We were asked to make a Guinness cake, in the shape of a wooden keg, it sounded like fun and let us try out new recipes to get it right! In the end we settled on the Nigella Lawson Guinness and chocolate cake, it was rich and flavourful, a definite winner! With the cream cheese [...]

It’s January again, Epiphany has passed and it’s King Cake, sorry, Mardi Gras season. *grins* Though I do tend to think if it more as King Cake season. The end of the season – Mardi Gras day itself is early this year, coming along on February 21st. That still gives you 5 more weeks of [...]

It’s hotter than hell down here in Texas at the moment, making a devil’s food cake more than appropriate. Maybe I can bribe the heat with the cupcakes to go away and not return! Sadly I can’t claim this recipe as my own, I made no changes (excepting making cupcakes rather than one big cake [...]

That time of year that calls for the mass genocide of that little bug called a crawfish is almost at an end. I’m going to leave the boil details to the Southern boy but I couldn’t let the event pass without making a little something. When we were buying king cake babies earlier in the [...]

After fearing the Cottage Food Bill was dead in the House, turns out it’s still gasping for air!  It has actually passed the House, and is in the Senate as bill # SB 81, and has apparently gone round and round a few times already for amendments.  The unfortunate part is that we have less [...]

I’m always a sucker for fresh bread and focaccia is a firm favourite in my book. There’s something about the texture of it that wins me over every time… and when it has the sprinkling of sea salt, and herbs on the top, then it’s amazingly wonderful! Then somebody mentioned garlic focaccia. Garlic… and focaccia… [...]

I always like playing about with macarons, coming up with new flavour combinations. It’s one of the many reasons that they’re so great, they can be so many different flavours. These were a product of two different inspirations, I had a salted caramel macaron from a little cafe in town called La Boite. Secondly, I [...]

Texas House of Representatives Bill #HB2084 (cottage foods, raw milk availability at a wider range of venues, Farmer’s Market support, etc) has been voted out of committee and is on its way to the House to (hopefully) be voted on.  Previously there were two bills supporting a Cottage Food industry in Texas — HB1139 and [...]

These are the cupcakes that went with the Ponyo cake we showed you on Monday, vanilla with a vanilla frosting and sugarpaste figurines. Best of all – they’re completely vegan. I picked up the book Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World a while back, it looked interesting and they had a lot of good looking [...]