Aussie Joy's Life

  Passionfruit Kisses or Passionfruit Melting moments are a delicious way to impress your guest and use up some passionfruits. Ingredients   250g unsalted butter, softened 1 tsp vanilla essence OR 1 tbsp passionfruit 1/2 cup pure icing sugar 1 1/2 cups plain flour 1/2 custard powder Passionfruit filling 120g butter 2 large passionfruit 2 [...]

This is one of the easiest recipes for Rocky Road I’ve ever made.  My sister shared it with me years ago and every year it gets made for someone or some special occasion! Ingredients Packet of good cooking chocolate.  (I like to use Australian Cadbury or Nestle. The better the chocolate the better the sweet. [...]

I used this Coconut Ice recipe for my sisters wedding favours or Bombonieres.  It worked like a treat and everyone loved it! Ingredients 2 cups of icing sugar 395g can of condensed milk 2 1/2 cups of coconut 1/2 tsp of vanilla 1/4 cup of glazed cherries Pink colouring Dark Chocolate Method Combine sifted icing sugar, [...]

Last night I experimented and made a different ‘shaped’ Pavlova. Using the recipe here instead of making one big Pav I made smaller ones with a piping bag that could be mounted on each other to create a ‘Christmas tree’ shape. I used plenty of whipped cream and fruit then dusted it over with some [...]

Despite the name… this Australian Sticky Date Pudding recipe wins hands down every time I make it. The awesome cook, Naarah from Alabaster Box gave me the recipe… which I think was passed onto her by her mum. So I have no idea who to give true credit to for coming up with the recipe… [...]

I love to bake! I think especially since I am rarely home and when I am all I want to do is make a mess in the kitchen and make something from scratch. So I thought today I would share one of three of my favourite Australian biscuit recipes (or Australian Cookie Recipes). Biscuit = [...]

Impress your guest with this summery family friendly fruit punch! Ingredients Quantities are guestimated. 2 litre Ginger Ale 2 litre Lemonade (or as the Americans call it – Sprite) 5ooml Orange Juice 1 litre Fruit punch Juice (or if you are in Australia Golden Circle fruit punch is gold) 1 Fresh Lime 1 tin Crushed [...]

This past weekend I made the famous Australian Dessert – Pavlova. I had so much response to the twitpic photo I sent from my phone that I thought I would share with the world my secret Pavlova recipe that I actually stole from my sister Cherie – who is by far the best home baker [...]