Dear you …― 8
Pantry, tools and other
important things
Ingredients I use the most ― 12
The sweetest tools/equipment ― 24
How I bake ― 26
Cookie jar and tray bakes
Top tips ― 32
Milk chocolate and Earl Grey diges-tea-ves ― 35
Mandarin custard genovesi ― 37
Salty sweet lime crisp sandwiches ― 41
Mocha glim glams ― 43
Macadamia and white chocolate chonky
chip cookies ― 49
Tangelo custard creams ― 51
The brownie (that is my favourite) ― 55
Triple ginger gingerbread hoops ― 57
Everything fig-scotti ― 61
Doughs like a pro
butter-rich, oil-based
and yeasted doughs
Matters of crust ― 66
Crème fraîche shortbread crust ― 68
Brisee butter crust ― 71
Yoghurt rough puff pastry ― 74
Super flaky buckwheat crust (not gluten free) ― 76
Stretchy dough ― 78
Yeasted doughs ― 82
Sweet yeast day-before dough ― 84
Croiss-ain’t/faux-ssaint dough― 87
Tarts, pies and a strudel
Pie-ces of advice ― 93
Don’t leak: how to win at liquid-filling
tart life ― 94
Lemon cream tart ― 97
Rhubarb and strawberry hand pies ― 100
Nectarine and rye streusel strudel ― 105
Fig, brown butter + almond frangipane
tartlets ― 109
Chocolate rum maple pecan pie ― 115
Christmas fruit mince pies ― 119
Vanilla malted milk custard tart ― 122
Banana cream pie with sesame toffee crunch ― 126
Jammy crumble crostata ― 129
Nicole Rucker’s life-affirming lime pie ― 131
Double-crust apple pie with buckwheat crust ― 135
The cake list
Cake coaching ― 142
Lovely layer cake-ing ― 144
Olive oil sponge roll with one-pot
passionfruit curd ― 146
Cocoa sour cream layer cake ― 151
Yuzu soufflé cheesecake ― 155
Flourless chocolate cake ― 159
Hazelnut layer cake with roasted cherries
and honeycomb ― 163
Heat and whip sponge cake ― 165
Toasted coconut + kaya tres leches ― 169
Gingerspice angel food cake with milk chocolate
ganache and rye streusel ― 172
Ban-almond double crunch cheesecake
with tropical fruits ― 177
Lemon (make it Meyer if you can) buttermilk
chiffon cake ― 181
Coconut sugar pavlova roll with spiced grilled
blood plums ― 185
Fresh strawberry buttersponge with mascarpone
mousse and strawberry sherbet ― 188
Walnut la marjolaine with cumquats ― 193
Chicory caramel mascarpone layer cake ― 196