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Well, if you’re going to make a chocolate cake, you may as well push the boat out right? Wrong. At heart I love truly simple things: choc-chip cookies, chocolate with no nuts, no caramel, no nougat, chocolate sponge cake with buttercream icing or maybe just whipped cream. My favourite pizza is even plain ol’ cheese [...]

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Chocolate Week Day 5 – The Muffins

Posted in Baking, Blogging Events, Chocolate Week, tagged Baking, Blogging Events, Chocolate Week, Healthy, Muffin Monday on October 17, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Winter is drawing rapidly closer – the clocks are due to fall back and it will soon be dark when I leave work – my desire to cook good wholesome food seems to be an all time high. I am so excited about the impending winter events, Halloween (celebrated by the ancient Celts as part [...]

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Chocolate Week Day 4 – The Orangettes

Posted in Baking, Chocolate Week, Confectionary, Gluten Free, tagged Chocolate Week, Confectionary on October 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »

You didn’t really see that one coming, did you?
OK, so whilst Orangettes are not one of the first recipes that spring to mind when you think chocolate, they are charmingly pretty with their orange stained glass peel and their dipped velvet chocolate peplums…I couldn’t resist them.
Orangettes, whilst time consuming to produce, are a simple [...]

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Chocolate Week Day 3 – The Brownie

Posted in Baking, Childhood Favourites, Chocolate Week, Masterclass, tagged Baking, Chocolate Week, Masterclass on October 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Chocolate Brownies. Possibly the most perfect of all the ways to indulge in Theobroma Cacao. The chocolate hit in a well made brownie is so strong it can feel like you’ve just downed three double espressos in less than 10 seconds flat.
And there’s the non-prep side of things. It takes no time at all to [...]

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Chocolate Week Day 2 – The Truffle

Posted in Chocolate Week, Confectionary, Gluten Free, Masterclass, tagged Chocolate Week, Confectionary, Truffles on October 14, 2008 | 5 Comments »

If the genuine truffle is the sheer essence of the earthy fungus, then a chocolate truffle must be the absolute peak of all that is chocolatey. Even the simplest of all chocolate truffles, cream, butter and melted chocolate tossed in the darkest, smokiest cocoa powder, is a treat to behold. The velvety touch of the [...]

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Chocolate Week Day 1 – The Cookie

Posted in Baking, Childhood Favourites, Chocolate Week, Masterclass, tagged Baking, Chocolate Week, Masterclass on October 13, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Today marks the official start of Chocolate Week, an auspicious observation of all things chocolately. You may ask “why devote a whole week to chocolate”? I would quickly answer: a week is not long enough to explore every facet of the world’s favourite confectionary. There a literally hundreds of brands of chocolate bars, some candy, [...]

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