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Baking | Wholewheat Dark Chocolate Brownies … one bowl, whole grain, and delicious
Decadent wholewheat dark chocolate brownies just right for this season of indulgence. Wholewheat makes these less 'guilt-ridden', and some olive oil instead of butter convinces you to reach for more. Add some walnuts…
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Coffee & Vanilla Bean Layered Cake …Happy Birthday to me
this is what dreams are made up of. Coffee in a birthday cake has become a quintessential part of my birthday, a flavours that inspires me like no other. Light as air vanilla…
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Baking | Almond Digestive Chocolate Squares & Roasted Garam Masala Chickpeas … Diwali / Holiday Baking
Holiday Baking Fun! These little Almond Digestive Chocolate Squares hit the sweet spot without being too sweet or too buttery. The savoury fare by way of chickpeas came out CRISPY good from the…
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One-bowl Milk Chocolate Brownies ….. with a little food for thought!
You believe in the deliciousness of milk chocolate when you nibble these fudgy, chocolaty, moist milk chocolate brownies! Adapted very minimally from Baking for Friends, Kathleen Kings fresh new cookbook.
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Chocolate-Pear Tea Bread … Love Baking for Friends
Delicate pears, brown sugar and butter come together with dark chocolate chips to make a specially delicious moist and flavourful quick tea bread. A delightful fall special from ‘Baking with Friends‘ by Kathleen…
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No Bake | Date & Prune Chocolate Truffles … truffles on a diet don’t get better than this #festivefood
Healthy, delicious, a power house of energy and guilt free indulgence, truffles on a diet can’t get better than this!
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Baking | One bowl cocoa wholewheat almond brownies … Alice Medrich {#urbandazzle}
Single bowl cocoa brownies. Dark, deep, chewy, moist, chocolaty ... and made with whole grain. Using just whole wheat flour and almond meal instead of plain flour, they turned out to be brownie…
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Almond Chocolate Chip Cupcakes … and getting featured on Femina
‘Cupcakes on the go‘, healthy, requested quite often, good with frosting and good even without. The almond meal adds interesting texture and taste to them.
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Petite Iced Cakes … Coffee Cream, Raspberry Cream & Chocolate Cream
Petite Iced Cajes ... dainty little tea cakes lavished with a vanilla buttercream. Each good to serve four, made with different flavours – coffee, chocolate & raspberry. The flavour possibilities are endless, and…
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Dark Chocolate Mousse, Peach Lime Cooler & Stone Fruit Salad … Summer!
A smooth as silk dark chocolate mousse topped with a balsamic cherry sauce. Seductive make ahead dessert. Also a Peach Lime Cooler & Stone Fruit Salad to fill up these stunning glasses on…
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Coffee Vanilla Chocolate Chip Battenberg … Daring Bakers go ROYALE!
A simple, stunning and delicious traditional British cake. Wrapping it in dark chocolate plastique made it even more special!
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Dark Chocolate Cherry Mousse Cake #lovestonefruit
A dark, rich chocolate cake layered with deep balsamic fresh cherries and satiny smooth dark chocolate mousse. A chocolate celebration dressed up in a lace chocolate collar, more cherries, dark chocolate flakes and…
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Baking| Double Chocolate Fudge Brownies … one bowl brownies!
Hmmm ... one bite, then another and soon the square was gone. These were wonderful indeed. Chocolaty, fudgy, chocolaty, fudgy ... decadent and very indulgent brownies! I would have added chopped walnuts but…
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Baking| Hot Cross Strawberry Chocolate Chip Buns … Happy Easter
Happy Easter Sunday. I have for you light and airy hot cross buns made with a yeasted {eggless] buttermilk dough flavoured with vanilla beans and chocolate chips. A sweet roasted balsamic strawberry reduction…
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Sweet Orange, Roasted Strawberry & Chocolate Buttermilk Rolls … the best of The Pioneer Woman
Sweet Orange, Roasted Strawberry and Chocolate Buttermilk Rolls bursting with the freshness of orange flavour, seduced by deep roasted strawberries and then given the kick of dark chocolate … all oooey, gooey, wonderful.…
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Baking| Blood Orange Macarons with Maple Orange Chocolate Pastry Creme … World Macaron Day
A perfect balance of flavours. Dried blood orange peel macarons with a bitter orange dark chocolate filling, laced with mild flavours of pure maple flakes. Macarons for Mactweets where we are celebrating World…
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Baking| Clementines Butterscotch Brownies … from LA Food Times {Culinary SOS}
Tender, rich and temptingly sweet, Clementine’s butterscotch brownies balance that brown-sugary goodness with a nice hint of salt to make this the perfect treat for almost any occasion.
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No-bake Strawberry Chocolate Cheesecake … Happy International Womens Day!
A nice make ahead dessert with strawberries and chocolate, light and full of flavour.
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Baking| Double Chocolate Dessert Popovers … on the fast track with Daring Bakers
DELICIOUS, gooey and ever-so-chocolaty, these quick popovers are ready in the blink of an eye, well almost! Pop them in as you sit for dinner, and indulge in 'dessert popovers'!
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Dark Chocolate & Orange Panna Cotta
Indulgent and ever so pleasing, a dark chocolate orange dessert offers a match made in heaven. Set in glass goblets to enjoy its visual appeal!
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Strawberry & Kiwi Bavarian Cake with Razzle Dazzle Macarons … Vanilla Bavarian Mousse with Strawberries & Basil
A marriage of flavours and textures, 2 desserts, one basic mousse. Add in some fresh seasonal fruit, top with macarons and you have ... Strawberry & Kiwi Bavarian Cake with Razzle Dazzle Macarons,…
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Baking| Anzac Biscuits … the perfect bite! ‘#comfortfood {eggless}
“We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.” German Proverb Nom Nom Nom … these Anzac Biscuits have to be the best cookies I’ve made in a while, a hurried…
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Chocolate Bavarian Mousse Strawberry Cake … dessert ♥
Chocolate Bavarian Mousse Strawberry Cake... chocolaty, chocolaty and chocolaty ... a delicious luscious cake with the quintessential combination of strawberries and chocolate, complimented beautifully with a light airy chocolate Bavarian mousse.
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White & Dark Chocolate Mousse Dessert with Strawberries … HAPPY 2012!!
A great way to ring in the new year with White and Dark Chocolate Mousse with Strawberries! Delish!
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Dark Chocolate Caramel Oat & Almond Shortbread
This is the season of holiday baking, and only good can come out of the seasons inspiration. Oats + Almonds + Flour + Butter + Brown Sugar = Crisp delicious shortbread. This shortbread…
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Holiday Baking| Vanilla Bean Chocolate Chip Wookies {Waffle + Cookies = Wookies!!}…Pennsylvania Dutch Waffle Cookies
Crisp, unique deliciously unforgettable Pennsylvania Dutch waffle cookies made in minutes in a waffle maker. Versatile too. if you have that waffle maker waiting in the wings, reach out for it, mix the…
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Baking| Dark Chocolate & Strawberry Mini Cloud Gateaus … For #NellysBigDay
These Dark Chocolate & Strawberry Mini Cloud Gateaus were a big hit! Can't go wrong with dark chocolate and strawberries, a pairing made in heaven. These were decadent and festive, almost a gateau…
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Bittersweet Chocolate Orange Strawberry Tart … rich & delicious
Bittersweet chocolate paired with sweet scents of orange zest, topped with strawberries in a Digestive biscuit crust – eggless too. I think this might well be a dessert than can please one and…
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Povitica – Croatian Sweet Walnut Chocolate Bread
Povitica is traditional Eastern European dessert bread served during the holiday season.This walnut version, a Croatian Walnut Bread, is rolled yeast bread made of sweet dough slathered generously with a delicious walnut/chocolate/vanilla filling.…
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Chocolate & Strawberry Cream Cake … Pinktober
Its the PINK time of th year again. Yes indeed, Mr PABs birthday found us celebrating with a Pinktober cake. A simple, moist, delicious cake that can be made ahead. The oil in…
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Double Chocolate Mousse Cookies … #baketogether
Twice baked 'Double Chocolate Mousse Cookies' for #baketogether. They were delicious and very chocolaty; a big hit at home! I did two versions, one with a bittersweet filling, and another with wholewheat oat…
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Black Sesame Macarons with Cherry Chocolate Ganache
Black Sesame Macarons with Cherry Chocolate Ganache ... Black sesame seeds instead of almond meal went into these to experiment macarons for a friend. Sandwiched with a delicious fresh cherry dark chocolate ganache…
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Baking| Chocolate Chip & Tart Cherry Cookies … Enjoying SRC in HKG!
Whats not to love about cookies which contrast the softness of tart cherries with dark chocolate. A one bowl chocolate chip cookie recipe we enjoyed while vacationing.... and a few pics of Hong…
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Baking| Nutella & Fresh Cherries Chocolate Tart … May with Megan @ The Secret Recipe Club
A chocolate tart with a deeply luscious Nutella and chocolate filling, a vegetarian filling, which can be made ahead and is ADDICTIVE! This is my entry for The Secret Recipe Club this May.
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Dessert| Bittersweet Chocolate Marquise with Crème Chantilly & Balsamic Cherry Sauce … when God created mothers!
Dessert for Mothers Day. No bake, make ahead and deeply divine - a Chocolate Marquise with topped with sweetly scented vanilla Crème Chantilly, lavished further with a Balsamic Cherry Sauce ... expect the…
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Espresso Chocolate Chip Cupcakes … Espress-o-love for Mother’s Day!!
These muffins are great for a coffee loving Mum! Nothing like a deep, delicious espresso cupcake to make the day complete. Dark chocolate pairs beautifully with coffee, and IMHO, a creme chantilly topping…
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Delicious Old Fashioned Eggless Chocolate Cake with Balsamic Strawberry & Cream Filling
We loved this cake! It's special because it is a layered cake, EGGLESS, no butter and still deeply decadent and 'chocolaty' moist! I filled it with a balsamic strawberry and cream filling, and…
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No Bake Dessert| Creme au chocolat shots … fudgy, indulgent, deep chocolate creme
This is my fast track version of Crème au chocolat which translates simply into my idea of an indulgent chocolate cream! The basic recipe is quite versatile, and can be easily doubled too.…
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Mousse-a-cotta with Macs in the Air!
A deliicous experiment later, mousse-a-cotta or panna-mousse is what found its way back into these goblets. It found its way into the dwarfs tummies at express speed too! They loved the second fast…
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Baking| Nutella Strawberry Puff Pastry Hearts … ♥World Nutella Day♥
Nutella Strawberry Puff Pastry Hearts ... ♥World Nutella Day♥. Nutella and strawberries offer quintessential seductive pairing; serve them in crisp puff pastry hearts, and I think you'd hit bulls eye! Crisp buttery pastry,…
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Biscuit Joconde Imprime/Entremet … Strawberry & Chocolate; Espresso & Chocolate
A Biscuit Joconde Imprime to wrap around an Entremets dessert. A Daring Bakers challenge done in 2 hues - Strawberry Bavarian Mousse with Chocolate Cream, and Espresso Panna Cotta with Chocolate Cream. Fabulous…
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Delicious Whole Wheat & Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies … goodness of wholegrain!
Whole Wheat & Oat Chocolate Chip Cookies for a healthier 2011! I have always included some whole wheat by default, but was taken aback to see that using whole grains alone, whole wheat…
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Baking | Chocolate Orange Almond Gateau … Sweet beginning to our New Year!
The Chocolate Orange Almond Gateau is wonderful and moist, with a beautiful balance of flavours. Orange, almond and chocolate hang in delicate harmony, each complimenting the other, no overpowering flavours here. Even the…
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Chocolate Creme Brulee … The Le Cordon Bleu Chocolate Bible
Le Cordon Bleu Chocolate Bible is here. This one book is a chocolate lovers dream, a book with recipes you can recreate, and easily so. The instructions are clear and simple. It's not…
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Baking| Cheddar Rosemary Cheese Straws & Chocolate Walnut Fudge … Diwali
“The true essentials of a feast are only fun and feed.” Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. The past week was hectic, like being on a baking express! It was the festival of lights, Diwali,…
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Baking | PINKARONS – MACARONS FOR PINKTOBER
“We’ll drink a drink a drink To Lily the pink the pink the pink The savior of the human race. She invented medicinal compound. Most efficacious in every case.” Brobdingnagian Fairy Tales The…
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Comfort Food – Chocolate Buttermilk Pound Cake… Change is the only constant!
“The only constant is change” Ηράκλειτος /Heraclitus, Greek Philosopher A short while ago I revisited one of my all time favourite cake, the Lime Buttermilk Pound Cake and blogged about it. Was thrilled…
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Stone Fruit Chocolate Clafoutis … with flaxseed!
Stone Fruit Chocolate Clafoutis ... with flaxseed! The fruit got stewed in there, and delicious syrup rose up the sides once the custard was baked making way for delicious desserts!
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Swiss Black Forest Cake … whipping up low fat cream into submission!
“Bakers are born, not made. We are exacting people who delight in submitting ourselves to rules and formulas if it means achieving repeatable perfection” Rose Levy Beranbaum Was missing from bloggerville for a…
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Baking| Chocolate Cherry Muffins … healthy muffins we l♥ve!
“Life is just a bowl of cherries.” Proverb There’s so much to do as always, & so little time. With the kids still at home on vacation, the day gallops by so fast.…
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2 Toned Biscotti – Coffee & Chocolate
“Yield to temptation…it may not pass your way again” Lazarus Long On the 5th of September every year, schools across India celebrate this day as Teachers Day. Every attempt is made to make…
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DARK CHOCOLATE PANNA COTTA…It’s all about the kidz in us!
“I can resist everything except temptation” Oscar Wilde Dark Chocolate Panna Cotta…deeply divine! Foolishly put the question across to the kids, asked them what they love to eat most & nearly got run…
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Citrus Dessert Cake … happiness is a burst of fresh flavour!
'CITRUS' DESSERT CAKE...like a happy sunflower!! Another nice dessert I created from the lemon cake sans sour cream. We had my brother-in-law over for dinner the other day, and as usual, I wanted…
