It gives me great pleasure to let you all know that my book, A Piece of Cake has taken out the third place for the best Pastry book in the world at the Gourmand World Cookbook award held last night in Yantai, China. How Cool is that!! Not a bad spot for my first ever cookbook running against pastry books from all over the world, including france the home of pastries. The Gourmand Cook Book Awards are considered the Oscars of the Book World and I have been fortunate to be able to come to China to attend to represent my country of Birth the land of the long white cloud, Aotearoa, New Zealand. As you all probably know if you have been following my blog for a while, my book took out the Best Pastry Cookbook in New Zealand, which allowed me the great honour to be able to come to the awards. If you haven’t already got a copy of my book you can get your hands on one here…
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Brown Sugar Scones
Happy Mother’s Day to all the Mums out there for this coming Sunday. Do you have something nice planned for her? We if not you better hop to it, you can grab her a copy of my book from here. Or you could whip her up a batch of these mini brown sugar scones. I love mini scones, they look so cute sitting on the plate and the extra bonus is you can nearly fit a whole one straight into your mouth all at once, no being a lady here :)…
Lemon Curd Tarts with a Raspberry Surprise
Hello My Dear Readers,
Today I am bringing you some lemon curd and raspberry tarts. I made these as one of my Christmas orders for a client I shoot photos for. They were having a Christmas morning tea and asked if I would bake something for it, and this is one of the things I baked. I wanted to do some little finger food style cakes, there is nothing as cute as little food is there? So I went with these tarts, some caramel and chocolate tarts and of course some brownies 🙂 It wouldn’t be complete with out the brownies now would it?…
Gingerbread Men
To My Dear Readers,
Wishing you a very Merry Christmas, I hope you are having a wonderful day with family and friends. I hope you have all eaten far to much and enjoyed some great Christmas food. We have just finished our lunch and are all having a bit of a rest before hitting the desserts. So I thought I would post this while I had a chance….