Hipster Homemade Cracker Jack!

Buttery, caramel coated popcorn, pretzels and pecans and a heavy hand with the sea salt make for the best damn cracker jack you ever had. It’s super crunchy, and the pecans and caramel lend an almost-pecan-pie flavour to the situation….

Lazy Sunday #2

  Finally, all my Winter-weather summoning dances have paid off. The weather has finally and seriously dropped here in Australia! It was NINE DEGREES overnight (that’s 48F), which is fully winter for us. Like legit cold. And I’m as happy…

The OTHER weird black Australian spread

  Promite. Black, sticky, salty, sweet, and savoury as all hell. Kind of bitter and sour too, but not so much. It’s the true underdog in the canon of weird yeast extract-based spreads that we enjoy down here in the…

Magic Strawberry Rhubarb Pie // The Sugar Hit

Magic Strawberry Rhubarb Pie

This Magic Strawberry Rhubarb Pie is crisp, bubbling, sweet, tart, and mysterious. Strawberries and rhubarb combine; one bubblegum-sweet and the other tooth-achingly sharp, along with a pinch and a splosh and a dusting of a few other secret ingredients, to…

Lazy Sunday // The Sugar Hit

Lazy Sunday #1

  Inspired by Joy’s Sunday Things (get on it) and Laura’s Sunday Thymes (go check em out) and Jess’s Currently Crushing On (she knows her stuff) and my own ‘Sunday Supplements’ (the dorkily named Sunday round-ups that I used to…

Sticky Toffee Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches // The Sugar Hit

Sticky Toffee Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches

Sticky Toffee Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches – it’s a mouthful both literally and figuratively. The literal mouthful is the one you should focus on, though. Buttery, sticky toffee cookies, studded with dates and ginger, filled with a swathe of vanilla…

Better than IKEA Cinnamon Buns! // The Sugar Hit

Better than IKEA Cinnamon Buns

Just a simple, super-tender sweet bread dough, swirled with Christmas-scented cinnamon and baked into a perfectly airy and rich cinnamon bun. No sticky goo. No coffee/maple/Nutella/chocolate chips. Just a damn good, no-nonsense, never-need-another-recipe cinnamon bun. Click here to go straight…