Chocolate

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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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 Harold McGee’s entry on ice-cream and corn [...]

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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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Hotel Chocolat – My First Ever Product Review

November 19, 2010
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Almost a year since I started this blog with all seriousness and like most bloggers I get approached by product companies but I’ve only decide now to accepted a free product to review.  Why?  Because I buy it anyway. Have been spending my pretty English pound there since a branch in my shopping centre opened [...]

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Chocolate Slabs – The Perfect Christmas Gift

November 19, 2010
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Here it is.  I’ve had this idea now since last year and it has finally made it to fruition.  A few years ago when I saw these type of chocolate slabs in Hotel Chocolat I was immediately drawn to them on the sheer scale of chocolate they contain…greedy guts…you don’t need to tell me…but they [...]

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Bikerboy’s Tiramisu

March 17, 2010
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If I’m ever in a situation such as I accidently knock over Bikerboy’s bike…I’m not saying I have I’m just saying if I ever did when parking the car in the driveway..sort of accidently knocked his bike or perhaps scratched a little…there would very few things I could do to compensate for the immediate broken [...]

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Very Fudgey Chocolate Brownies

March 10, 2010
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I have made these chocolate brownies for a few years and never had reason to look elsewhere for other recipes…I can be loyal like that…the fickle person that I am I can stick to something….there was no need….these provide everything I want in a chocolate brownie, with a high percentage of chocolate they’re very chocolatey [...]

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Zabaglione, Zabaione or Sabayon with Pears

March 3, 2010
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If  you like your puddings to stick to the side of your ribs then make this to go with your sticky pudding as an alternative to cream, just make it less sweet.   If you want the perfect dessert that will deliver a sweet kick at the end of a romantic meal but not get [...]

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Flourless Chocolate Cake Covered in White Chocolate

February 10, 2010
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After the disaster of the honey cake and a few others like the over baked chocolate brownies or over filled apple turnovers that burst in the oven I had the chance to return to one of my all time favourite chocolate cakes; the flourless chocolate cake.  I was making a cake for a neighbour’s birthday [...]

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Mille Feuille For Every Season – strawberries, pears, pineapples, bananas, mango

January 21, 2010
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The title says it all, have the mille fueille any time of year, with any combination of fruit and any cream, traditional custard the crème pâtissière, simple whipped cream, mascarpone and crème fraiche or even chocolate mousse.  Mille feuille in Portuguese, called ‘mile folhas’, a thousand leaves, is very easy to make if buying your puff [...]

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