After our BUI (baking under the influence) disaster the other night, me and G decided to give baking another go, this time without the alcohol. It’s a lot easier to bake with a straight head.

We headed to our trusty Bill Granger cookbooks – the recipes are easy to follow and they’ve always turned out great. Speaking of Bill, I can’t believe he’s going to be on Masterchef this week. I would probably faint if I was cooking for him. The Masterchef contestants have their work cut out for them this week. Eek!

Back to the cookbook, at first we had our eye on the Passionfruit Pavlova, but were sorely disappointed to find that we were missing just 1 ingredient – Arrowroot. What in the world is arrowroot? All I know is Milk Arrowroot biscuits, but I don’t think that’s what they mean. Anyway we had to pass on the pavlova this time, but rest assure, we’ll make it next week (with arrowroot).

Instead we made these yummy jam shortbread rolls. It was a lengthy process involving getting your fingers in there, rolling and refrigerating the dough, then slicing and baking it. But it paid off. As soon as they were ready to eat we had 7 between the two of us. Could have gone for more, but it was getting late and too close to bedtime for that much sugar.