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Toffee brownies

Posted in Baking, Brownies, Chocolate, Toffee/Caramel, tagged , , on September 18, 2011| 12 Comments »

Are you a fan of fudgy brownies or cakey brownies? Honestly, I don’t even class cakey brownies as brownies. They are cakes. Small square cakes. But these, these are brownies. Lovely, fudgy toffee brownies. (more…)

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Dark chocolate and strawberry swiss roll with white chocolate custard

Posted in Baking, Chocolate, Double cream, Egg yolks, Strawberries, Swiss roll/roulades, tagged , , , , on August 30, 2011| 16 Comments »

This started life as a jam and white chocolate roly poly. My Good Food magazine came with a yummy looking dessert on the front and I took it round to Mum’s house to show her. “That looks nice”, she said, “what’s in it?”. “Well, it’s got suet in it…”. This was thoroughly rejected. So I decided to turn it into swiss roll instead. (more…)

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Truffles and chocolates: Daring Bakers’ challenge

Posted in Baking, Chocolate, Sweets (fudge, truffles and candy), tagged , , , on August 27, 2011| 10 Comments »

When I started this blog, I decided I’d join the Daring Bakers. I love trying new recipes, but it’s not very often that I make something which is a big challenge, partly because I don’t have the patience and partly because I’m worried it’ll go wrong. I’ve always, always, always loved the idea of making chocolates, but it always seemed like a right faff, so this month’s challenge gave me the push I needed to finally have a go.

Blog-checking lines: The August 2011 Daring Bakers’ Challenge was hosted by Lisa of Parsley, Sage, Desserts and Line Drive and Mandy of What the Fruitcake?!. These two sugar mavens challenged us to make sinfully delicious candies! This was a special challenge for the Daring Bakers because the good folks at http://www.chocoley.com offered an amazing prize for the winner of the most creative and delicious candy! (more…)

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Cheat’s Maltesers fudge

Posted in Baking, Chocolate, Maltesers, Sweets (fudge, truffles and candy), tagged , , , on August 25, 2011| 7 Comments »

 

Malteser fudge

Hands up if you love Maltesers! *puts both hands up* (more…)

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Malteser brownies

Posted in Baking, Brownies, Chocolate, Maltesers, tagged , , , on August 9, 2011| 2 Comments »

Dear Maltesers

If I crush you up and bake you in brownies, are you still the lighter way to enjoy chocolate? Please say yes.

Yours sincerely (yeah, I know the letter writing rules)

Julia

P.S. Please can you hide from Chris when he approaches the sweets cupboard, otherwise he eats all of you and I am sad. Hide behind the Pringles, I don’t like those. (more…)

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Chocolate melts, the easiest, peasiest biscuits ever

Posted in Baking, Biscuits/Cookies, Chocolate, tagged , , on August 7, 2011| 6 Comments »

These are chocolatey and melty-ey, especially in this weather (thanks for the help with the introduction, Mum!). They take about five minutes to throw together (after an initial panic about the dough never turning into dough) and twelve minutes to cook. Then you can cover them in melted chocolate and proceed to stuff your face, growling at anyone who attempts to approach the plate of biscuits. (more…)

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Chocolate and butterscotch stripy fudge

Posted in Baking, Chocolate, Sweets (fudge, truffles and candy), tagged , , on July 30, 2011| 2 Comments »

Look! Fudge! I made this! With a sugar thermometer! It was stressful. But yummy. And now I can check it off my to do list. Hurray! (more…)

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The best chocolate mousse, or what I remember from high school french

Posted in Baking, Chocolate, Dessert, Mousse, tagged , on July 9, 2011| 2 Comments »

My mum is brilliant at languages; she speaks pretty good French and German. My dad was fluent in Italian. My sisters have also managed to pick up the languages they were taught at school to an impressive standard. But the language gene seems to have skipped me, because the only things I remember from language lessons at school are the german for “round the corner” (“um die Ecke”!) and the recipe for this chocolate mousse. (more…)

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