DESSERTS
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{Daring Bakers} Decorated Sugar Cookies … these ones are for Rosie!
“Each day is a new canvas to paint upon. Make sure your picture is full of life and happiness, and at the end of the day you don’t look at it and wish you had painted something different.” Author Unknown In Mandy’s words … “For you, it may be back to school; the start of Spring or Autumn/Fall depending where you are in the world; September could also be someone special’s birthday or even the beginning of your favourite sporting season. Whatever happens in your life in September, that’s what I’d like your cookies to be about.” The September 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Mandy of “What…
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CHOCOLATE & CHERRY POTS de CREME … the yolks head home!
“You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” Stephen King If you know a little about me, you might figure out where the egg yolks came from. No mystery here! Of course they came from my quest for feet, and the failure associated with them! And in case you haven’t stopped by before, feel at home, grab some coffee, and join me in my footless saga! In a nutshell, it’s about finding feet in macarons, and then finding a home for the yolks! Macaron madness hits us this time every month and the theme for MacTweets, the macaron obsessed blog that Jamie and I host,…
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Lime Buttermilk Pound Cake
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes Happiness.” Charles Haddon Spurgeo Here’s a cake that makes me H A P P Y! Every baker worth his salt has a bunch of tried and tested favourite pound cake recipes in their collection. Hopefully I’m worth some salt, and I too hold a few favourites amidst a bunch of well thumbed pages in my oldest hand written book. The one that holds top place is this adaptable one from BHG, but it’s one I bake when I feel b-utterly inclined and especially indulgent … because it uses a cup of good sweet butter. It is…
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{Baking} OLIVE OIL WALNUT BROWNIES … darned good bites!
“Other things are just food. But chocolate’s chocolate.” Patrick Skene Catling Can there ever be enough chocolate goodness in our lives? Not a chance, so as promised I’m back with another chocolate recipe. This time it’s Chef Darren Conole’s Olive Oil Brownie recipe that he created for us to sweetly wrap up lunch at the Borges Olive Oil Meet for Food Bloggers and Critics at the Shangri-La Eros Hotel, New Delhi. The banter over lunch that day went from the poor pumpkin which is ever so neglected, to Michelin star chefs and food trends in the UK, and then to the chefs cute as a button toddler who turns his…
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MANGO KULFI … Traditional Indian Ice Cream
“Their’s not to reason why, Their’s but to do and die:” Alfred Lord Tennyson We spend a lifetime teaching the kids not to give in to temptation, not to be unreasonable. That there are lots of things in the world that one would like to do but self restraint is a virtue that needs to be exercised … blah blah blah. After all, we’ve been there, done that … and we know better! The lines from Tennysons ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’, which we studied in school eons ago, flood my mind often, especially the word ‘reason‘! I really do like the lines now. Hated them in school though…
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{Baking} CHOCOLATE PLUM CLAFOUTIS … inspired yet again!
“Food is a central activity of mankind and one of the single most significant trademarks of a culture.” Mark Kurlansky I am fascinated by what Katie ate … what she ate all winter, summer and in the seasons in between! Do I sound obsessed? Well maybe I am, but since the word sounds rather harsh, I shall stick with ‘fascinated‘. You might have guessed. Yes indeed, I have a new favourite blog on the block, and this one is an utterly charming one – What Katie Ate, ‘all the way from Sydney‘; a ‘foodie photography blog’. I discovered her photography quite a while ago googling for pictures for the Daring…