A childhood favorite, now a winter time treat I make for friends and family here in Australia. Growing up on a tropical island full of coconut trees, why not make tastey treats with an item that’s basically free and easily found, coconuts. The rough part is the texture when you add grated coconut to aContinue reading “Coconut Rough cake”
Category Archives: Baking
Sweet Potato Pudding (Pone)
This is a Murasaki sweet potato most comonly know as a sweet potato in the Caribbean. This has a white fleshed and a purple skined groud tuber vegetavle, and is drier than it’s orange counterpart. When we say sweet potato in the Caribbean, this is what we mean. Bigger islands refer to this recipe asContinue reading “Sweet Potato Pudding (Pone)”
Bread
Nothing more special than baking bread at home for your family. The smell that fills your home when the bread is in the oven is like no other smell. Nothing like fresh bread, and butter. Take some time to bake a loaf for your family over the weekend. Here’s my favorite recipe for a plainContinue reading “Bread”
Carrot Cake 🥕
This cake has been adopted by me since moving to Australia. I’ve never had a carrot cake made by a family member in the Caribbean, but I’ve added this cake to my baking repertoire. I make it very simple, not too much decoration, because it’s all about the taste. Ingredients 1 1/2 cup caster sugarContinue reading “Carrot Cake 🥕”
Spinach and Fetta Quiche
Banana Bread
I’ve never bought bananas to make Banana Bread with, I’ve always just used what bananas we didn’t eat that started to get over-ripe. Not to be confused with Banana cake, it’s the one yeast free bread that you can make as healthy or as decadent as you want. I make a modest Banana bread, nothingContinue reading “Banana Bread”
Caribbean Butter Flaps or Coco Bread
This bread is popular Caribbean-wide, Jamaicans call it coco bread because sometimes it’s made with coconut milk and grated coconut. You can replace coconut milk with any other milk to make this bread and just call it a butter flap. This bread was a scarce treat as my mom and aunts don’t like butter. IContinue reading “Caribbean Butter Flaps or Coco Bread”
Scones
I was first introduced to scones in my high school home economics class, I would not see a scone again till my hubby made me scones in Australia 10 years later as a newly wed. Scones are usually eaten in Australia for morning tea, a snack between breakfast and lunch, brunch. My Hubby loves sconesContinue reading “Scones”
JAKARI Bread
This is still my favorite bread when I return home to visit. Jakari bread was my school lunch bread, and afternoon snack bread with peanut butter. I like the unique shape and the softness. I can’t get Jakari bread in Australia, so I decided to make my own. I called an Aunty for some basicsContinue reading “JAKARI Bread”
Cinnamon and Sultana Scrolls
Ingredients Dough 2 Cups Plain Flour 1 Packet instant yeast 1 tsp Salt 1/2 cup sugar 1 Egg 1 Cup milk 200g Melted butter Spread: 200g room temp butter, cinnamon powder, all-spice, brown sugar, 1 cup of sultanas How I did it Video: Form your dough and let rise for 1 hour, covered in aContinue reading “Cinnamon and Sultana Scrolls”
Grande Mangeur 