Chocolate and Baileys Bread and Butter Pudding
This is a recipe I stole and bastardised from a Delia favourite. I’ve fiddled with all the quantities and I do the bread sizing a bit differently, plus I’ve swapped out the rum for Baileys. :) 10 slices of white bread, with the crusts cut off (I actually bought that bread with no crusts designed...
Fudgey Wudgey Brownies
This is one of my favourite ever brownie recipes. It is ever so easy and SO scrumptious – the only challenge is not to eat the whole lot! The real trick with fudgy brownies is the sugar/eggs to flour ratio – you definitely don’t want too much flour. And the most important thing of all...
Mini Banana Chocolate Loaves
I recently bought some mini loaf tins and they are ridiculously cute. I decided to make some mini banana cakes with them, but you can use them for mini lemon drizzles, mini tea loaves, mini anything! The slight bitterness of the chocolate (if you use the good stuff) goes brilliantly with the sweetness of the banana cake,...
Homemade Hazelnut Chocolate Spread
Bingers beware, adapted from a recipe I found on YouTube by PopSugar LivingTV (popsugarliving), this is THE BEST chocolate spread you will ever taste. I am warning you now you will become addicted. Enjoy!!! You will need (To make 1 large jar or 2 and a bit smaller jars): 240g Raw Hazelnuts 70g Unsweetened Cocoa...
Peanut Brownies
A super scrummy twist on an all time favourite! You will need: 8 oz self raising flour 4 oz butter 5 oz sugar 1 oz cocoa 1 egg 1 tbsp vanilla extract 6 oz lightly roasted peanuts 2 tbsp milk (may need more) butter for greasing How to make ‘em: Preheat your oven to 190°c....
Rhubarb and Chocolate Cakes
These cakes are little light vanilla sponges filled with sweet rhubarb and iced with a chocolate ganache topping. I know that ganache is generally made with dark chocolate but as we STILL have Easter eggs on top of the fridge I am loathe to buy more chocolate so bye bye two Smarties eggs, hello lovely...
Chocolate Pots with Cinder Toffee
I remember buying cinder toffee from Darwen market with my Grandpa when I was little – the stuff there was chocolate coated, which you could do with this homemade version too. To stop the cinder toffee melting, the easiest way to do this is by drizzling melted chocolate over the set toffee. Both the cinder...
Big Bad Banana Bread
There seems to be a constant supply of bananas in our fruit bowl that span all vintages; too green to eat to too black to peel plus every stage in between. As mentioned in my post a couple of days ago I don’t like wasting food, so therefore I feel it’s my duty to turn...
Chocolate Caramel Cake
Chocolate and caramel, dangerous. This recipe is adapted from bbcgoodfood. Their original cake does look fun, but I wanted to make something smaller, and with fewer layers. You need 3 sandwich tins (the baby ones, 7″ I believe). Ingredients 225g very soft butter or margarine 225g brown sugar (or muscovado, I have yet to bother trying...
Flourless Chocolate Cake
This is probably the richest chocolate cake I’ve ever tasted but it’s a great treat every now and then! It’s fairly simple to make but can be time consuming. Ingredients: 375g good dark chocolate 250g butter 5 eggs 375g caster sugar chocolate for decoration whipped cream Firstly melt the butter and chocolate over a bain...
Salted Caramel Millionaire’s Shortbread
Millionaire’s shortbread is one of my very favourite little treats. It’s easy to make and it’s wickedly rich, so it’s perfect served in small bite size squares. I am a big fan of salted caramel so I’ve been making it with sea salt for a while now. The sea salt cuts the richness of the...
Easter Nests!
Easter nests are ridiculously easy and they make a super cute treat for Easter! You don’t need any culinary skills at all to make these and they are lots of fun to make with kids. You need: Half a box of shredded wheat (8 biscuits) 150g quality chocolate (I used dark Green & Blacks) 2...
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