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Tag Archives: Chocolate
RASPBERRY CHOCOLATE MOUSSE CAKE
As its the Easter weekend, and I’m back home visiting my family in Scotland, I wanted to make something special to eat on Easter Sunday, something to round off our Sunday roast. All of last week I was trying to … Continue reading
RASPBERRY ROCKY ROAD
This recipe for raspberry rocky road is one of my favourites. It also seems to be a favourite of most of my friends and family, most notably my sister in law, Sami. When she was pregnant with my nephew last … Continue reading
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Tagged Chocolate, dessert, food, raspberry rocky road, recipe, rocky road, sweet
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RIDICULOUSLY MOREISH COCONUT COOKIES
A few weeks ago we had a truly lovely girl called Irene come to our office for work experience. We all loved her immediately and then she made us love her more by baking for us. She made us these … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, Chocolate, coconut cookies, cookies, food, recipe, sweet
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SALTED CARAMEL BROWNIES
As you may of may not know, it is still National Chocolate Week…what a wonderful name for a ‘week’. What could be better than a chocolate week? Anyway…this wondrous ‘week’ gave me a marvellous excuse to try out some chocolate recipes I’ve … Continue reading
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Tagged Brownies, caramel, Chocolate, food, Paul A Young, pudding, recipe, salted caramel brownies, sweet
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CHOCOLATE & PISTACHIO FUDGE
Continuing my theme on chocolate, since it’s National Chocolate Week, here is a recipe I found in Good Housekeeping’s Chocolate Collection for Chocolate & Pistachio fudge. A lot of recipes for this fudge will include butter but this one doesn’t, … Continue reading
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Tagged Chocolate, chocolate pistachio fudge, food, fudge, Good Housekeeping, recipe, sweet
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NIGELLA’S TOTALLY CHOCOLATE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES
Today marks the first day of National Chocolate Week (8th – 14th October), and if a week devoted to celebrating chocolate isn’t a reason to celebrate, I don’t know what is! To this end, I thought I would make some of Nigella Lawson’s Totally … Continue reading
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Tagged Chocolate, Chocolate chip cookie, food, National Chocolate Week, Nigella Lawson, recipe
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BACK TO THE FUTURE…
I was having a conversation with some friends recently about our favourite desserts. Some people favoured quite fancy desserts, some liked nice comfort desserts like warm sticky toffee pudding with ice cream.. then someone said two little words… Angel Delight. … Continue reading
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Tagged 1970s, 1980s, 70s food, 80s food, Angel Delight, battenburg cake, cakes, childhood, Chocolate, food, ice magic, kia ora, nostalia, popping candy, retro food, sodastream, sweets, wispa
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HOMEMADE NUTELLA
I have been testing out some recipes lately, mainly experimenting with fillings for profiteroles. Whilst I was standing in my kitchen, eating Nutella out of the jar with a tablespoon (yes, I’m a pig!), I decided to come up with … Continue reading
CHARBONNEL ET WALKER’S JUBILEE CELEBRATION
From 7th June 2012… Unless you’ve been living under a rock of late, you will probably have noticed that over the last week or so, Britain has been having a right good knees-up to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. A … Continue reading
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Tagged Bond Street, charbonnel et walker, Chocolate, Jubilee, London
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NIGELLA’S NUTELLA CAKE
When I asked my friend Jordan what kind of cake he’d like for his birthday, he replied…“Is it possible to make a Nutella cake? Does such a thing exist? I bloody hope so”. I knew there I was one place to … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, cake, Chocolate, food, Nigella Lawson, Nutella, recipe
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MARY BERRY’S CHOCOLATE ROULADE
From December 2011 I knew I needed a centrepiece for my table when I had my Christmas party and my first thought was a yule log. However I was running out of time so decided to opt for a chocolate … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, cake, Chocolate, chocolate roulade, food, Mary Berry, recipe, yule log
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PEANUT BUTTER CHOCOLATE BROWNIES PT.2
Following the previous brownie recipe, I decided to try a different one, this time adding cocoa powder in the hope they would be a bit more gooey. It worked! Ingredients 250g (9oz) unsalted butter, softened 200g (7oz) dark chocolate (over … Continue reading
PEANUT BUTTER BROWNIES PT.1
When I took my first trip to New York, indeed my first trip to the States last year, I discovered Reece’s peanut butter cups and peanut butter m&ms. Amazing! In the UK, the nuts most commonly found in our chocolate … Continue reading
JAMIE’S BLOOMIN’ BRILLIANT BROWNIES
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been very lazy in terms of cooking. For some reason I’ve been feeling really tired and lethargic and not in the mood to spend time cooking or baking and instead I’ve been relying … Continue reading
