Welcome to the Australian Pavlova Blog Hop event!

This event was born out of a discussion among myself and fellow food bloggers, The Hungry Australian, Dining With a Stud, 84th & 3rd and The Capers of the Kitchen Crusader, on Twitter one night as we, naturally, discussed food. Discussions soon turned to pavlova, and we all thought it would be a great idea to share our own take on pavlova recipes, and the Australian Pavlova Blog Hop was born.  This event aims to bring together food bloggers to share their amazing pavlova creations, and will hopefully inspire you to create your own pavlovas.

If you would like to learn more about the Great Australian Pavlova Blog Hop event, find out the difference between a pavlova and a meringue or what a blog hop is you can read more here.

Hopefully this event will be the first of many such events, which we are calling Sweet Adventures.  Starting with the Australian Pavlova, each month we aim to explore a new national dessert in a blog hop, just like this one.  If you would like to join the next Sweet Adventure please leave a comment below and we’ll provide you details on the next dessert and country we’ll be exploring.  Also, if you have suggestions for national desserts you would like to see us feature just leave a comment below detailing your ideas.

Now, onto my pavlova. For my pavlova I wanted to do something a little different.  I’m not a big fan of cream, so I didn’t want to go down the traditional fruit and cream route.  I thought for some time about what to make, but when I found some beautiful dark cherries at the grocer one day I knew what I wanted to make – a Black Forest Pavlova!!  You might recall the Black Forest Cake I made for Halloween recently, which was a huge hit in our house, so I thought a Black Forest Pavlova would be equally delicious, and it was!!

Chocolate pavlova, chocolate cream and fresh cherries…let me tell you, it’s a plate full of chocolate sugary deliciousness!  However, if it all seems like a bit too much chocolate for you then you might like to add a simple layer of whipped cream on top of the cherries, before adding the second pavlova on top.

I urge you to check out all of the delicious pavlova submissions below.  They are sure to have you salivating, and hopefully will inspire you to bake your own pavlova.  You will see from all of the submissions that the humble pavlova can in fact be an amazingly diverse dessert.

Do you like pavlova?  Tell me about your favourite pavlova.

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Sweet Adventures: Australian Pavlova Blog Hop

Do you have a fantastic pavlova recipe or would just like to join in the fun and bake your own wonderful pavlova create.  Everyone is welcome, including International bloggers.

IMPORTANT – Please read ALL of the instructions below which explain how this blog hop will work.

If you aren’t sure of something leave me a comment or send me an email and I will help where I can.

1. Add a link to your pavlova post (not your homepage) by clicking Here.
2. When you are asked for your name please enter your blog name, not your name.
3. Please note your link WILL NOT appear straight away as it will be sent to me for approval to ensure we don’t have any issues with spam.  Your post will only be visible after I have approved it.
4. Don’t forget to add the link code back on your blog. Click Here For The Link Code
5. Finally, please add the Australian Pavlova Blog Hop badge (as seen below) to your pavlova post AND provide a link to this page which provides instructions to others on how to join.  Right click on the badge to save as and upload to your website.
6. If you are on Twitter and Tweet about your delicious pavlova we would appreciate it if you could use the #pavbloghop tag so we can track everyone’s tweets and help spread the word!

Australian Pavlova Blog Hop

Check out more delicious pavlova recipes below. Please note that clicking on an image will open the link in a new window.