This chocolate mousse recipe was adapted from Nigella Lawson’s Instant Chocolate Mousse. I’ve found that I need a higher cream to chocolate ratio for a more pourable mixture, resulting in a silky smooth mousse. This is really quite indulgent and melt-in-your-mouth. What I like about this recipe is there is not much waiting time and…
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Chocolate macarons with salted caramel
Chocolate and salted caramel seems to be doing it’s rounds around the www lately. Muffins, cookies, donuts, cakes, ice cream, chocolates and of course, macarons. I wasn’t quite sure what the hype was all about, not until I finally made a batch of salted caramel following a Pierre Herme recipe. It was intended to be…
Black sesame macaron with black sesame chocolate ganache
I decided to make a black sesame ganache to fill my black sesame macarons to see how intense will the overall black sesame flavour be. Follow my black sesame macaron recipe and replace the mascarpone and red bean filling with the following ganache. Black Sesame Ganache 100ml heavy cream 100g semisweet chocolate, roughly chopped 40g…
Chocolate chestnut mini cupcakes
J: mummy can I have a cupcake please? Me: ok (grabs one from the box and gives her one, and walks out of the kitchen) A few minutes later, J came to find me, J: mummy I’ve finished my 2 cupcakes !!! They were delicious! Me: I only gave you one, how did you get…
Matcha green tea macarons with chestnut puree ganache
Right, second go at making these green tea macarons. There are a few things that I have done differently this time: 1) I have now grasped the amount of time needed for the egg whites to become foamy, and need to start whipping it very soon after I start the sugar syrup. I need to…
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