I’ve been blessed by friends giving me a whole lot of feijoas recently and our kitchen has been churning out lots of dishes with feijoas – feijoa macarons, feijoa jelly and now of course the much awaited chocolate feijoa cake. I must admit, this was my cunning plot to get J to eat feijoas –…
Tag: Ganache
Lemon Lime and Bitters Macarons
I adore the mix of sweet and sour flavours. Think raspberries and chocolate; cherries in a Black Forest cake; passionfruit and white chocolate. The sharpness of an ingredient contrasting with the sweetness and richness of chocolate – very effective in waking up taste buds I would say. Angostura isn’t something one can add to anything….
Whittakers’ 100s and 1000s Macarons
OH what fun when Whittakers released the 100s and 1000s pink coloured white chocolate slabs! I did a 100s and 1000s macaron before with a salted caramel filling and now there is an even easier way. All you do is make your shells, then make the ganache with the chocolate slab and voilĂ , you have…
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…
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