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Mini Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins – High Tea Series (Part 3)

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Mini Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins from Cath’s Cookery Creations! @CathsCookery

Mum made two different chocolate chip treats when we were kids.  My brother and I both loved the chocolate chip cookies but he was not a fan of the chocolate chip muffins, which was great for me.  From memory I think it was because of the orange flavour which is kind of funny now as he loves orange chocolate, so much so that the hubby and I gave him about five kilograms of Jaffas for Christmas a few years ago.  Needless to say, he went off orange chocolate for a while again.

For the final tier for my High Tea, I needed something small so I decided to make Mini Orange Chocolate Chip Muffins which would fit quite nicely.

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Chocolate Rose Biscuits – High Tea Series (Part 2)

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High Tea Series - Chocolate Rose Biscuits from Cath's Cookery Creations! @CathsCookeryI am quite addicted to piping a rose pattern having honed my skills on a wedding cake, a cake for the local Inner Wheel group as well as on the top of cupcakes.  So why not use the same technique for biscuits?  The blog that inspired the rose pattern posted some Neapolitan Spritz Cookies earlier this year and I knew straight away that I had to make them.  Although I didn’t package them quite the way Amanda at i am baker did (which is super cute), I did show them off on my new high tea stand so these Chocolate Rose Biscuits with Rose Water Buttercream could be part two of my high tea series.

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Red Velvet Cupcakes and My First Blogiversary

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Red Velvet Cupcakes from Cath's Cookery Creations! @CathsCookeryCan you believe that on Wednesday it will be one year since I published the first post about My Best Friend’s Wedding Cake?  It is just absolutely crazy.

So for my celebratory post on my first blogiversary (as those in the biz call it) I thought I would share the cupcakes that inspired the cake that inspired the blog.  These red velvet cupcakes are always popular whenever I make them, so much so that I made over 300 of them one weekend for a bunch of my brother’s friends.  I absolutely adore everything about them.

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Chocolate Cupcakes with Rose Buttercream

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Chocolate Cupcakes with Rose Buttercream from Cath's Cookery Creations! @CathsCookeryHi.  My name is Cath, and I am a cupcake-a-holic.

As you may have gathered, I love to cook, and especially bake.  I do love all kinds of baking, but at the end of the day, as much as I love macarons, cakes, biscuits and brownies, my true love is cupcakes.  They are cute little packages of delight, sure to bring a smile to anyone’s dial.  For years and years and years and years they have been my go to treat and a few of the many varieties I have made are lemon and lime, red velvet (it started the whole red velvet craze in my world), chocolate, lemon meringue and the trusty old vanilla.  I love cupcakes that much that I have cupcakes on my dressing gown, apron, two bags, a tea towel and a cupcake shaped plate.  I am also going to be getting a vinyl sticker for a wall in my kitchen that reads “love and cupcakes are all you need” after seeing a print that Sally from Sally’s Baking Addiction received.  So yes, a little obsessed over here.

So for my first foray back into the cupcake world after a long hiatus, I asked my friend C what her favourite chocolate bar was to inspire a cupcake for her birthday.  Originally I was going to call these Turkish Delight cupcakes (as that was the answer to my question), and I guess I sort of can because the flavour is essentially there.  But when you search for Turkish Delight cupcakes on the interweb, there usually is Turkish Delight in/on them.  So I am going to go with the much longer name of Chocolate Cupcakes with Rose Buttercream.  Phew!

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Lamingtons and Sprinkletons

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Lamingtons and Sprinkletons from Cath's Cookery Creations! @CathsCookery
There is a rule, in my house anyway, that on Australia Day you must eat a lamington.  I did kind of break that rule this year, although we did eat Pavlova instead, but I think I more than made up for it by making a whole bunch of them a couple of days later.

A friend of mine from Mexico Victoria was staying with us at the time, and they do things a little differently down there by filling their lamingtons with jam so I made half of the batch the traditional way with just the plain cake dipped in chocolate and covered with coconut, and the remainder filled with jam and covered in coconut.  I did run out of coconut so the remainder of the jam lamingtons were covered with coloured sprinkles, hence Sprinkletons were born.

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Chocolate and Caramel Brownies

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Chocolate and Caramel Brownies from Cath's Cookery Creations | www.cathscookerycreations.com
Last year, Adriano Zumbo had a television series about his work and in the third episode he headed back to the town where he grew up.  In that episode, he visited the local school and made chocolate and caramel brownies with some of the students.

The recipe looked pretty darn tasty which was a good invitation to make it as far as I was concerned.

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Rose Petal Scones

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Now I am a scone lover from way back.  Growing up, I remember going to my Nan’s house to make scones, or help her eat the one’s that she had just finished baking.  Smelling them as I walked through the front door and seeing them on top of the stove wrapped in a tea towel waiting to cool is one of the most vivid things I remember about my time cooking with Nan.

One of the places on my “to visit” list has been The Victoria Tea Salon in the new Westfield shopping centre after reading about it on Not Quite Nigella’s blog.  I am not a tea drinker, but given my love of all things sweet and cute, I was ensuring we were able to go on our recent trip to the big smoke to savour their scones.

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Lemon Sour Cream Cake with Pine Nuts

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Lemon Sour Cream Cake with Pine Nuts from Cath's Cookery Creations | www.cathscookerycreations.com
The hubby and I have a little addiction to pine nuts.  We will put them in everything we can whether it be pasta, lasagne or salad.  However, I have never had them in a sweet dish.

Imagine my delight when I bought Classic Cakes by The Australian Women’s Weekly with one of the very first cakes in the book being a Lemon Sour Cream Cake which just happens to be topped with pine nuts.  The oven was calling.

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Southern Bombe

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Southern Bombe from Cath's Cookery Creations | www.cathscookerycreations.com
Another one of the cookbooks I purchased recently was SprinkleBakes by Heather Baird.  I came across Heather’s blog when I was looking for red recipes to use up the extra food colouring purchased for My Best Friend’s Wedding Cake and I made the Red Spiral Biscuits, also featured in the book.

As I was flicking through the book when it arrived, one particular recipe stood out and I knew I had the perfect occasion to make it.  The recipe was for a Southern Bombe and the occasion was yet another September birthday celebration for two of my beautiful friends.

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Zucchini Slice

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Zucchini Slice from Cath's Cookery Creations | www.cathscookerycreations.com
Although I have eaten Zucchini Slice many times, I have never actually made it which may be surprising given my vegetarianism.  When a friend asked me to make it for a work lunch she was attending I didn’t have a recipe at hand so I scoured the interweb for inspiration.

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