For the love of food
We have this little tradition in my family of ‘cocktail hour.’ It’s not your traditional round of martinis but every night at around 6pm we have a drink and a few chips. My most favourite combination is tasty cheese CCs and a diet coke or as I like to call it CCs and DC. I [...]
Thank you everyone for my lovely Birthday messages yesterday. I had a fabulous day. Being the food-obsessed girl that I am, of course it involved a lot of eating. I thought I’d give you a little peek into my day. Looking back I’m really not sure how I fitted it all in but oh how [...]
Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday to me, Happy Birthday dear me, Happy Birthday to me! That’s right, on top of all the wedding celebrations going on around here today is my 27th Birthday. Ugh, writing 27 I still can’t believe that’s what goes in the box next to my age but it’s true. 27 [...]
Call me crazy but I really love hosting parties from a little intimate dinner to a 20-30 people baby shower. As long as I’m organised, I’m pretty good at staying stress free and pulling it off smoothly. It’s when I’m without a plan that I tend to break down in a stress heap that involves [...]
A few months ago I wrote about my friend Sarah’s announcement that she is pregnant with twins! She is looking so fantastic and we’re all exploding with excitement (yes this year is a seriously exciting one) to meet her two little girls. Last Saturday, I hosted a pretty-in-pink baby shower for the mother-to-be. The day [...]
A few months ago mum and I took a weekend away in Sydney to spend a wedding weekend with my bridesmaid Kristin. We had a lovely weekend talking weddings and girly things and a little bit too much eating. It was on this trip that I had my first meal at Bills. I’d been wanting [...]
As you probably read, yesterday it was my dad’s 60th Birthday. We took him out to dinner to celebrate and of course I jumped at the chance to make the Birthday cake as I always do. Dad is a big lover of all things mint (I seem to have been passed that addiction too) so [...]
Today is my darling dad’s 60th Birthday. This photo was taken on the family 60th Birthday trip to Fiji back in July. The festivities are starting tonight with dinner at my favourite Italian restaurant Viale Cannova followed by a weekend away at Sunshine Beach. Have a wonderful Birthday Dad and I’m looking forward to celebrating [...]
I wasn’t the only cake baker at my friend’s Birthday last week. One very very clever guest whipped up this woopie pie cake tower. I’ve made woopie pies once before but never seen them in a tower. Doesn’t it look spectacular?! She made a cardboard cone in the middle and built them up around it [...]
Today is my friend’s Birthday and of course I jumped at the chance to make her Birthday cake. This cake was inspired by one I saw at Sodapop Design a little while ago. I made a chocolate mudcake and covered it in white buttercream icing. I then, very gently pressed sponge finger biscuits (you can [...]
When I was little, my friend’s mum used to make the most delicious chocolate cake. It was a Betty Crocker packet mix. I’m usually not a fan of packet mixes. They always seem to have a bit of a strange aftertaste that home-baked never does. Betty Crocker devil’s food cake however is the exception to [...]
There seems to be a bit of a trend at the moment towards putting things on sticks. Cake Pops, lolly-pop like cakes are ‘popping’ up everywhere and so I decided to jump on board with a cookie on a stick. They’re so much more fun to eat than a regular cookie and make a great [...]
