Cakes, Cupcakes

Dead of Night Cupcakes

Prep Time : 15  + 15 Minutes | Cook Time : 20 Minutes | Total Time : 1 hour | Difficulty : Easy Halloween baking is essentially regular baking with lots of make up on. There’s lots of food colouring and fine motor skill involved. How about something simple, seasonally appropriate, requires no piping, no food colouring and tastes like…

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Lemon + Honey Madeleines

 Prep Time : 15 Minutes | Cook Time : 10 Minutes | Total Time : 30 Minutes | Difficulty : Moderate Welcome to spring my lovelies!! It’s a bit grey today but it has been fabulous here lately with sunshine and mild weather and longer days. I felt like I needed something light and lemony and these madeleines totally fit…

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Coconut Cupcakes + Lemon Vanilla Buttercream

 Prep Time : 15 + 15 Minutes | Cook Time : 20 Minutes | Total Time : 1 hour | Difficulty : Easy This is another one of those recipes that has been knocking around forever that I really should share and it’s another one from my Nannie! I love coconut, some others in this household are not so keen…

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Grapefruit + Coconut Teacakes

 Prep Time : 20 Minutes | Cook Time : 20 Minutes | Total Time : 1 hour | Difficulty : Easy These wonderful tender cakes are made from the first NZ grapefruit I could find. Luckily in NZ the different varieties of citrus overlap throughout the year so there is always something delicious to bake with. My parents are visiting…

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Irish Cream Cupcakes

Prep Time : 15 Minutes | Cook Time : 20 Minutes | Total Time : 1 hour | Difficulty : Easy Hello my lovelies! A girl can only go so long before she needs cake and what’s better than cake laced with delicious irish cream? These tender moist cupcakes use one of my favourite methods – adopted from the Hummingbird…

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Pistachio Friands

Prep Time : 30 minutes | Cook Time : 15 minutes | Total Time : 1 hour | Difficulty : Moderate Hello new friends! I was going to start off with something a little more basic and then I made these and had to share them with you. Who can resist pistachios + butter + tiny food that makes you…

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