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Marmalade Brandy Snaps with Pumpkin Cream

February 8, 2013

These snaps are delicious, rather than the normal quite sugary snap they have a lovely citrus zing from the sharp marmalade. How strongly they taste of marmalade will depend on the strength of the marmalade. You can fill them simply with a vanilla cream or this pumpkin/squash cream. When eating a slice of the sweeten […]

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How to make Brandy Snaps

February 7, 2013

These biscuits (cookies) are laden with sugar, and it is the high percentage of sugar to ratio of flour they have, the sugar melting and spreading thin, which gives them their characteristic honeycomb-lace appearance. The thinner they are the more delicate and crumbly they become and for me a superior texture to a thick version […]

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Marks & Spencer macarons taste cheap

December 2, 2012

I’ve already stated on the Ladurée macaron post here how I’m not a devotee of the macs but will appreciate the flavour of a good quality one. In the summer when tasting some with Nicola the most memorable flavour combination I had was lime and basil, it worked really well to my surprise. I may […]

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Gabriela’s Oat Cookies: dairy-free, soya-free, egg-free, nut-free

December 10, 2010

These are my 12 year old daughter’s cookies, she makes them all the time and in fact the ones without the raisins on this post are ones she’s made. The difficulty when having to find a recipe for egg-free, dairy-free and other exclusions is to find something that taste as good as normal ones. These […]

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Dark Milk White Chocolate Cookies – Triple Chocolate Cookies

January 7, 2010

OK Forget reading the whole post….I just get sucked into details and go blah blah when I like something. I’m starting this posting back to front, I’ve just read what I’ve posted and it’s rather long. Because I don’t want that to get in the way of anyone trying this recipe, I’m just going to […]

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