Chocolate swirl buns
Here is a glorious recipe I have been wanting to share with you all for a while. I am about to head off on a little 24 hour plane jaunt to London for the next week so figured I’d make this my send-off recipe. I made it for the brunch party I made all the … Continue reading
Chocolate crackle cookies
Because you can never have too many cookie recipes, here’s another one for the collection. I typically think of these as a Christmas sort of cookie, but I’d had the recipe bookmarked for a while and one day when I was craving chocolate (yes, stress baking for me typically results in chocolate) I thought these … Continue reading
Urban chic at Brisbane’s Public
Seeing as I’ve been traveling to Brisbane for the past six weeks, I thought it only fair to pay a bit of a tribute to Brissie’s restaurant scene in a few posts. I won’t pretend that I don’t think Brisbane is inferior to Sydney (it’s ok, most cities are), but there are definitely some hidden … Continue reading
Chocolate and salted caramel macarons
Macarons: one of the ultimate pastry rite of passages. I have never actually tried making them before but I am constantly looking at recipes of them (and paying absurd amounts to eat them from specialty bakeries) so finally decided to give it a go a few months ago. Imagine my shock and horror when something … Continue reading
Broccoli parmesan fritters
Ok all, I finally have a savoury recipe to share with you. I know it’s been a while. When I’m in a time crunch I typically go to my old favourites such as simple quinoa and roasted vegetables or brown rice stirfrys, so I haven’t actually tried making anything totally new and savoury in my … Continue reading
Lemon and blueberry muffins
Recently, I decided I wasn’t busy enough so I hosted a brunch party for eight people. (To be fair, I’d planned it before my life randomly got crazy.) I chose a collection of varied recipes that I’d been gathering for ages and naturally made them all between the hours of midnight and 11 am the … Continue reading
Salted chocolate truffle cookies
So, the Merri stress train continues with travel, more travel, work, and business school apps…which of course results in a lot of midnight baking. Last week, one of my absolute favourite people in the office sadly had to leave us to go back to her home office of London. Obviously I needed to bake for … Continue reading
Spectacular dining at Sepia
To continue my fine dining tour of Sydney, I went to Sepia just a few weeks after Momofuku. I barely traveled in June/July which of course meant I could spend on a meal what I would normally spend on a plane ticket. (Absurd I know, but that is the fine dining scene in Sydney…and many … Continue reading
Brown butter pretzel M&M cookies
These cookies fall into a particular kind of category for me: stress baking / eating. I made baked goods like this much more often when I lived in Boston, but recently I have been feeling pulled in enough directions with a travel case, orchestra rehearsals, volunteering, business school applications, and additional travel for fun that … Continue reading
Dark and delightful chocolate orange cookies
This, my friends, is the epitome of sophisitication in a cookie. And I won’t lie to you – it is probably the most complicated and time-intensive cookie recipe on this blog to date. But if you break it down into steps that you do on different days, it doesn’t seem that time-consuming, and the end … Continue reading
Yours truly
Passionate amateur baker and devotee of exploring the world through food
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