Great crepes.

Here it is: the best crepe recipe I've ever tried anywhere. And I've tried plenty. I'm not kidding. Throw away every other sweet crepe recipe you have, because you'll never need them ever again. Ever.  Ingredients: 1.5 Cups flour 1/4 teaspoon salt 2 Tablespoons sugar. 30 g melted

The kids go bananas.

For this. I'm using Alison Gofton's recipe for banana cake at the moment and I gotta say it comes up REAL good. Use this: Quick tips: for good measure add in a tablespoon of plain yoghurt if you have it. Also ... bananas are best mashed up and left overnight in the fridge. The

Eggless fruit cake.

Ken reckons this is dead easy. Egg free for the allergic folks ... eggsellent. Ha - what a crack up. I'm really coming out of my shell now. Okay ... that's enough. Ingredients: 1kg fruit mix 1 cup water 1 t mixed spice           1 t cinnamon 1 t vinegar 1 T brandy 225 gms butter 1 tin condensed milk 1 t baking soda 2

Gingernuts recipe.

Doug's famous for his gingernuts. These ones come out so much better than the bought variety. Ingredients:  100g butter 225g sugar 1 egg 1 Tbsp golden syrup 250g flour 1 tsp baking soda 4 tsp ground ginger Method:  Pre-heat the oven to 170ºC or 160 if you have fan-bake. Chuck

The recipe you've been asking for.

So many have asked for this, so here it is. Based on my Grandma's Anzac biscuit recipe, but with a few, ahhh, modifications. this recipe makes 12 decent sized biscuits. Ingredients: 1 cup of standard flour 1 teaspoon of baking powder 3/4 cup of shredded coconut 3/4 cup of rolled oats 3/4 cup

But why?

Why do I bake? Is a question oft asked of me by Blokes Who Don't. And I could answer it with many complicated words, or with a few simple words ... or better yet with a handy-dandy video of this one time at a PechaKucha night in Wellington. And look - here it is, in which I answer that very que