For her 6th birthday, J requested a Disney Frozen-themed party. A search on the internet quickly gave me links to templates for invites: you can print them from here. For the cake: I decided on a fondant covered cake for its ease in transport and also in decoration. Theme colours were purple and teal, which…
Tag: Chocolate
Salted caramel chocolate cake with brandy ganache
Wow that was a mouthful, but trust me this is an easy cake, done in 2 hours. I don’t normally believe in ‘one-pan’ cakes but this turned out to be the most amazing cake I have done in a while (those who got to eat it loved it). The cake is adapted from Annabell White’s…
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…
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…
Maltesers slice
Finally, a recipe that ticks all (almost) the boxes for J to do by herself. With the exception of handling the hot melting ingredients, she did these by herself. I’m so proud! Ingredients 100 grams butter 400 grams dark chocolate 1/2 cup condensed milk 250 grams digestive biscuits (finely crushed) 250 grams maltesers (enough to…
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