Posted in Baking, Brownies, Chocolate, Maltesers, tagged baking, brownies, chocolate, maltesers 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…)
Posted in Baking, Biscuits/Cookies, Chocolate, tagged biscuits, chocolate, cookies 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…)
Posted in Baking, Chocolate, Sweets (fudge, truffles and candy), tagged baking, chocolate, fudge 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…)
Posted in Bananas, Dessert, Leftover ingredients, Pie, tagged banoffee pie, chocolate, dessert, pie on July 24, 2011| 2 Comments »
Yep. Chocolate. Banoffee. Pie. Look at it. Don’t you just want to stick your face in it? Well, you shouldn’t. You’d have cream all over your face! It would be much more sensible to eat it with a spoon. (more…)
Posted in Baking, Chocolate, Dessert, Mousse, tagged chocolate, chocolate mousse 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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