Kate recently joined the product development team here in Dunedin. A passionate foodie, Kate has worked as a chef, studied food-science and runs her own wedding cake business on the side. This month she shares with us her recipe for sticky, sweet and decadent caramel poached pears.

Custard squares are a bit of a Kiwi tradition, you are always lucky to find them in a café as they don’t normally last long. There can be some technique involved in eating one, if the custard filling is too soft then when you bite into the pastry top and bottom, the custard squishes out [...]

This post has been a long time coming! I have been waiting for the perfect opportunity to put it up. The first time I had ever seen or tasted this cake was in Japan although its origins are German.

You don’t see blood oranges all that often in Auckland supermarkets so when I saw a display of them at the counter of Emma’s little corner fruit shop I was overwhelmed with excitement and happiness.

The third and final place-getting recipe from last year’s office bake-off comes from Simon, one of our senior engineers. A real foodie; Simon has previously shared with us his Schiacciata con l’uva, a traditional autumn bread made in Tuscany. For the bake-off he made this incredible

I had never made steamed pudding before, until Sunday. Seeing as this month’s theme is winter warmers I figured it fitted perfectly. Furthermore, sitting on my shelves in the dining room I have the most beautiful ceramic pudding basin which dates back to 1911, and in which I thought I would make this delicious dessert. [...]

Last week Sam shared with you his winning chocolate macaron recipe from last year’s Dunedin office bake-off. Today we bring you the second place getter, a beautiful, sweet braided bread made by Isabelle, one of our engineering team leaders.

Over Easter my friend Sera was raving about a cake her mum makes and offered to share the recipe for this divine cake with me! So on arriving back to work after Easter and checking my emails, I was very excited to find she had generously sent the recipe to me!

Our family have a tradition on birthdays that whoever’s special day it is; they get to choose breakfast. Ever since I was old enough to choose what I wanted for my birthday breakfast I would choose pancakes. Without fail. Every year; I still do! Whist the pancakes I wanted when I was small were never [...]

I thought I was really clever with this recipe – serving up a healthier alternative to the traditional ice cream sundae. But as Rhylee, (our model and chief taster for the day) took her first mouthful, her wide, excited eyes narrowed and her smile disappeared. She looked at me sideways and said “oh……is this yoghurt”.

Whilst the conditions outside (all grey skies and rain) are hardly conducive to the consumption of frozen desserts, it is summer here in the southern hemisphere and our fair city, infamous for her erratic weather patterns, could quite easily turn on the sunshine by the time afternoon rolls around.

I’m suffering some serious writers block. It is two fifty nine on a summery Monday afternoon and Valentines Day is more than half over, on this side of date line at least. There’s no denying I’m a romantic so theoretically the words should be gushing out all sugar and spice. Nope, nothing.