Easy to make muffins using protein powder for a great post or pre workout snack
Chocolate and Raspberry Protein Muffins (Vegan)
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Sourdough Brownies
Decadent and fudgy brownies to use up sourdough starter discard. Easy to make and not too sweet.
Little Chocolate Mousse Meringue Cups
I like making little treats. You can have one and feel totally sated rather than denying yourself completely. Good strategy huh? That’s how these little chocolate mousse meringue cups came about. I was craving something fancy and chocolatey. But I had a full medical assessment recently and was also hearing the words of the […]
Chocolate Scrabble Biscuits
Do you play Scrabble? My husband and I have been playing for over 20 years. Sometimes cards and sometimes Scrabble. The score sheets are so old that we don’t bother anymore. In fact now the challenge is less about points but rather about the best word. Last Christmas I got some lovely Scrabble biscuit cutters. […]
Easter Egg Overload?
Are you fed up of chocolate yet? I’m not but I’m getting there. Even my girls couldn’t finish their stash yesterday. There is a bowl of odd bits of shell and Lindt Bunny bottoms. I know it will all get eaten but it’s nice to have the excess to do a bit of baking with. This […]
Recipe – (Boozy) Beetroot Truffles
Having had such a bounty of beetroot at our allotment again, I’ve been experimenting with sweet as well as savoury dishes. This creation was a real quickie I discovered with some leftover cooked beetroot we had in mash the other day. I was about to put it into a chocolate brownie mixture as that was the obvious thing […]
Chocolate And Hazelnut Tarts With Haagen Dazs Coffee Ice Cream
There is something rather therapeutic about baking pastry. It’s the stages I think. Making the dough, chilling the dough, rolling out the dough and finally baking. The stages fit rather well with my running schedule. I’m running for Action Against Hunger in the 2016 Virgin London Marathon. I’ve started training now because I’m a slow […]
Famgethers And Chocolate Brownies For Valentine’s Day
My youngest daughter seems very excited about Valentine’s Day. She’s been talking about it all week. To her it’s all about ‘famgether’. This is a silly word our family made up one holiday. It means ‘family together’. Silly I know but it creeps into conversations when we haven’t seen each other consistently for a while. […]
Edible Gifts For Christmas
Hasn’t Christmas come around so quickly this year? I know all the advertising kicks off as soon as the summer sales have finished but I cannot believe we have just this weekend left to buy gifts. Our list always includes edibles – some shop bought and some home made. Here is some inspiration if you’re […]
Roasted Cashew and Chocolate Nut Butter
My daughters love peanut butter. I love peanut butter! But aside from one particular brand (Whole Earth) there are too many nasties in commercially made peanut butter so every now and then it’s nice to make your own. This recipe just has just a few ingredients.
Chocolate Madelines
It’s Chocolate Week in the UK and what a chocolatey week it has been. I have been using every excuse to eat as much chocolate as possible. And why not?! It contains endorphins – those lovely little feel good hormones and I need a few thousand of those at the moment with all the cold […]
An Interview With Paul A Young – Chocolatier
I’ve been a huge fan of Paul A Young since he opened his first shop in London in 2006. The flavours of his chocolates always create a sense of intrigue and live up to their descriptions. My favourite is still the Margarita which I had at his Wardour Street store about two years ago. Every […]