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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 May 12th, 2010  Rhubarb is a funny kind of vegetable, extremely sour yet mainly used in sweet dishes. Why does the tartness of Rhubarb work so well when paired with it’s sweet companions? Living in sunny Brisbane Rhubarb in the shops means ‘winter is here’ and what better way to enjoy this seasonal vegetable then a warm comforting crumble!
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By Susan, on May 10th, 2010  Sweet oozing milk caramel + baked cheesecake — a heavenly combination! I recently came across this post on Kitchen Koala’s blog on how to make your own Dulce De Leche (DDL) by slow cooking sweetened condensed milk (SCM) and have been itching to try it since, so when I found a recipe for ‘Dulce De Leche Baked Cheesecake’ I knew this was my chance!
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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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By Susan, on March 30th, 2010 
My Dad give me his meat slicer the other week so I have been busy slicing everything from it’s intended use of roast beef, roast pork and ham and have even subjected pickles to a good slice. As a thank you gift I baked Dad some gingerbread.
He was complaining that they just weren’t the same these days, he recalled his child hood memories of large gingerbread men with a nice soft cakey texture compared to the hard crunchy gingerbread you get today. And so began my gingerbread challenge!
They turned out great! I used a recipe from
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