Can you call yourself a Sydneysider jf you haven’t visited the famous Flour and Stone bakery? Located just off William St in Sydney’s CBD (technically Woolloomooloo), Flour and Stone is an institution of heavenly baked goods. While it also boasts some impressive savoury treats–from scrumptious quiches to freshly-baked bread—the hole-in-the-wall bakery and its adjoining cafe are best known for a fine array of cakes.
Founded in 2011 by baker Nadine Ingram, Flour and Stone’s reputation remains impeachable when it comes to a luxurious dessert. The quaint, white shopfront still boasts towers of fresh-baked pastries, powdered with icing sugar, and crisp-bottomed custard tarts wearing crowns of fresh, plump raspberries. Oh, to be so fortunate as to know the secrets of this collection!
Well, fortunately, we do. Ingram has kindly shared some of her favourite bakes with us at Gourmet Traveller—and we have the distinct pleasure of sharing them with you. From Flour and Stone’s crown jewel, the Lemon Dream cake, to a tried-and-tested Christmas cake, these are treats to challenge the bravest home cooks. The reward is worth the effort when you can master some of the best baked goods in all of Sydney.
Whichever of these Flour and Stone recipes you choose, go forth and share the sugar with gusto.
Flour and Stone’s salted caramel chocolate éclairs
Nadine Ingram’s passionfruit tart
Flour and Stone’s Italian Christmas cake
Coconut bundts with mango, passionfruit and lime
Flour and Stone’s lemon dream cake
Flour and Stone’s pink grapefruit sponge with strawberries and sesame frosting
Flour & Stone’s stollen with sour cherries
Flour & Stone’s blackberry and chocolate meringue roulade
Flour and Stone’s trifle with madeleines, lemon curd and peaches
Flour and Stone’s Italian Easter tart
Walnut, maple and milk chocolate fudge
Nadine Ingram’s saffron and sour-cherry brioche
Flour and Stone’s Paris-Brest
Flour and Stone’s chocolate Manjari cake
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