Banana Cake

Great use for old, soft and (yes) blackened bananas. This recipe is Jane's from when she was 12.

Honey Jumbles

Exactly like the ones Arnott's used to sell - but these are made at home - has ginger, spices and cloves.

Lemon Meringue Cheese Cake

Cream cheese, condensed milk, eggs, biscuit crust...

Russian Pear Cake

Just a plain flour, butter, sugar and eggs cake mix with pears and lemon.

Extra Lemony Lemon Slice

Great if you have a glut of lemons - uses juice plus zest.  And crushed biscuits.

Hot Cross Buns

Need time - yeast takes ~15mins, the dough needs to rise twice (~ 40 mins x 2) and it cooks (~ 20 mins).

Christmas Fruit Cake

Lots of dried fruit which we soak overnight in sherry or brandy - cooks for 3.5 hours.

Cranberry Orange Cup Cakes

Uses ricotta or sour cream - plus spices, flour etc.

Blueberry Muffins

Crunchy top with sugar, flour, lemon zest, butter and chopped pecans.

HiSpice Pumpkin Pie

Quick and simple to make: uses tinned pumpkin and a bought pie crust!

Caramel Bananas

Perfect for a last minute desert idea - surprisingly quick and delicious.

Fudge

Very easy to make chocolate fudge that really comes into its own when you add nuts, pretzels, marshmallows etc.

ANZAC Biscuits

Oats, desiccated coconut, golden syrup and bicarb of soda, sugar and flour - and not much else.

Berry Sour Cream Crumb Cake

A crunchy flour, sugar, lemon & butter topping makes it.

Baklava

Butter, walnuts, cinnamon, sugar, cloves, honey, vanilla, cloves and filo pastry: Tom's Christmas tradition.

Pecan Pie

Pecans, eggs, sugar, butter, flour, milk - and bourbon! (We use pre-fabricated - bought - 10" pie crusts.)

College Cookies

Our most made bikkies - with chocolate chips, dry fruit and walnuts.

Crunchy Topped Almond Cake

A staple for birthdays here - slivered almonds on top.

Pavlova

Needs a long time in a slow oven. Perfect topping for fresh fruit - especially passion fruit if you can find it.

Blueberry Sour Cream Cake

All the familiar baking ingredients - plus blueberries and sour cream.

Chocolate Brownies

Old friend Beverley's recipe that uses a secret ingredient: Butterscotch chocolate chips!

Stollen Christmas Bread

Christmas treat filled with a home-made marzipan log.

Hummingbird Cake

The basic banana cake recipe with pineapple added and a cream cheese icing.