
20.01.2022 A weekend at the snow was exactly what I needed. Fresh air, sun, hail, snow, mountains and lots and lots and lots of skiing is the best kind of break there is. The snow is still amazing for mid-September and the drive from the top of Falls Creek down to Mount Beauty in the twilight last night was magical. An immense cathedral of glorious yellow wattle all the way down. Apologies to the cars following me - I was a very distracted driver! The post weekend depression is real today.
18.01.2022 < October’s Cake > The trials and tastings continue ahead of the release of my first monthly recipe in October. I’m so excited to start sharing some of my own bakes. My plans and dreams are huge but reality and the time constraints of real life (the worst) mean I have to purposely and regularly tell myself to keep things at Kelmscott small and to focus on my PhD. Writing first, cake second. Who else gets frustrated by the fact that they can’t be a creative full time!? ... What do you do when the creative urge is taking over but real life (work, family, kids - whatever your commitments may be) mean you can’t let it? See more
10.01.2022 < carrot, pistachio & date cake with cream cheese frosting > A special birthday cake for my second mum. A woman who taught me the power food and cooking has to bring a family and community together and showed me that there isn’t a stronger force in this world than love. Happy birthday Abda.
10.01.2022 Thank you all for your kind responses to my Monday tantrum. I wish I could give you all a bunch of this heavenly scented lilac in return. It comes from two HUGE lilac plants at my Mum’s work that are, very sadly, destined for the chop to make way for some ugly new monster building. Such a pity. But I have survived today with no major disasters! So here’s hoping my bad luck has come to an end. I hope it hasn’t just moved on to someone else! Are you all ok?
09.01.2022 < malted wattle seed cake with honey cream cheese icing & salted white chocolate crumbs > I’m so excited to share my recipe for October! The first in my monthly recipe series. Featuring wattle seed and malt extract this cake is an Aussie banger! Paying homage to a native ingredient that has been used in baking for more than 40,000 years (!) this cake explores my love of Australiana (wattle and wombats are my favourite things) and also a bit of Australian baking history.... The link to the recipe is in my profile and throughout the month I’ll be sharing more info on the ingredients, alternate baking ideas (mini cakes!) and decorating tips. As well as some fun Australiana facts (jokes maybe). I’d love to hear what you think. See more
07.01.2022 < chocolate and chocolate and chocolate cake > Three flavours that work really well together! Over the years I have narrowed my favourite chocolate to bake with down to four brands: Callebaut (@callebautoz), Valrhona (@valrhona_south_east_asia), Green & Black’s (@greenandblacks) and Hunted+Gathered (@huntedandgathered). All use sustainable and fair-trade methods of production. Green & Black’s and Hunted+Gathered use organic ingredients and Callebaut and Valrhona have an or...ganic range. While three of the four are from overseas (the food miles are horrific, I know), @huntedandgathered is made right here in Melbourne and it is BOMB. Not only do I eat it for dessert nearly overnight it is also my top baking pick. It contains no nasties and for those with restricted dietary requirements it is also soy, dairy and gluten free. This lack of additives is SO important when baking with chocolate, especially when tempering or making ganache, fillings or icing. I found that all those weird ingredients with numbers after them are what cause things to go awry; for chocolate to split, curdle or dry up into a crazy, weird gravel like substance (yes that happened!). Also if I’m making a cake that is all about chocolate I want that chocolate to be damn good! If the chocolate is crap before you bake with it, the end result will be crap too. Cooking or baking isn’t going to improve or hide bad chocolate, quite the opposite in fact. So, don’t even think about touching that cooking chocolate poison! p.s. this isn’t sponsored (LOL, I wish!) Just an honest share from a chocolate obsessive. See more
07.01.2022 I’m so enraged and distressed by what is happening with the strawberry crisis in Australia at the moment. I can’t even begin to understand who, how or why! Strawberry farming is a labour intense, expensive and precarious business. Much is done by hand and it is bloody hard work. Now the actions of some seriously questionable human beings have seen millions of dollars of strawberries being dumped into the ground before they even leave the farm gates. As if farmers don’t face ...enough with the weather, markets and crushing grip of the supermarket duopoly!? The actions of a few absolute idiots has curtailed access to many people’s favourite fruit, and such a glorious fruit it is too, and endangered the livelihoods of many farmers and their families. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to help?! I’m buying up big in my local green grocers, organic shops and at markets but I’d like to do more. How can I? See more
07.01.2022 I grew them! Tulips and daphne are currently stealing the show in my front garden. What’s popping up for spring in yours?
05.01.2022 A ring of pretty posies on top of a two tier, six layer classic chocolate and vanilla cake. Bring on the tall cakes and short week! We should have a public holiday every week!
04.01.2022 A posie of freshly foraged flowers from an hour rambling in the Spring sunshine with Dan the Dog and three HEAVENLY cakes from @tamsinstablecakeshop. What a birthday afternoon tea! I had a lovely getaway to Gippsland for the night last night with a friend for our birthdays. We ate a gorgeous lunch in Loch at @oliveatloch, browsed antiques, went for a little walk, dreamt about buying the old Loch pub and Korumburra Post Office and had whiskies by the fire in the sweetest lit...tle country bungalow. [If you need an AirBnB recommendation for down that way PM me, this place was a super find; a modern, minimalist, light filled space with views over the rolling hills of South Gippsland, rescue chooks and cows and a beautiful orchard and garden.] This morning we had breakfast at @theboroughdeptstore in Korumburra. I have been dying to get there since it opened earlier this year and it was EVERYTHING. The space, the food, the coffee, the people, the light, the energy and - most importantly - Tamsin’s cake, was just beautiful. It was an extra special treat to meet Tamsin, icing and decorating her cakes with freshly picked blooms. A couple of us lil Insta peeps (@sallyfrawley and @amy_minichiello_) are thinking of take a day trip down to @theboroughdeptstore for lunch and a visit to the Farmer’s Market hosted there every Friday. We were thinking October. Are you keen to join us?! I’ve never done an Insta meet-up before so don’t worry, I’ll be the most shy and awkward! See more
04.01.2022 As the weather warms up the hellebores are starting to retreat. If I was a flower I think I’d be a hellebore! I shrink from the sun and I don’t last long once picked and put in a vase. This homegrown bunch contains such an array of colours and patterns. They work well in this old vase of my Grandmothers that, because of its odd but amazing colour, can sometimes be difficult to pair with the right flowers. Happy weekend all.
03.01.2022 More fresh flowers and pale rose buttercream - always Swiss Meringue. Sometimes I love using flowers that have an image problem, so to speak. Poor retro Carnations, the ultimate supermarket/convenience store flower, definitely do. But like Baby’s Breath and Geraniums I’m coming round to them and in fact falling starting to fall in love with them. Look at these lovelies! Most definitely not from a supermarket (!), they show that carnations can be so much more than the flow...ers beside the bed in a hospital scene in an early nineties day time movie! What non trendy flowers would you like to see given an epic @hattiemolloy style image makeover? Hattie, @hattiemolloy, one of my biggest Instagram crushes, is the creator of the most perfectly beautiful floral installations you’ll ever see! Pure magic and endlessly inspiring. See more
03.01.2022 I meant to post this earlier in the day as a follow on from my carnation cake pic but the day got away from me! Anyway, this is the sort of magical art that @hattiemolloy makes with flowers! Jaw dropping right?! And that honeycomb vase! Made in a collab with @honey_fingers - I’m dying. This city is full of so many talented humans!
02.01.2022 < October’s Cake > All shall be revealed tomorrow......
01.01.2022 I collected all these little purple beauties on this afternoon’s walk with Dan the Dog around the neighbourhood. Dan is nearly 12 and with all her black Labrador fur she struggles with the warm weather (I’m starting to worry a bit about the summer) so we took it extra slow in the sunshine today. Tottering about, listening to the lovely @gillianbellcake and @annabellehickson ’s podcast @dispatchtoafriend, I was struck by just how many purple flowers are blooming at the moment. Purple was my favourite colour when I was in grade four and I was a member of the exclusive, four person, Purple Pen Club. Subsequently, I’ve kind of grown out of the colour, and would never pick or wear anything purple. Or so I thought until I came home with a posy of purple flowers this afternoon! What are your thoughts on the colour purple (pun intended)?!
