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Due to the abundance of oranges in our house an orange cake seemed like the perfect option this week.Filled with Vitamin C it must be healthy…..right? Or does the sugar and butter cancel that out, I hope not!! RECIPE –…

Well my baking challenge is starting to pay off. I have just made my very first chocolate cake that doesn’t have a great sink hole in the middle of it that I have to disguise with extra icing. I am…

Happy July everyone! Jack Frost has been very busy at our place this week – frozen pipes, no water, and burst pipes to troughs in the paddocks. One problem after another….My husband is the best!! Today, instead of getting frustrated…

Well it’s been five weeks since we got back from Thailand and the tan has well and truly faded. Winter has hit us hard this week with a real cold snap and I’m wishing I was back in the sunshine…

What kind of cake could warm you up on a cold morning more than a Chilli Chocolate Cake. We bought a Chilli plant last week and it inspired me to search for a cake recipe that used chillis. I’m a…

We counted down to our holiday in Phuket for weeks, okay maybe it was months, but here we are, home again and it’s all just a distant memory. But what a great memory it is to store away. We holidayed…

Well here we are again….Baking Day. This week has just sped by and I’ve had to leave the housework today in favour of baking cake number three. For those of you new to my blog, I have set myself a…

On with the cake baking challenge…with loads of support from my family.This week’s cake is a Carrot Cake, sprinkled with pumpkin seeds and dried cranberries.No Teacher Only Day today, so a bit short of little helpers in the kitchen. Sure…

This weekend our neighbours hosted a Royal High Tea in honour of the Queen’s birthday. We all dressed up in our finery, put on our poshest accents and played at being royal for the afternoon.Eight good friends and lots of…

Jaime and I were out for a run this afternoon. We ran past this paddock of cattle and they looked so happy munching away on their crop that I couldn’t resist coming right back with my camera. We shifted these…