Jaffa Choc cupcakes with Jaffa buttercream

These little Jaffa delights turned out brilliantly. Ta da!




Jaffa Choccie Goodness

Oat cookies and track pants

This week has seen an incredible effort on my part to go to the gym everyday. I’m proud (if somewhat knackered). My gym efforts are to work off the delicious desserts and good I have been savouring at my pastry chef course on a Saturday. I’ve been working out so hard my track pants have a small hole in the leg (don’t know how it happened) so that means tonight I will be gym clothes shopping.


D & I are museli bar fanatics but our cupboards were museli bar bare so I resorted to an old oat cookie recipe which I hadn’t made in ages. I was itching to bake – you know how it is. The cookies have just enough flour (gf flour) to hold them together whilst they bake. I will endeavour to make another batch, simply so I can take some pictures.

Ice Cream Sandwich’s

Today I’m thinking about Ice Cream Sandwich’s

A cracker of an ice cream sandwich I think you will agree

Still have my fingers!

Week two of the pastry course saw me trying to julienne carrots, finely dice onions, make a tomato concasse, zest an orange then remove neat segments, topped off with wedging a lemon; none of it is as easy as it looks – believe me. 

The French terminology is swimming in my head at the moment; Saturday was a whirlwind of chopping cutting whilst trying to keep a steady pace and most importantly trying to avoid my fingers.  The chef’s knife in my toolkit is scarily sharp, I managed a tiny nick to my index finger on my left hand and spent the day wearing my chefy blue band aid….I can guarantee this is my introduction to a long relationship with blue band aids.

Hello pastry world!

I’m on a sweet sugary high…last week I enrolled in a Certificate III in Patisserie course which means by November 2011 I will be a fully qualified pastry chef.  I am thrilled that they let me enrol with only one day before the course was due to start. My fellow classmates appear to be feeling the same way as me – stuck in a rut with a great desire to change their current paths. I feel like there is light at the end of the tunnel…finally.