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Chocolate Orange Panettone
Panettone isn’t difficult to make but it does take a while – not actual work mind just a lot of waiting about!
Marble Cake and a lesson in cake making!
Sometimes you just can’t beat the old favourites – Marble Cake is exactly that, it’s not complicated or difficult just delicious!
Ingredients:
200g butter
200g caster sugar
150g self raising flour
50g plain flour
4 eggs
3 tbsp cocoa powder
Preheat the oven to 180c/160cFan/350F/Gas Mark 4
Grease and line an 8″ round cake tin.
Toffee Pecan Ring – August Bake It! Club
This recipe comes from Amy Lane’s August Bake It! Club. Since filming for The Great British Bake Off finished I have really missed baking with a whole bunch of great people. This is the next best thing – Amy Lane’s Bake It!
Ruth’s Chocolate Truffles – as seen on The Great British Bake Off
I love making truffles and love giving them to everyone too, they’re a great crowd pleaser and they disappear as fast as lightening!
After a lot of trial and error I think I can give you the lowdown on the easiest way to make truffles
Ingredients:
300g plain or milk chocolate
200ml double cream
2 tbsp liqueur
To decorate:
200g plain or milk chocolate
plus white chocolate for drizzling, edible glitter or edible stars (these are optional but give the truffles a bit of pizzazz!)
Chocolate and Peanut Butter Bars
In my last post I promised you a treat and here it is, Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars – delicious straight from the fridge -I dare you to only eat one!
Ingredients:
Cookie Dough
180g dark brown sugar
125g butter
1 egg
200g plain flour
20g malted drink powder (Ovaltine)
50g cocoa powder
3/4tsp salt
2/4tsp bicarbonate of soda
Peanut Butter Filling
250g icing sugar
4 tbsp peanut butter (crunchy or smooth whichever you prefer)
25g butter
100g marshmallows
200g milk chocolate
Preheat the oven to 180c/160c Fan/350F/Gas Mark 4
Begin by making the cookie dough base.
Chocolate & Chai Biscotti
I think the world has been keeping a secret from me – Chai tea! Have you tried it? A chai latte has become my favourite treat. I think its one of the most delicious new things I have tried in ages.
Chocolate & Pomegranate Cupcakes
These are a delicious new take on the chocolate cupcake.
The addition of pomegranate adds a subtle fruitiness and gives the chocolate a new edge. Star of the show are the pomegranate seeds sprinkled on the tops glistening like jewels. (I’m a sucker for glitter!)
Black Forest Berry Brownies
Here’s something super special and super easy to bakeBlack Forest Berry Brownies
Ingredients:
200g Dark Chocolate (Bournville works really well and won’t break the bank either)
140g Butter
225g Sugar
2tsp Vanilla Extract
2 Eggs
1 Egg Yolk
85g Plain Flour
200g Frozen Black Forest Fruit Berries (Sainsburys)
You will need a baking tray with deep sides approx.
Chocolate Pudding Teacups
Okay, I admit it, I’m obsessed with vintage teacups! For some girls its shoes, handbags but of late for me its lovely pretty little tea sets. I can’t pass the charity shop and leave a set looking lonely and forlorn in the window and although I drink a lot of tea I’m more of a mug kind of girl.
