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I do not want to know who won Master Chef Australia 2017 so I asked my sister to send me the recipe for the Chocolate Soufflé Sponge that Anna Polyviou made. This formed part of the firecracker pressure test. I have saved the entire recipe as I want to make other components from the challenge. Head straight … Continue reading Recipe For Chocolate Soufflé Sponge
Using 4 ingredients, including my own home made nut butter I came up with a healthy chocolate drink. This is perfect for me to enjoy after a training session at gym. Head straight on to the Recipe For Healthy Chocolate Drink ♥ I wonder if brands realize how much it costs a blogger in ingredients? … Continue reading Recipe For Healthy Chocolate Drink
I was inspired to make these Gluten-Free Soft Chocolate Cookies after watching Harry Foster make brookies for Nigella Lawson. They are cookies with a brownie texture. Head straight on to the Recipe For Gluten-Free Soft Chocolate Cookies ♥ Given years of poor infrastructure maintenance and bad choices the Western Cape is in a dire situation … Continue reading Recipe For Gluten-Free Soft Chocolate Cookies
As we will be away for Easter I decided to make chocolate hot cross buns a little bit early in the month. They were sticky and sweet and a little bit non-traditional. Head straight on to the Recipe For Chocolate Hot Cross Buns ♥ I recently entered a competition to win a trip to London. … Continue reading Recipe For Chocolate Hot Cross Buns
I really like the fact that my Chocolate Angel Food Cake is fat free. It means I can enjoy more than one slice at a time, ignoring how much sugar actually goes into it. Dave and I devoured this cake in 24 hours. Head straight on to the recipe for Chocolate Angel Food Cake ♥ A … Continue reading Recipe For Chocolate Angel Food Cake
Head straight on to the recipe for Chocolate Pudding ♥ I had a desire to be bathed in this chocolate wonder when I first tasted it at Perdeberg. It is everything you want from a dessert and if you only make one thing from this blog this year, make this! You will thank me once you have … Continue reading Recipe For Chocolate Pudding
This gelato is reminiscent of candied oranges dipped in chocolate. The texture is amazingly smooth and it is packed full of orange flavour with rich chocolate. Head straight on to the recipe ♥ A few months ago we went for a casual dinner with friends to Arugula and I chose my entire meal around what was on … Continue reading Recipe For Chocolate And Orange Gelato
These crunchy oat biscuits make for a great tea time treat. If you want to keep them healthy for lunch box snacks then leave the chocolate topping off the biscuits. Head straight on to the recipe ♥ The words crunchy and oats take me back to when I spent time at my grandmother's house. She made the best ever … Continue reading Recipe For Crunchy Oat Biscuits
I believe fully in eating whole foods and not eliminating any one food group, unless totally necessary. For those of you who have followed this blog for a long time, you will know that I am sucrose intolerant. For ease sake, I use the term sugar free when I don't use sucrose in a recipe. I … Continue reading Recipe For Raw Cheesecake
A lot of people are intimidated my the idea of making soufflés but hopefully these tips and the recipe for Chocolate Soufflé will encourage you to try and make your own! Making soufflés is easier than you think and the results are brilliant. Just follow this advice and have confidence that all will work out! Do … Continue reading Recipe For Chocolate Soufflés
When I get a book to review, I choose the recipes I would like to make, or that interest me, based on their titles alone. The actual recipes I make are chosen by the publisher, after I submit a request. I was sent Sweet to review and Struik Lifestyle gave me permission to make and blog Sam's … Continue reading Recipe For Cocoa Dusted Amaretti Biscuits
I have been a chronic insomniac for my entire adult life. I can remember not getting any sleep for nights on end, and then collapsing into such a deep slumber. I would never wake refreshed from these sleeps and it took me years to find a solution for my insomnia. I find that lavender cream … Continue reading Recipe For Genoese Sponge
We work in an office park, with limited parking for every unit. As we rent two units alongside each other, we have a lot of parking available to us. This is for all the cars - the ones we drive and the ones Dave works on (racing cars!), as well as space for visitors and … Continue reading Recipe For Rum Truffles
Larousse Gastronomique (page 598) defines a lamington as 'a small Australian cake, made from a square of sponge coated in chocolate icing and dipped in dessicated coconut' (abbreviated). The cakes are named after Lord Lamington who was the governor of Queensland from 1896-1901. The idea is to soak sponge in a chocolate sauce and then … Continue reading Recipe For Lamingtons With A Twist
I was having tea with a friend the other day and we were having a chat about all sorts of things. Her response to one of my statements was "oh, that is so random". Used informally, this means unknown. I prefer to use the word to mean out of place. Since that conversation, the word random … Continue reading Recipe For Cookies And Cream Ice Cream
They say that change is as good as a holiday, and so after more than 20 years of making the same granola recipe I decided to change things, but only slightly. This Toasted Muesli is the result! Dave and I are really creatures of habit when it comes to breakfast. Every morning when we arrive at … Continue reading Recipe For Toasted Muesli
When we were younger, my sister and I lived next door to 2 boys who were the same age as we were. We would climb the wall between our houses to play and sometimes we would even play ball games over the wall. I remember spending a lot of time with them having fun. We … Continue reading Recipe For Chocolate Candies
B-well sent me a bottle of their extra virgin olive oil and canola oil mix to try out. I use olive oil every day for my cooking and canola oil for my mayonnaise and salad dressing. I tried the oil in my mayonnaise but the olive oil taste is far too distinct for my palate. … Continue reading Recipe For Olive Oil Cake
It seems my blog has a small problem. My post for Sunday did not push itself through and my saved post for Choc Chip Scones published in the unedited format. So, this is the one that was meant to be live yesterday! Thank you Mandy for the heads up! This year for International Scone Week hosted … Continue reading Recipe For Choc Chip Scones
I cannot get enough of the barley malt syrup and decided that an ice cream would be next on my agenda. Greg who is the chef at Waterkloof has provided me with a lot of inspiration for ice cream flavours. He is a chef I respect and admire and he has given me his recipes to try out at home. … Continue reading Recipe For Bitter Chocolate Malt Ice Cream