What’s Your Guilty Pleasure

Regardless of our refined our tastes may be, we all have a few guilty pleasures. Foods that we just love even though we know we shouldn't. I am very much against processed food, but there are some to which I just can't seem to shake my addiction! I h (read full article)

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Best Brownies

I have a good friend to thank for this recipe for brownies. A decent brownie is a very special thing and so often I find when I buy brownies they are either far too sweet of dry and spongy (basically like a chocolate cake). These brownies are dense, (read full article)

baking, brownies, Chocolate, cooking, food, recipe, Walnuts

Chocolate Almond and Fig Clusters

This is the perfect snack, the chocolate is the 70% cocoa kind, so less calories and the almonds and dried figs are sweet, crunchy and very good for you.Melt your chocolate 100 gram chocolate bar in a bowl over hot waterWhen melted add enough almond (read full article)

almonds, Chocolate, cooking, Figs, food, recipe, Sweet

Since I live in the Southern Hemisphere, you would imagine that hot chocolate is not the best choice for the time of year being as it is hot and humid. However it is also the rainy season and when it rains it definitely cools down and then hot chocol (read full article)

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Treacle Chocolate Ice cream

My previous attempt at ice cream was not too successful, I lost patience with having to stir it regularly for hours to break up the ice crystals so it became too hard and the flavours weren't right. To be honest, this is second try is not really ice- (read full article)

Chocolate, Condensed milk, cooking, Dessert, food, Ice-cream, recipe, treacle