It happened to be my work’s third birthday a few weeks ago and in celebration I made these aqua blue macarons and paired them with my all time favourite – salted caramel filling. I might have to make a salted caramel cake next, such is my addition to the salty sweet caramelly flavours. Watch this…
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Black Forrest Macarons with freeze-dried plum powder
I wanted to introduce a secondary crunchy element to my macarons and was toying with the idea when I came across some Cadbury Berry Forrest chocolate. It had jelly and biscuit pieces in the block – perfect! As mentioned in an earlier post I love adding freeze dried powders to macarons. I added plum powder…
Milo Macarons
This one is for the kids. Remember the controlled drink dispensers in the home room at school? I used to put like 6 clicks of milo into the foam cup with a tiny splash of hot water, just enough to form a thick paste. I would have this as an afternoon “pick me up” during…
Massaman Beef Curry
I don’t know about you, but I find that Monday dinners are the hardest to get on the table, fast. Coming home from a full day’s work after a relaxing weekend – it’s hard to get back into the routine and I’m always in a rush to prepare anything decent. What I’ve found to work…
Chocolate hazelnut mousse entremet
“What’s more delicious than a pot of velvety chocolate mousse?” I asked J, my 5 year old daughter. She looked puzzled, not that she didn’t understand me, but that it was already quite up there on her ‘best food moments’ list I think. “One decorated with all sorts of chocolatey bites and pearls, perhaps?” I…
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