Tiramisu

Does anyone really need a recipe for tiramisu? Especially at Christmas time...? Well, why not, I say. No baking required, make it anytime one or two days in advance and store in the fridge until needed, good alternative if you're not wanting a traditional dessert like Christmas cake or pudding, easy assembly job rather than …

Mochaccino banana bread (aka Martin cake)

Here is a recipe I make regularly as my office crowd enjoys it. I also like it because it uses up left-over bananas (zero food wastage in my house), no machinery is needed (a potato masher is as complicated as it gets), it's one of the flavour combinations I'm proud to have come up with …

Mochaccino banana bread

Edited on 05/09/2019: a more recent post of this recipe is available here. Tomorrow is Good Friday in New Zealand. Happy Easter, everyone! I bring you a chocolately recipe, made more so with the addition of chocolate chips. Working with a group of coffee aficionados with a chocolate addiction and a seemingly infinite capacity for cake consumption …

Mini mocha cupcakes

In her book, How to be a Domestic Goddess, Nigella gives side by side recipes for Espresso Cupcakes and Cappuccino Cupcakes. Unable to decide which, and not wanting to make both, I went ahead and made a mini hybrid version. Makes 24 mini (or 12 standard) cupcakes. Cupcakes 2 eggs 2 tbs milk 2 tbs …

Banana (and coffee) bread

I don't really like banana cake, or carrot cake for that matter. In general, I don't cook much with bananas, as I don't like how its taste and smell overwhelms everything else... it's not one of my preferred fruits. But banana bread is a newly acquired interest, since tasting a very delicious plateful at Olaf's …