Chocolate

Chocolate Icing for Kids (dairy free)

January 7, 2013
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This dairy-free icing is perfect for kid’s tastebuds or adults who have a sweet tooth.  It’s the chocolate icing I made for my Dairy-free Easy Quick Light Chocolate Cakes here.  You can increase the amount of cocoa powder, turning it less sweet and more of a darker-tasting chocolate. One of the difference when using dairy-free […]

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Muscovado Sugar (unrefined brown sugar) – the difference it can make

November 11, 2012
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What may appear to be a simple baking question I find often brings about a complicated answer, and no, it’s not because I like being particularly nerdy in detail with all things food, it really comes down to baking being a complex area once you start delving into it, honest.  (I’m slightly smiling here as […]

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Easy Quick Light Chocolate Cakes

October 24, 2012
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This is the simplest easiest chocolate cake recipe which makes a very light crumb cake, cheap too as it only uses cocoa powder and vegetable oil and those two ingredients are why the cake is so light. It’s sweet enough for the kids, both the 5 year old and 17 year old have made their […]

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Baked Stuffed Apples in Pastry Dumplings

October 10, 2012
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This is an old fashion way of baking apples.  I have vague memory of seeing apples treated this way in old cookery books but it was Catherine commenting on my site recently who reminded me of this method.  I was talking to Anne about it when she told she bakes cooking apples this way all […]

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Chocolate & Cranberry Loaf

June 3, 2012
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I was reading the chocolate bread recipe in MC’s blog Farine, which reminded me I could make it for allergy kid.  In Gregoire’s bread book, La Boulangerie Baking at Home he has a recipe for a Dark Chocolate and Sour Cherry Bread and I used that recipe to create my own here.  This is made […]

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Dan’s Double Chocolate Lamingtons – too good for lamingtons (dairy-free, soya-free)

April 23, 2012
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The 4 year old asked for chocolate brownies yesterday and I made these instead, she calls herself the “brownie monster” and when I told her I was making chocolate lamingtons not brownies she made that pout face of disapproval but I converted her as soon as I let her try some of the sponge. It’s a moist […]

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Something Missing in the Fabulous Baker Brothers Chocolate Cake Recipe

January 22, 2012
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I made this cake after seeing it on the Channel 4 programme The Fabulous Baker Brothers presented by Tom and Henry, the recipe is here.  It seemed a straight forward flourless chocolate cake, there are quite a few recipes out there including this one on my blog here.  What intrigued me was the end result of […]

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In Search of a Good Dairy-free Brownie…

July 10, 2011
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As the title suggests I’m in search of a dairy-free chocolate brownie recipe.  This is my second try, the first attempt I used my usual chocolate brownie recipe from Green & Black’s book which is laden with butter, I replaced that with dairy-free margarine and under-baked them as normal.  Texture wise they turned out good, […]

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Hazelnut Bread or My Deconstructed Nutella Slice

June 29, 2011
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My first nut loaf using this method of adding a paste was actually a Walnut & Raisin one  (I’ll post that one next) I was so please with the results that I tried a hazelnut version straight away.  It worked really well with both nuts and believe it would work with whatever nut.  To you […]

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Banana, Salted Caramel and px Sherry Parfait

March 6, 2011
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This is a smooth delicious ice-cream and easy to make, banana with a toffee slightly caramelised flavour.  It’s perfect for using up bananas which have past their best, you really want them over-ripe when there’s a high concentration of sugar and the banana flavour will come through strong. The first time I made a banana […]

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Smooth Dark Chocolate Ice-Cream (egg-free)

January 14, 2011
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I made this ice-cream for the first time on New Year’s Eve and it went down well…so well we finished the tub within a few days.  It’s incredibly smooth on your tongue, an intense chocolate fix and has a long finish because it coats your mouth.  It tastes rich due to the high chocolate content […]

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Ice Cream or Sorbet Too Firm in the Freezer?

January 3, 2011
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I’ve been working on this through the holidays, reading up on the problem of homemade ice cream or sorbet becoming rock hard in the freezer.  I don’t know what you were doing the day after Christmas but I had the afternoon off and spent it enthusiastically reading up on ice-cream and corn syrup, researching information […]

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Light Hazelnut Cake – Two Ways

December 20, 2010
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This is a very light hazelnut cake.  I’m in love with this cake.  I’m very happy eating it plain and humble with no make-up, perfect for me with a cup of coffee, the nuttiness of hazelnut comes through with a lovely texture from the not-so-fine ground hazelnuts.  I’ve been wanting to experiment with a chestnut […]

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Salted Caramel Chocolate Truffles

December 3, 2010
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Salted Caramel Chocolates have been on my mind for the last three months, maybe because I had a tin of dulce de leche in the cupboard and wanted to make something suitable for the Christmas holiday.   These chocolates by the way are delicious and I’m speaking as a non-caramel eater, this was also the […]

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Easy Chocolate Truffles

December 3, 2010
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For the little effort of boiling some cream adding chopped chocolate, stir until melted and refrigerate you can make chocolates.  It doesn’t get more complicated than that.  Once your chocolate is set just scoop it out using a teaspoon and roll them in cocoa powder.  It’s incredibly impressive to serve chocolates you’ve made.  Make these […]

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