I’m not a big chocolate person so I can’t really judge how good a chocolate cake is. But that being said, I do quite like this flourless chocolate cake from the Bourke Street Bakery cookbook with berries and cream. I brought one for dessert to my friend Ian’s house when he cooked us a truly [...]

I love reading Japanese cookbooks! It’s usually much cheaper when they’ve been translated into Chinese, and at least I know just enough Mandarin to get by- ie I can read the ingredient list (sometimes with the help of my mum haha). And the great thing about these books are they usually focus on easy yet [...]

This is one of my favourite cakes! A really dark, moist, fluffy sponge topped with lots of peanut butter cream cheese frosting. Yum. This chocolate cake recipe really is the best ever. I use it everytime I need a chocolate cake, and it never fails. So, so soft and moist yet really light at the [...]

The idea for this super chocolatey dessert came from a Chinese cookbook translated from a Japanese cookbook.. and I don’t even understand both languages! It’s a chocolate choux puff with a chocolate biscuit crust filled with very, very dark chocolate pastry cream. I (barely) translated the ingredient list then looked at pictures to figure out [...]

I’ve been reading quite a lot of Japanese recipe websites, blogs and books lately, and have been obsessed with their perfect pastries and cakes. They always look like how they should! I’ve come to realise that they are very fond of making sablés, a French biscuit which are sandy and light and melts in your [...]