Some tasty treats

Weekend One in Australia: Mission: Find beach-side Fish and Chips. Even though I diverged slightly from the original plan and chose a fish burger over the chips, the mission was, clearly, extremely successful.

Gooey Mocha-filled Organic Donut: Unlike anything I've ever tasted, there were ground up coffee beans melted with the dark chocolate!

Carrot Cake Cupcake with Creamy Cream Cheese Frosting from The Cupcake Bakery in Melbourne. This had the perfect frosting-to-cupcake ratio. SO yum.


















And a mini cupcake from Little Cupcakes -- latte flavored! It had a light and fluffy chocolate cupcake base, with coffee and white chocolate buttercreams. A tiny little bite of heaven -- it was seriously so good.














Here we've got the tasty cheese platter from Peterson's Champagne House, where we had a sparkling wine tasting on our Hunter Valley trip. The cheese was tasty, but the bubbly was better.



And this lovely looking slab of chocolate goodness hails from the Bakery on Wentworth in Leura, which we visited on our Blue Mountains trip. Honestly, it was some of the best, most decadent flourless chocolate cake I've ever had. And the night before I tried it, we had some vanilla cake from them -- I never knew a simple vanilla cake could taste so good! It was dense and delicious, and 100% sinful.

All in all, it's been quite a delicious experience here in Australia. From the endless little cafes to the more elaborate dinner's I've taken in (Indian and Greek), there have been quite a few wonderful culinary adventures. There are countless other culinary creations I haven't photographed, though I can attest to the deliciousness of each and every one. It's too bad there isn't a job which requires the employee to taste their way around the world, because I would be really good at that. I'll just have to "settle" for this.

On a different note, only 37 days until I return home! Australia's pretty incredible, but there is such things as too much of a good thing, and there is a point when you just miss your friends and family so much that the pleasures of exploring a foreign country aren't quite enough to make the 10,000 miles' worth of space between us worthwhile. At any rate, my return is quickly approaching, so I'll live it up while I'm here, and be thrilled when it is finally time to go home. I'm hoping that with my return home will come a revival of this blog, due to the many pastires, baked goods, and desserts that will be produced and consumed in my kitchen after the 19th of December. I can't wait!!!!