Butter Baking

Butter Baking

A Blog of Baked Goods

Monthly Archives: March 2012

Chocolate Chip Hot Cross Buns

Only one more week until Easter! Last Easter, I was absolutely obsessed, OBSESSED, with hot cross buns. Not the traditional kind, however, with all the dried fruit and candied peel and all those gross things. The chocolate chip kind of hot cross buns. It started thanks to the local bakery chain in the mall where I work. Around last Easter, I was working at a mens retail store, and spent … Continue reading →

Blueberry Ricotta Hotcakes

What kind of breakfast person are you? When you go out, what do you order? Are you a sweet person or a savory person? Waffles or scramble? Pancakes or eggs Benedict? French toast or a big breakfast? Bircher muesli or bacon? Porridge or home fries? I can never decide. I always want the sweet breakfast, the twice baked french toast, the chocolate chip pancakes or the Belgian waffles. But I … Continue reading →

Strawberry Cookies

I was so pleasantly surprised by these blueberry cookies, that I thought I would try the same idea out with some different fruit – strawberries! They were yummy, kind of like strawberry pie, kind of like strawberry crumble, with the combination of the crisp cookie and the soft baked strawberries. My friend came over the evening I baked them and ate them all up! They’re nice and refreshing too, because … Continue reading →

Fudgy Chocolate Chip Brownies

Okay, so I have been going crazy with the brownie recipes lately. I went from not having any classic brownie recipes on the blog to baking up three different types in such a short amount of time. It’s because I have been on a search. For the ultimate brownie. My idea of the ultimate brownie is fudgyness, chewiness, gooeyness, chocolateyness. I am well aware that hardly any of those adjectives … Continue reading →

Blueberry, Macadamia and White Chocolate Chip Cookies

I went to the market just the other day. I had this kind of fun, kind of annoying assignment where I had to run around and list the budget, premium and organic prices of a huge list of fruit, vegetables, meat and seafood. I couldn’t really find budget/premium, it was more like normal prices, and organic prices. And I was shocked. Who would have thought that an organic chicken breast … Continue reading →

Strawberry Crumble

Autumn is here. It came quite suddenly, as soon as February finished. Just as summer was technically over, on the first day of March, I found autumn leaves at my back door. I am welcoming autumn, and winter, this year. Summer in Australia is hot, humid and disgusting. I don’t live near the beach and the sun here is too strong to lie in it for long anyway. So cooler … Continue reading →

Brownies

So we were supposed to make brownies at culinary school the other day. The class was called Cakes and chocolate mud cake and brownies were on the agenda. Everyone was excited to make the brownies, to eat them, and to take them home. Come 12.30pm and we found out our teacher had to cover another class, so we were stuck with a substitute. And as soon as everyone saw that … Continue reading →

Strawberry and Blueberry Custard Pie

I love blogging and the blogging world. It lets me bake, write about baked goods, share my ideas, discuss by baking thoughts, share my versions of baked goods, read your comments, make baking friends, reply to your comments and talk about baking with you, read other blogs, see their baking ideas, and basically through posting, it allows me to talk to myself about baking. Because no one else I know, … Continue reading →

Nutella Filled Chocolate Chip Cookies

I love Nutella! And I love cookies. If you are a regular visitor over here at Butter, you would totally be well aware of those facts. I grew up eating Nutella, and since there’s no Biscoff in Australia, and I desperately want to get my hands on it to bake with, I’ve been busying myself with Nutella recipes instead. I have made cookies filled with Nutella before, but that was … Continue reading →

Peach and Raspberry Rustic Tart

What is your favourite style of pie? Deep dish pies? Lattice-topped pies? Little, mini pies, maybe? I really like crumble-topped pies. What about skillet baked pies? Or open top pies? Tarts, maybe? I’m usually a traditional pie kind of girl, but I love the ease of these rustic tarts or galettes. They are so simple to make; you just roll out your pastry dough and spread the filling all over … Continue reading →