Recipe: Snickers Bliss Balls

I loved the bliss ball craze when it started. There were so many variations of these tasty little ‘healthy’ balls – so much better for you than the ‘butter and rum balls’ (albeit delicious) that my mum used to make for us. Peanut and chocolate is a winning combination, which is why I’ve opted to…

Recipe: Chocolate Chunk Cookies

Who doesn’t love themselves a gooey, chocolate cookie? This recipe is just so great, I have made them so many times now that I think I really have perfected them. The original recipe that I adapted them from used just plain milk chocolate chips, but I like to use broken up blocks of chocolate so…

Recipe: Chocolate Mud Cake

This cake is absolutely to die for. It is so dense and gooey and rich and moist – everything a cake should be. I think if I were to make it again I would go easy on the extras – all the occasions I have made it for so far have been for various friends…

Recipe: Saucy Chocolate Pudding

It’s hearty, warm and delicious. I can’t claim full credit for this recipe, it’s one that I have stolen from Chelsea Winter – and like almost all of her recipes, it is simple yet still a massive crowd-pleaser. At a recent dinner party, everybody kept asking me whether they could have my ‘secret’ recipe; nobody…

KOI Dessert Bar

KOI Dessert Bar (46 Kensington St, Chippendale) As a massive MasterChef fan, my chances of going here on my most recent trip to Sydney were high. I absolutely adored Reynold when he made a name for himself as a dessert connoisseur on Australian MasterChef 2015. I made a reservation a week prior (I would definitely…

The Lindt Cafe

The Lindt Cafe (53 Martin Place) Enough to induce salivation by its mere title, the Lindt Cafe was top of the list of our places we wanted to visit when we in Sydney. Having heard all about the siege that happened back in 2014, we were intrigued to see the place where it all happened, and…

Recipe: Chocolate & Avocado Mousse

Yum. This mousse is absolutely delightful – you would have no idea that it isn’t full of all things bad for you, and that in fact, it contains avocado – which is a delicious food high in all the right fats. The avocado gives the mousse a rich, creamy texture and the addition of chocolate…

Craft Chocolate and Soda Night

A WOAP event that was such a hit, there just had to be another one, and thankfully for all, there was. I had unsuccessfully tried to get tickets for the original event, so I was overjoyed to see round two advertised. Hosted by Luke of The Chocolate Bar at Leeds Street’s Six Barrel Soda, it…

A bite-size piece of WOAP!

This time last year I was relatively new to Wellington and when WOAP 2015 came about I was seriously caught off guard. So many events to go, not many tickets left and even less money to fund the situation. But this year I was ready. By the time tickets came on sale I had already…

The Laneway Progressive Dinner

        Most that know me know just how much I adore Leeds Street. It’s quaint, quirky and oh-so-Wellington. So when I saw this event advertised it felt like a match made in heaven (it also included Egmont Street Eatery – what a bonus!). I got tickets as soon as they came on…