An easy and delicious recipe for red velvet-inspired hot chocolate with white chocolate whipped cream and red velvet cake crumbs. You all know the old adage, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. It’s true in so many ways, but in following this advice, you also miss the opportunity to make something even better. Hot…
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Browned-butter Chocolate Chip Cookies
Friday. It was really, really rainy on Friday. Gray, dreary, cold. The perfect baking weather. I also happen to be in love with rainy days, so Friday was a gorgeous day. Not only was I enjoying the sound of the rain pattering onto the leaves of the trees, but the grayness also cast a beautiful…
Chocolate Freckle Shortbread Cookies
As I begin to write this post, I’m not really sure where I should actually begin. I wanted to tell you about my week, but it has a mix of happy and quite a lot of sad and I’m not sure where to start. I suppose I should just start a week ago from now,…
Chocolate Cupcakes With Fudge Frosting
Four years ago today, I was sitting in a hospital bed looking at a MasterChef Australia magazine (or perhaps I was Facebooking on my husband’s iPhone 3G) while my brand new baby boy slept beside me. He was my fourth child. I thought throwing another child into the family would be disastrous, but as it…
Rum & Tonka Bean Dark Chocolate Truffles
When Nespresso sent me a parcel full of gourmet ingredients last month to celebrate the launch of Cubania, I didn’t think I’d have any trouble dreaming up recipes to use them in. I presented you with the rum and espresso cloud cake, but after that, life got in the way and the blog went on…
Chocolate Mousse With Rose-Scented Whipped Cream
This post is an entry into the Nuffnang ‘Fresh Recipe’ Network Competition, thanks to BRITA. Check out betterwithbrita.com for inspiration and exclusive recipes by Gary Mehigan. Update – my entry won 1st place in the competition! Hooray! We all have a memory of a food disaster from some point in our lives. When a recipe…
Healthier Chocolate & Peanut Butter Rice Krispies Treats
Earlier this year I had said I was going to try to aim for less sugary things to post about on my blog. I’ve sort of stuck to that resolution, but obviously I’ve had some setbacks! Since posting those all-kinds-of-awesome raspberry coffee brownies last week, I knew I had to finish this week off with…
White Chocolate & Hazelnut Panna Cotta
I recently discovered my old diary from 1992-1994. I was in 8th grade around that time. As I read through every entry, I was blown away; I couldn’t believe I wrote the things I did! Most of the writing was about all the boys I thought were cute, or which of my friends didn’t like…