Seasonally Inspired Recipes & Writing
Baking disasters happen to everyone. That’s what I told myself as the double layer chocolate orange cake I was planning to make stuck to the tin in a magnificent fashion. The only way to get it out was to hack it up into bits – and so it became a Chocolate Orange Easter Tiramisu. Lesson 1 [...]
I’m re-visiting this post from last Easter. It’s time to get baking again! Not that there really are ever any ‘leftover’ mini eggs…but just in case you have a bag or two around this Easter, I hope you find time to make these.
I had an idea, to make some homemade Mother’s Day chocolates, which seemed much less messy in my head (although the photos conveniently don’t show the trail of chocolate all over the worktops) to make some chocolate blobs and decorate them. They seemed to work and my three year old enjoyed adding sprinkles and [...]
These chocolate brownies really ought to come with a warning on them. They are slightly addictive. I bake regularly and I can rustle up a pretty good brownie myself. But inside this little box lies pure decadence. I reviewed Bluebasil Brownies once before and in fact, it came to be one of my popular posts and giveaways. [...]
I am afraid that this is the extent of my Halloween creativity this year! Here are my simple chocolate Halloween decorations. Once you’ve piped them and left them to cool, you can use them to decorate cakes or tarts. I am not one to spend lots and lots of time on gimmicky food treats. By the time [...]
Have you ever tried raw chocolate? I hadn’t, which is why I was intrigued when I received a 100% cacao raw chocolate making starter kit from Galia at Choc Chick. Choc Chick Raw Chocolate Starter Kit Ingredients How does raw chocolate differ from any other chocolate? Well, it’s very interesting from a health perspective. In its raw state, [...]
Cheesecakes, in my fridge, equal danger. There is something about the texture, the creaminess, in this case, the chocolate that just makes me want to go back for more. I especiallly like ’no-bake’ cheesecakes, because they are easy to whip up and they never fail. There’s no baking involved, which means no cracking, no worries about whether it is [...]
This week I was invited to take part in a challenge set by Russell Hobbs to try out their new Creations Kitchen Machine. Russell Hobbs are hosting a champagne and cake party tonight in London to launch their new range of Creations food prep products. My challenge was to make something to the theme of [...]
Yet more baking! This time a lovely chocolate brownie cake that you can make in a flash and easily serve to your guests at short notice minute. This brownie cake was a bit of an experiment. I wanted to see what would happen if I took a trusted brownie recipe and baked it in a round tin, rather than [...]
The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee weekend is getting closer and I’ve been getting creative in the kitchen with a lovely box of ingredients, sent to me by online British gourmet food specialists, Forman and Field . The chaps over at Forman and Field love a good party, so they challenged a fine group of bloggers to create ”a fabulous, magical, celebratory [...]
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