chocolate Chocolate And Mint Shortcake I’ve never made shortbread before and I had never realised how easy it was. These shortbreads have three layers – the shortbread itself, some fondant icing and a chocolate top. Each layer has to rest before the next, but they did bond well. This recipe lends itself to all kinds
brownie Coconut And Raspberry Brownie Here’s a truly superb recipe for brownies and if cooked carefully, can yield the kind of cake that’s crispy on the outside and gooey on the inside – which as we all know is the best kind Ingredients 185g Dark chocolate (85%) 185g Unsalted butter 3 Eggs 275g Golden
buckwheat Puffed Buckwheat Bites These little cakes are a little bit like rice krispy cakes or maybe more like sugar puff cakes but without the sugar. They are made with puffed buckwheat, which I found in Holland & Barrett and I have been adding it to my cereal, but saw a recipe using rice
banana Banana & Chocolate Loaf This really is a cake rather than a bread I think. Loosely, a banana loaf, but the way it’s made makes it a cake. Still, it used up some over ripe bananas! Banana Loaf Ingredients 3/4 Ripe bananas 100g Butter 160g Brown sugar 2 Eggs 227g Self-raising flour
chocolate Junkyard Flapjack This flapjack I made is basically a mix of going-out-of-date chocolate, biscuits, some cake ingredients. It’s still based on oats, but there’s a deep chocolate taste and now it’s baked, they tend to last a long time in a tin.
avocado Chocs Away Going a bit mad with the experiments, I decided to make chocolate and banana chip bread. I used spelt flour for a change and added an avocado instead of butter. The chocolate was provided via a dark chocolate spread from Whole Earth. Chocolate & Banana Bread Chocolate & Banana Bread
avocado Spelt Bread Spelt Bread made with avocado Plain Spelt Chocolate & Banana Chip Cashew & Raisin
BREAD Chocolate This week was different, I came by a recipe for a pain au chocolate recipe and although it wasn’t bread exactly, the dough seemed pretty similar. The key difference was that this dough had a whole block of butter in it. It made the dough very difficult to work
Beans Espresso Truffles These are cheeky little numbers, deep and dark chocolate truffles with a shot of punchy arabica coffee, from Hotel Chocolat.
Beer Something Different It’s a beer and it has chocolate! It was a dark brew, tasting quite stout like but definitely had a tone of dark chocolate. Not something I could drink a lot of, but well worth trying. Meantime Brewery are based in London in Greenwich.
