Banana S’mores are utterly delicious and the perfect dessert to make on the BBQ or whilst camping. If you’re in a hurry you can use the microwave! After a recent chat with Christina from Christina’s Cucina we got talking about S’mores, a term I have seen crop up so many times on Twitter courtesy of…
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Black Forest Vanilla Ice Milk
Black Forest Vanilla Ice Milk or Cherry, Dark Chocolate and Vanilla Ice Milk is the perfect icy summer dessert to cool down with! With summer well and truly here refreshment is on everyone’s mind and hot comforting puddings are put on the back burner. One of our favourite summer desserts is “ice milk” as it…
Chocolate Cupcakes
Kids love Chocolate Cupcakes and this delicious recipe is simple enough for them to make! I think grown-ups will be all over them too! I don’t know about your children but whenever mine want to bake it invariably has to involve chocolate! Well I say that, my son has only ever baked one cake at…
Easter Chocolate Granola Cakes
Today I’m sharing my Easter Chocolate Granola Cakes with you! Feeling the urge to do something Eastery with a packet of chocolate mini eggs I had, I pondered upon what I should do with them. The old faithful cupcake sprang to mind but aware of the abundance of recipes for egg adorned Easter cupcakes I…
Blueberry, Banana and White Chocolate Muffins
Blueberry, Banana and White Chocolate Muffins are divinely moist and delicious! For a more fancy version head over to my Blueberry, Banana & White Chocolate Chip Muffins recipe with a white chocolate drizzle! In honour of Mother’s Day, I thought I would bake Blueberry, Banana and White Chocolate Muffins. Having road-tested first with my family,…
Slow Cooker Double Chocolate Speculoos Puddle Pudding
Well, there’s a name that trips off the tongue easily! I could also have mentioned that this pudding is eggless, but I think that would have been a step too far! I used dark and white chocolate but if you wanted to make this pudding suitable for a vegan then you could just use dark…
Chocolate Chip Marmalade Cakes – totally moreish!
Chocolate Chip Marmalade Cakes are deliciously moist cupcakes combining dark chocolate with orange marmalade & finished off with a drizzle of orange icing. When a little bird told me that it was National Marmalade Week (1 – 8 March) I immediately thought of my grandmothers Marmalade Cakes which then lead me to develop these Chocolate…
Chocolate and Pistachio Wreath
Chocolate and Pistachio Wreath Being a food blogger isn’t something I can ever fully switch off from. So when I found myself sitting in a hospital waiting room the other day, I made a bee line for the only food supplement in amongst the magazines. I wish I could tell you which one it was…
Food News – November 2013
Hotel Chocolat It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas so where better to start than with The Festive Wreath from Hotel Chocolat. This milk wreath contains caramelised almond florentines, cocoa biscuits, cocoa cookies and shortbread biscuits. The milk chocolate is made from 50% cocoa so has a really intense cocoa flavour making it almost…
Walnut Mocha Torte
I was listening to a lovely radio interview with my favourite food writer, Nigel Slater the other day where he said his favourite cake was Coffee & Walnut. On telling my daughter she said she loved this cake too – I don’t where she’s had it as I have never made it not being a…