Hi. I’ve made a few new recipe categories for this site: No wheat flour – Not necessarily gluten-free, as for this recipe. Sweet baking recipes that require wheat flour for structure. No yeast – Baking recipes that don’t require any yeast, which is most of them. No egg – I focused on baking recipes that […]
Category: Baking
Cardamom biscuits
Round little cookies that are comfortingly spiced and very easy to eat. As a bonus, they’re very quick and easy to put together! I had some chickpea flour from making MiMi Aye’s Burmese tofu–absolutely delicious and so easy, please get her book and try it–so I went from one cookbook to another as I returned […]
Traditional Thai meringue cupcakes khanom muscat (muskot) ขนมมัศกอด
Sweet little egg-foam sponge cakes with meringue topping. Very light and delicate! Comes together quickly and is super easy to eat. This dessert seems familiar and modern, perhaps a homespun version of fancy Japanese patisserie, but it’s a centuries-old treat: muskot are referenced in a Thai court poem from the first quarter of the 19th […]
Parkin (oatmeal gingerbread)
Gingerbread made from oatmeal, treacle, golden syrup, and dark brown sugar, spiced with ground ginger and nutmeg. I like the idea of bonfire night, and enjoy thinking of all manner of things to be eaten out of hand before this extremely pagan ritual, but I haven’t actually been out to a see any fireworks for […]
German chocolate jimbo cake
Well, here we are. A tall cake, full of flavour and texture: there’s chocolate cake, a coconut filling that is better than a Bounty bar, salty-sweet pecan-feuilletine crunch, and mellow Ovaltine frosting. Each layer is delicious on its own but makes the most sense together. It’s a lot of work and I’m very proud of […]