Recipes
Buttercream frosting
Everyone needs a good recipe for buttercream icing.�This classic recipe, which makes about 2 cups, is taken off the�Hershey’s website. Ingredients 6 tablespoons butter or margarine, softened 2-2/3 cups icing sugar 1/2 cup Hershey’s cocoa (which might be available from... Continue reading
Chocolate Ganache Cake
This BBC Good Food chocolate ganache cake recipe comes highly recomended by Trisha Shaila, who says she uses it for all occasions and reccomends Yuppiechefs give it a spin. Here it is below: Ingredients: for the cake 200g dark chocolate,... Continue reading
We heart Nicoletta
Some argue that the sole purpose of baking is the eating – but we reckon there is a strong case for the decorating process being the thing that gets the pulse of bakers racing the world over. Agree? Overseas, the... Continue reading
Coca Cola + Chocolate + Cake
Been waiting your whole life to find a legitimate way to consume coke and chocolate cake at exactly the same time? Feel it. It is here. The hunt for the best from scratch chocolate cake recipes continues, and Gabrielle Fluxman sent... Continue reading
Chocolate Mousse Cake
Nina Tim, of My Easy Cooking sent us this chocolate cake recipe, a mousse cake, another great submission in the hunt for the greatest chocolate cake recipes. She knows a thing or two about cooking and baking, and we love that... Continue reading
Chocolate Yoghurt Cake
We’re on the hunt for from scratch chocolate cake recipes, and Tara Booth sent this to us. We reckon it sounds like a winner, give it a spin and let us know what you think. Ingredients (makes about 18 small... Continue reading
Hunt for the best chocolate cake recipe
We are on the hunt. Not for lions, not for jellybeans (this time) – for the best from scratch chocolate cake recipe. Think you’ve got it? Post it here, on our Facebook page or email it to us on [email protected]. Spatulas... Continue reading
How to make pizza
Picture a bustling kitchen, guests gathered around the table with flour dusted faces, bowls of chopped ingredients, good wine, unending amounts of cheese being grated and the wonderful smell of fresh, homemade yeasty dough… Making pizza from scratch is a... Continue reading
Beer Box Chocolate Cake
Many South African homes have a cardboard beer box lying around. But, we bet you never thought of making a cake in it. Bridget McNulty pulled off this rather lovely beer box cake for her brother’s birthday last weekend, with... Continue reading
How to make a perfect pancake
Bridget McNulty recently became the proud owner of a 20cm Swiss Diamond pan, and reckons she’s found the way to make a perfect pancake (and you always thought it was about the recipe). “Be warned! Once you’ve cooked using a Swiss... Continue reading