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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 best!
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Baking| Pebbly Beach Fruit Squares … charming cookies for Mothers Day!
“If you can laugh at it, you can live with it.” Erma Brombeck Happy May! There was a time when as kids we would go around shrieking May Daaaaaay May Daaaaaay on the 1st of May, giggling stupidly at the SOS call. By the time history classes began, May Day was synonymous with Labour Day, where we studied labour relations, about the ILO etc, and life began to get mundane. May’s here and the only thought that tears through my mind is ‘ALREADY?’ Are we really almost halfway through the year?Life has been a roller coaster ride of late which might sort of explain why I’ve been a bit slow…
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Whipped Strawberry Curd Cream Tartlets with Walnut Shortbread Crust
A delightful light summer berry tart with a walnut shortbread crust, and a whipped strawberry curd cream to fill the crust! A new twist to lemon curd, and we loved it!!
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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 slathered it with a deep decadent chocolate ganache using a 65% dark chocolate - divine!
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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. I like it because it can be made in advance. Also, desserts in glasses always appeal to me. They make a bold, crisp statement, and allow for contrasting pairing that you can show off. Serve it with either fresh seasonal fruit and herbs, with amaretti cookies, or paired with vanilla bean macarons. Then again, spike it with your favourite cherry liquor and serve with juicy bing cherries, or give it an espresso kick … the possibilities are…
