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By Susan, on November 1st, 2010 
Have I finally cracked the Levain Bakery Cookie Code? I had my third attempt at duplicating the best cookie on Earth and this time I think I may have done it! I can now sleep soundly at night without tossing and turning over choc chips, walnuts and oven temps
My husband Paul and I first came across the Levain Bakery while on a 2 month expedition of the modern jungle which is New York City. Manhattan Island is my favorite destination and whenever I think of the time we spent there I long
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By Susan, on October 29th, 2010  These are lovely delicate ginger sandwich cookies complete with double ginger filling. You could fill them with any flavor icing but I wanted an intense ginger taste. Can you have too much ginger? I have slowly become a huge ginger fanatic: ginger beer, ginger cookies, chocolate covered ginger, ginger cake, ginger ale – it is all fantastic! These sweet little cookies are addictive and you’ll find the batch will quickly disappear. My batch lasted a few hours….
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By Susan, on October 5th, 2010  I like the store bought biscuit selection we have in Australia: Tim Tams, Mint Slices, Kingstons and who could forget the Monte Carlo. Monte Carlos are one of my grand mothers favorite biscuits, so I decided to bake her a batch for her birthday.
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By Susan, on September 11th, 2010  It’s been three and a half months since I last stepped into my kitchen. I was secretly worried I may have lost my touch and would no longer be able to bake mouth watering sweeties, so when being invited to my Aunt’s place for friday night pizza I thought there was no better opportunity to face my fears.
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By Susan, on May 7th, 2010  If you are looking for Boozy Brownies look no further, alcohol soaked prunes are added to these brownies and need to be soaked for 3 days before cooking  These would be great at Christmas time! Forget the Christmas pudding – drunken, chocolaty brownies are here! Beware, these are VERY rich so 1 batch of brownies goes a long way 
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By Susan, on May 1st, 2010  This slice was my Mum’s request. It is a very common slice in Australia with almost every bakery offering it for sale. It was the first slice I fell in love with and wanted to bake. This version has a couple of variations from the traditional ‘Raspberry Coconut Slice’ you find around the place; firstly, I have used freshly grated coconut instead of the desiccated kind making it deliciously moist; and secondly, I have incorporated real raspberries, the tang of the fresh fruit is the perfect partner to the sweet raspberry jam and makes it very difficult to stop at just one piece!
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By Susan, on April 19th, 2010 
This slice can be dairy free providing you use dairy free chocolate. It can be difficult catering for food intolerances at times and I always keep an eye out for good recipes. This is a very nice and easy chocolate-coconut slice
Choc-Cherry Macaroon Slice
Recipe from Womens Weekly
Makes 16
Ingredients 3 egg whites 1/2 cup caster sugar 100g (3.5 oz) dark eating chocolate, grated coarsley 1/4 cup plain flour, sifted 1 1/3 cups of shredded coconut 3/4 cup red glacé cherries 50g (1.8 oz) dark eating chocolate, melted Method Preheat oven to 150c (300f) and line a
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By Susan, on April 13th, 2010 
These are a UK goodie, a fair few members of my extended family have grown up in the UK and never having a real Jaffa cake myself I was curious to see how this homemade version would hold up. These went down extremely well…. so well, that I will double the recipe when making them from now on, one batch is just not enough!
Jaffa Cakes
Adapted from a recipe by Uncle Phaedrus
Makes 18
Ingredients 2 eggs 50g (2oz) sugar 65g (2 1/2oz) self-raising flour, sieved Approx 4 tbsp marmalade, sieved (I used
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