Month: December 2013

Gingerbread cupcakes with cinnamon buttercream

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I’m sure you will have noticed the Christmas theme in this month’s posts, and today is no different! Deciding on this week’s recipe was very easy – these last two weeks have been quite a roller coaster, and as the saying goes: “when the going gets tough, the tough eat cake”. Or something to that effect.

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Sugar and spice Christmas pecans

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It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… the tree is up, the presents are wrapped, the Christmas album has been loaded onto the iPod (a necessity) and I have a stash of these in the cupboard – crunchy, candied Christmas pecans!

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Pithivier recipe with puff pastry.

Mushroom and chevin pithivier

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In exactly one week my dearest younger sister will be boarding an airbus and making her way from Old Blighty down to Cape Town. It has been two and a half years since I last saw her and to say that I am excited could be the understatement of the year! The prospect of having the whole family together to celebrate Christmas fills me with glee and over the past few weeks I have been poring over my cookbooks looking for inspiration for the feast I will be preparing for everyone on Christmas Eve.

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