Category: Recipes

scones and jam

Cornish Scones Recipe from Rodda’s – With their Butter & Clotted Cream

Since it has been awhile since I baked anything, and since the lovely people at Rodda’s sent me butter and clotted cream, I decided to make some scones. They have a recipe on their site but I changed it a ...

death by chocolate cocktail

Bacardi Oakheart & Death By Chocolate Cocktail Recipe

With all the holiday parties and gatherings, there are a lot of cocktail recipe searches happening but the problem is, some people then don’t take the time to search out the right spirit for the job. While I love slow ...

Cocktail Recipes from Le Chiffre – Not Just For James Bond To Fight!

South Place Hotel has a brand new cocktail list and while I didn’t get to the event in Le Chiffre, their games room, I wanted to share them here.  Now, most cocktail recipes have measures that are so small I ...

Clas Ohlson Praline

Clas Ohlson Praline & Ganache Truffle Making Kit plus Earl Grey Truffles Recipe

There’s something about getting shiny new kitchen equipment that just fills you with a certain type of joy. That gleaming metal, those foil containers for your finished product, all that potential all tied up in plastic wrapped and boxed items ...

easy chocolate truffles recipe

Easy Chocolate Truffles Recipe

These chocolate truffles are the easiest to make as they do not involve heating anything but they do need to be kept chilled until gifting and have a very short "shelf life". I also published this over on the Good ...

William Curley’s Couture Chocolate Book

This book is visually stunning. It is crammed pack with information and beautiful photography. Not only are the images beautiful but the recipes are accessible.  There are lots of pieces of information in here that will help the novice or ...

Valrhona Encyclopaedia – Cooking With Chocolate

This book is thick and heavy crammed as it is with knowledge.  This book is intended to impart knowledge from the masters to the students of patisserie and chocolate everything they need to know to move their art and craft ...

Toblerone Tricolour Decadent Brownie Recipe

I call these “decadent brownies” because they are extremely chocolaty. I’ve recommended a baking time which gives you a more cakey brownie but just reduce by 3 – 5 minutes for a more fudgy one.   300g unsalted butter 300g dark chocolate – ...

earl grey cupcakes

Love Bakery Earl Grey Cupcake Recipe – from the Cookbook

I got the gorgeous book of cupcake recipes from Love Bakery called "Cupcakes from the Heart" and it was so beautiful I had to bake a recipe for National Baking Week.  I baked these and husband and a friend immediately ...

toblerone shortbread cookies

Toblerone Shortbread Pockets Recipe

I had the opportunity of creating some recipes with Toblerone chocolate and so rather than make just one, I made three.  Today I’m posting one recipe and I’ll post the other two over the next two weeks. This recipe is also ...

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