Chocolate & Pistachio Mousse is delicious, intensely chocolaty mousse with added pistachio paste – a match made in heaven! At Christmas time (or whenever you are entertaining) you want as little stress and fuss in the kitchen as possible. So a great great dessert is one you can prepare ahead and just pull out of…
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Neapolitan Marzipan Chocolates
Neapolitan Marzipan Chocolates are the perfect festive gift for the marzipan lovers in your life! These home-made marzipan chocolates are so incredibly delicious, you’ll be swamped in compliments (if you can bare to part with them that is)! I have a confession, I am addicted to marzipan as well as chocolate! So when I…
Christmas Coffee Truffles
Christmas Coffee Truffles, heavenly chocolates made with quality dark & milk chocolate, double cream and barista style instant coffee. Watch your friends’ amazement when you tell them you made these! Christmas is a time of giving and what better way to show your loved ones how much you appreciate them than by making them something…
Salted Caramel Crunchie Ice Cream
Salted Caramel Crunchie Ice Cream is lush dairy salted caramel ice cream studded with honeycomb and chocolate from the Crunchie bars. This ice cream is simply heavenly! Faced with a carton of double cream that was fast approaching its use-by date I knew the best way of preserving it was to make ice cream. That…
Rocky Road Fudge
Rocky Road Fudge is milk chocolate and marshmallow fudge studded with biscuit pieces and decorated with more marshmallows and chocolate chips – simply heavenly! Today I’m sharing Rocky Road Fudge! My last dalliance with fudge was over a year ago and was a resounding flop. I didn’t own a digital thermometer back then so when…
Spiced Almonds
Spiced Almonds – roasted with chilli, cayenne pepper, Tamari and a little sugar for a hint of sweetness. Seriously addictive and perfect for entertaining. Do you have a bucket list of dishes that you’ve never made and keep meaning to get round to? I do and one such dish (or should I say snack) was…
20 Fab Recipe Highlights for my 3rd Anniversary
I can’t believe that my blog is 3 years old today. I seem to have come such a long way since I started. When I posted my first recipe it was a very relaxed affair and I even over cooked my soup as I’d left it on the hob whilst on the school run –…
Turkey Meatloaf & ActiFry Roast Potatoes
I’d been toying with the idea of a Christmas meatloaf recently (although hubby insists it was his idea)! So, as shops are awash with sausage meat, bacon and turkey right now I decided to make an all in one Christmas style Turkey Meatloaf – there’s even sage and onion stuffing and cranberry sauce in it!…
Christmas Soda Bread
Today I’m sharing my Christmas Soda Bread! December is such a busy time and what with my birthday, a wedding, my daughter’s numerous school performances, my son’s various exams and his trip to the Cologne Christmas markets, I’m afraid my Christmas recipe offerings have had to stay as ideas in my head until now. (Note…
Just Ingredients – 10 Ways to Spice up your Christmas
December is finally here and if you have children they were no doubt excitedly opening their Advent Calendars this morning like mine were! For us grown-ups though, it’s time to be thinking about what we’re going to be making in the kitchen this Christmas. With that in mind Just Ingredients have come up with this…