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No-Bake Cheese Cake with Pears

My Favourite Cakes I love Cheese Cakes but the process of mixing, baking, letting them cool down slowly, in the oven, for several hours can sometimes take up too much time and energy so I decided to...

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Olive Pepperoni Bread

My Favourite Breads Everybody seems to love extra virgin olive oil for cooking, salads and even baking. The oil comes from the species Olea europaea, which has hundreds of cultivars. The cultivars may...

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Chocolate Swirl Pumpkin Bread

My Favourite Breads Since the pumpkin season began, I’ve been cooking the various pumpkins and squashes and adding pure pumpkin puree to almost everything I cook. Yesterday we had mashed potatoes and...

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Chocolate Ginger Pumpkin Muffins

My Favourite Muffins I hope you’re enjoying the pumpkin season the way I am. I’ve been trying lots of different recipes, except sometimes I don’t find time to photograph and post them. What is your...

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Pumpkin Carrot Cake with Sultanas and Walnuts

My Favourite Cakes Happy Halloween everybody! How many of you are going to a party tonight? I have just finished packing the candy for “trick or treating” I hate having candy around me, coz you’ve...

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Crunchy Apricot Ginger and Cherry Cake

My Favourite Cakes Today is one of the best days we’ve had in weeks. The sun is shining right up to my toes, and I am sitting indoors. It’s insanely beautiful and warming. If you live in the tropics,...

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Chocolate Banana Cake

My Favourite Cakes Can you imagine we are already in December? The days seem to be flying so fast, If only I would catch them or tell them to wait, for me. I am trying to clear all the 2014 blog posts...

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Blueberry Banana Bread

My Favourites Breads Belated New Year greetings to all my friends, from wherever you are. I hope you are having a great February. Ours here is cold and snowy but great for taking long walks in the...

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Lemon Poppy Seed Cake with Blueberries

My Favourite Cakes I love cooking with poppy seeds. They are an oil seed harvested from the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum). Poppy seeds are used, whole or ground, as an ingredient in many foods, and...

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Coconut Raspberry Cake

 My Favourite Cakes I made this cake some time last year during the raspberry season. We had just had a lovely raspberry salad the previous day and delicious raspberry smoothie for breakfast....

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Chocolate Marsala Cake 

My Favourite Cakes If you don’t know me then perhaps a caution that I’m a bit on the lazy side…I don’t like to expend energy if I can help it. I totally love the recipes that say ” place all...

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No-Bake Cheese Cake with Strawberries

My Favourite Cakes This is a very simple cheese cake that requires no baking at all. You do need to add some gelatine to help the cake set in the fridge for about 3-4 hours. It’s best left overnight...

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Sultana and Strawberry Cheese Cake

My Favourite Cakes This is one of the first cakes I ever made when I started blogging in 2013. During those days, I used to  take a minimum of 60 photos, then I would wade through the whole batch and...

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Dundee Cake

My Favourite Cakes Fruitcakes are one of those foods you either hate or love with a passion. Fortunately for me, I adore them. My kids also adore them, with a passion. I always plan to make my fruit...

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Madeira Cake

With Lime and Buttermilk Madeira, is the first cake I ever baked, many years ago, when I started baking. I used to bake it at least once a week. It’s traditionally flavoured with lemon but I’ve always...

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Moist Apple and Spice Cake

My Favourite Cakes We had this moist apple cake for dessert, a few days ago. It’s made from a mixture wholemeal and white flour, and filled with freshly made apple filling. It tasted so good, I...

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Traditional Pound Cake

My Favourite Cakes The pound cake is a rich buttery cake that’s traditionally made with a pound each of butter, sugar, eggs, and flour. Pound cakes are generally baked in a loaf pan or a Bundt mold,...

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Chocolate Chip Orange Cake

With Orange Syrup This is one of the best cakes I’ve eaten since the year begun. Once, ready, the hot cake is drizzled with lots of homemade orange syrup and then set aside to cool, slightly....

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Chocolate Swirl Pound Cake

My Favourite Cakes There are several things you can do with the basic pound cake. In this version, I melted chocolate and swirled it in, before spooning the batter into the pan to bake. Who doesn’t...

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Moist Chocolate and Walnut Cake

My Favourite Cakes Oh yes I do like chocolate in all forms and tend to add it to almost every cake I make if there is the slightest of chance. This cake was very moist, and soft, with the crunch of the...

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