I’m definitely a doomsday preper styled holiday maker. I feel the urgency to eat everything in the house, clean profusely & spring clean in the days leading up to a trip - even though sometimes I am away for a night. On a whim to finish the honeycomb at home before flying out, I decided to chuck it in my chocolate chip cookie recipe from the cafe.
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Strawberry & Lychee Muffins
I was recently invited to participate in the Festival 21 bake sale by Fully Booked Women. Festival 21 is a two-day celebration championing food and inspiring positive change. It brings to light issues involving wasting food & how it affects our own health, social systems & planet. The Sandro Demaio Foundation puts on these types of festivals for free in our community; which is why I felt honoured to participate in this bake sale to raise money for this foundation.
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Alice Nivens' Festive Fruit & Rum Cake
Who doesn't love the end of year festive period - 'tis the season to be baking! I love the traditional flavours of Christmas, but with modern day stresses and hectic schedule we don’t always have time (or remember) to be macerating fruit six months’ in advance. That’s why I created this modern styled Festive fruit cake recipe for the Herald Sun Christmas Gift Guide in 2016.
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Alice's Celebratory Cake
The cafe has brought me the most amazing opportunities in my career & creating this recipe for TV was no exception! It's been two years since my Celebratory Cake was featured on Channel 9's Postcards (12/08/16). I demonstrated with Livinia Nixon how to bake & make it. It's a fail safe recipe - and one our most popular cakes!
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Pannacotta Lamingtons
Seeing as National Lamington Day falls over the weekend, I thought it would be fitting to do up some lamingtons for tea time. These lamingtons were born after an awe inspiring visit to Sydney's Flour and Stone w my sisters in 2016. Their pannacotta soaked lamingtons were THE lamington experience! So genius - soaking the sponge in pannacotta to keep it moist. When I returned to the cafe, I tried very hard to re-create their delicious lamington, & this is my interpretation.
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Golden Oat Cookies
I bought a jar of the most decadent dulce de leche from The Essential Ingredient recently. It reminded me of my favourite cookie sandwich from the cafe. Inspired by Fig + Salt, these cookie sandwiches are simply two deliciously golden ANZAC cookies glued together with vanilla buttercream and a thick coat of dulce de leche.
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