A Baking Blog from Melbourne, Australia
A couple of weeks ago before I went to China, I was in front of the camera instead of behind it. It was a totally awkward moment in my life but it was fun none the less. A photographer from the Moreland Leader a local paper in Melbourne came to photograph me for a piece that the editor was doing on my book and I, my 15 mins of fame – you can read it here ;)…
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…
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 :)…
I am an Aunty for the second time ever!!!!!!! How exciting and cool is that, this time to a beautiful little girl, Charlotte. I am so happy for My Big Brother, his beautiful Wife and my little Nephew, who now has a little baby sister. Another little Purvis has joined our family clan 🙂 I wonder what she will grow up to be, to do, I wonder what her loves and likes will be. She was born on Wednesday night, I haven’t seen her yet. I have to get over to New Zealand and check out her cuteness, which I know will be out of this world, just like my Nephew. So Happy Birthday to Charlotte, and welcome to this crazy world.…
