Tag: White sugar
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Hokey Pokey: New Zealand’s Best Kept Secret
Candy surprise from Down-Under I had forgotten all about hokey pokey until recently when we went down to visit my family in New Zealand. Suddenly I saw it everywhere: in ice-cream, in biscuits, in chocolate and even by itself. It’s New Zealand’s best kept secret (or maybe second best, after the fact that…
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Baci Di Dama
The joy of choosing tiny pastries Baci di Dama are cookies that you find in pasticcerias all over the region of Piedmont in Northern Italy. We always choose to have a few when we go in to order a tray of pasticcini. I adore this Italian tradition of picking up a tray full of all…
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Mothballs: A Sweet Treat From New Zealand
Don’t be deceived by the unappetizing name Since the holidays season is here, over the next few weeks on Italian Kiwi, I’m going to be sharing recipes for sweet treats and cookies that you can make for this time of the year. Christmas is a great excuse to load yourself up with sugar.…
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Mrs Rawnsley’s Sponge Cake
Discovering history through an old recipe book Who is Mrs Rawnsley? Where did she get this recipe for sponge cake from? Did she make it up herself? Did she get it from a friend or a neighbour? These are questions that I’d love to have the answer to, but unless one of Mrs…
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Pears In Red Wine Syrup
The importance of pears I was at the greengrocer (does anyone still actually use that word?) the other day and found some pears that I’ve only ever seen in Italian restaurants: small brownish-green pears called the Martin Sec, which are a very old variety of pear. Apparently the pears were first mentioned in…
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Snickerdoodles: The Great American Cookie
What is a snickerdoodle anyway? I spent a few years living in California, which is where I was introduced to these fabulous cookies called snickerdoodles. When I first heard the name “snickerdoodle”, I thought it was another one of those strange poodle crosses, like the labradoodle (now, who wouldn’t want one of those?!). In…
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Raspberries And Cream, Dolomite Style!
A Little “Hot-Love” From The Dolomite Mountains No, don’t worry, I’m not changing the theme on my blog to something more raunchy (though I could probably make money if I did). Last year, when we went to the Dolomite Mountains in the North-East of Italy, one of the desserts that we HAD to try…
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Chocolate Caramel Cookies
Why it’s time to make your own cookies My kids have been eating way too many commercial cookies out of a packet recently, so I decided it was time to get baking. I often make ginger/cinnamon cookies with this recipe that I am going to share with you, but decided it was time…
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Emma’s Date Scones
A short introduction I’m back! I’m sorry I’ve been away for so long, but the Summer got a little bit crazy! I had lots of fun in Italy in the Dolomiti mountains, which I’ll be writing about in the coming weeks, but for now, I wanted to start off the “beginning of the year”…
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Plum and Cherry Sorbet
“We REALLY need to have some sorbet,” my husband decided yesterday. I had a look in our fruitbowl: three rotten peaches, 2 fuzzy apricots, some cherries and some plums, but not enough of anything to make a single flavour sorbet. What to do? Have you ever eaten a sorbet that has more than one fruit…
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Elsie’s Fingers (Sugar-Rolled Biscuits)
Bringing back a traditional NZ cookie These biscuits from New Zealand, called Elsie’s Fingers, are a very old (as far as history goes for New Zealand!) cookie that was an integral part of the childhood of anyone born before the 80’s. I remember often snacking on Elsie’s Fingers for afternoon tea when I…
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Ginger Slice from New Zealand
A classic square from the annuals of my childhood cookbook I’m back from New Zealand and, after a week of sleepless nights, finally over the jet-lag! While I was there, my mother made ginger slice, which whisked me back to my childhood faster than that Back to the Future dude went all over…
